Is Justification by Faith Taught in the Old Testament?
Justification is the act of God declaring a sinner righteous before Him.
But first why is this question important:
This question is important if one believes in the continuity between the Old and the New Testament.
This question is also important if one believes that Christianity has its root in the Jewish Scripture.
Moreover if you love the truth that God has justified sinners by faith, you will appreciate that this was always God’s intention.
This is also helpful for Jewish evangelism and apologetics to the Jews.
It is useful for doctrinal apologetics of Christianity.
I have found Paul in Romans 4 to be quite insightful of his argument from the Old Testament in which he argues and defends the thesis that the doctrine of justification by faith has Old Testament roots.
For this post we will look at Abraham in Genesis. Specifically we will look at Paul’s argument concerning Abraham and you will notice in Romans 4 that Paul’s argument was faithful to the context of Genesis.
Book Review: Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians Martin Luther by Theodore Graebner
Posted in Bible, Bible Commentary, Book of Galatians, Book Review, Christianity, Martin Luther, Reformed, Salvation & Justification, Theology, tagged Galatians, Martin Luther on December 26, 2012| 7 Comments »
After reading the Bible, every Christian should at least one time in their life read something by Martin Luther to understand the man who has been responsible for the Protestant Reformation and the issue of justification that was at stake. Luther’s commentary of Galatians was a delightful read. I was surprised that there was not a strong polemical taste to this work but instead one feels the pastoral heartbeat of Luther as he expounds the meaning of the text and often showing how a promise in Galatians should be applied to combating wrong thoughts and demonic discouragement. Again, a delightful read, but more than reading the words of Martin Luther this commentary made me read more carefully on my own the book of Galatians itself.
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