Sacred Scripture says that Phinehas was justified by works, just as Abraham was (James 2:21-22 below): Psalms 106:30-31 (RSV) Then Phinehas stood up and interposed, and the plague was stayed. And that ...

Our Protestant brethren say that one is justified by faith once for all and not at all by works. Catholics say that initial justification is “monergistic” (not involving our work to attain it) and by ...

Last Friday we looked at the biblical truth called justification by faith. From a 19th-Century American statement of faith, “The New Hampshire Confession,” we saw three ways that being justified ...

The doctrine with which we are concerned is both the divine heart of the Gospel and the Gospel for the human heart. To seek an answer to the question, How can a man be just before God? is to be ...

Both traditions can appreciate Luther’s famous dictum as a recovery, not a discovery. Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, famously broke with the Roman Catholic Church, ...