Where we go from unable to save himself by going to the comic justice by law, to justice "charged" ... declarative
Captives of a corrupt time Participants and actors in a corrupt time, one thing is clear: no market that the finding of this captivity into the claim to truth. But there
sketched the outcome. Acknowledge, confess the inevitability of this captivity, recognize his own captivity in a lie is an anchor the truth!
Now Christ died at this time corrupt and unfair, unjust until his false words, and he was relieved by his resurrection to new life radically, being beyond death.
A moment that reveals the righteousness of faith: nothing in me that does not fall this time in corrupt side of death, there is no salvation in death at this time, its pretensions and its lies, to receive salvation only to God - Romans 1: 17: "The just shall live by faith" (Habakkuk 2, 4).
Romans 3 4 [...] God be true and every Human liar, as it is written:
that thou mayest be found right in your words and you
triumphs in your trial.
10 As it is written:
There is none righteous, no not one.
11 There is no sensible man, not one who seeks God.
12 They are gone astray, all perverted
not one who does good, not even one.
13 Their throat is an open tomb;
their language they sow deception;
venom of asps is under their lips; 14
their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
15 feet are quick to pay blood;
16 ruin and misery are in their paths;
17 and the path of peace they do not know. 18
no fear of God before their eyes!
19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be closed and that the world may become guilty before God. 20
Therefore no one will be justified in his sight by works of the law and the law, indeed, does the knowledge of sin.
21 But now, regardless of the law, the righteousness of God has appeared, the law and the prophets bear witness to him.
22 This is the righteousness of God through faith in / of Jesus Christ all those who believe, because there is no difference: 23
all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 but are justified freely by his grace under the grant accomplished in Jesus Christ. He
25 that God intended to serve as expiation by his blood, through faith, to show what justice, because he had left the sins of the past,
26 at the time of his patience. He thus shows His justice in the present time, to be fair and justified one who lives by faith in Jesus. 27
there be so proud? It is excluded! On what? Works ? Not at all, but in the name of faith.
28 We believe that man is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Romans 4
13 In fact, it is not under law but under the righteousness of faith that the promise of receiving the world heritage was made to Abraham and his descendants.
14 If the heirs are under the law, faith has no meaning and the promise is void.
15 For the law brings about wrath; where there is no law, there is no transgression.
16 Thus it is by faith that one becomes heir to whether by grace and the promise remains valid for all the descendants of Abraham, not only for those who invoke the law, but also for those who claim the faith of Abraham, the father of us all.
17 Indeed, it is written: I made you the father of many nations. He is our father in front of him in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into existence what does not exist.
18 Hoping against hope, he believed and so became the father of many nations, according to the saying, So shall thy seed.
19 It does not weaken in faith, considering his body - he was almost a century - and the womb of Sarah, the one and the other affected by death.
20 Before the divine promise, he did not succumb to doubt, but he was fortified by faith and gave glory to God,
21 fully convinced that what he has promised, God also has the power to accomplish it. 22
is why it was credited to him as righteousness.
23 Now, it's not for him alone it is written: It was credited to him,
24 but for us, we to whom faith is counted, since we believe in Him who has risen from the dead Jesus our Lord,
25 delivered for our trespasses and raised for our justification. *
"Counted as righteousness ":" Being justified "does not mean" being made righteous, "but" be declared righteous. " Luther and the Reformation and spoke of justification "forensic", "foreign", "conditions", this word given in French "showman", that is to say, outside, outside, someone who is elsewhere. Similarly, the justification in the Bible, explained the Reformers, is foreign to us, it comes from elsewhere. We are not righteous in ourselves. God declares us righteous by grace, that is to say free. The justice is not ours, which is Christ alone, is given free to our faith alone. So we are declared righteous, we're not - not made right, which would be hopeless, because we would constantly measure our justification for our works of justice whether we are really justified. We are declared righteous by God's grace alone and we receive it, that free grace by our faith alone.
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Romans 7
14 We know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold into slavery to sin. 15
Yes, I do not understand nothing to what I do: what I want, I do not do it, but what I hate I do.
16 Now if I do not want, I do, I agree with the law and recognize that it is good;
17 this is not myself acting, but sin which dwells me.
18 For I know that in me - I mean in my flesh - do not live well: will the good is within my reach, but not the power,
19 as well as I want, I do do not and the evil I do not want, I do.
20 Now if I do not want, I do, this is not my act, but sin that dwelleth in me.
21 that I would do good, I find then a law: it is the evil that is within my reach.
22 For I delight in the law of God as a man inside,
23 but, in my members, I discovered another law warring against the law that ratifies my mind and it made me a prisoner of law of sin which is in my members. 24
wretched man I am! Who shall deliver me from this body which belongs to the dead?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So there I was enthralled by both the intelligence to the law of God and the flesh the law of sin. *
Captivity and issue - or: Religion works against religion of faith alone, religion an illusory human ability to become worthy of God's favor or contrary to the strict disability - and, in the heart of this dilemma, Religion of free or religion of the "servile", to quote Luther borrow
Contra Julianum Augustine (II, viii, 23).
The centrality of this dilemma that is faced with Luther, Erasmus was understood that by his De libero arbitrio intended to reach the heart of Pauline Luther's assertion of "total depravity" of the human subject, who makes him unable to do anything it is for his salvation. Luther no mistake in any case not more, writing to Erasmus at the beginning of his reply, De servo
arbitrio :
"You, at least you will not bother with side baffles on the papacy, purgatory, indulgences, and other nonsense that they use to harass me. Only you have entered the node, you have bitten on the throat "(Luther, of the servile
).
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From captivity to sin to salvation by faith: Luther Before, it was Paul who established the reality of "servile" - "captive to sin" - To affirm justification by faith alone. The idea that we would have free will to succumb to evil and do good is underpinned by optimism - that's what identifies Luther - as it gives us hope in ourselves, in a capacity that would be ours and we would do good works by which we conceive the hope of reaching to justify himself before God. But awareness of "captive to sin" of our ill will, leaves us no hope that the good news of the release for free, regardless of any merit.