{"id":1967,"date":"2021-11-03T12:03:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebcsv.com\/pa\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2021-11-03T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:04:00","slug":"by-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebcsv.com\/pa\/by-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"By Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Faith\"The Just Shall Live by Faith<\/h3>\n

Romans 1:17<\/p>\n

Indulgences
\nPurgatory
\n95 Theses<\/p>\n

In an age driven by experience and feeling more than by truth; the Reformation seems to most people like much ado about nothing.
\nTo many, the essence of religion is the experiential feeling of the Divine. Creeds and confessions, liturgies and Scripture all seem too binding and divisive.
\nThe motto quickly becomes: \u201cNor creed but Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

But is this not the slippery slope to the gates of Hell? Yes, doctrine divides and sadly some of those divides have been caused by fights over trivial minutia. When that happens, the casualties that pile up are the tragic result of the Churches obsession with petty things.
\nBut when separations happens over core, essential truth; that division is demanded by faithfulness to Scripture.<\/p>\n

During the Protestant reformation, the things that separated Luther from Catholicism were essential truth\u2019s that had been obscured by years of accumulation of tradition.
\nThese traditions had slowly superseded Scripture\u2019s authority. When that happened, the gospel was compromised.<\/p>\n

The 5 core convictions that came out of the Reformation were convictions based on what we call the \u201csola\u2019s\u201d or \u201calone\u2019s\u201d. Sola Scriptura (Scripture alone), Sola Christus (Christ alone),Sola Gratia (Grace alone), Sola fide (Faith alone), Sola Dei Gloria (To God alone be the glory).
\nThese sola\u2019s must still serve as the foundation from which all our conviction grow.
\nToday we think on these things.<\/p>\n

Because of grace,
\nTim<\/p>\n

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