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“The great doctrine of justification by faith, so clearly taught by Luther, had been almost wholly lost sight of…” Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, pg. 253.
xxvi. A summary of what Luther taught is as follows.
a. Luther taught a Justification by Faith that opposed the concept of Justification by works as taught by Rome.
b. Luther’s concept of Justification was by Faith alone, which opposed Rome’s justification by faith formed by charity which was good works. Thus it is Rome’s idea of good works for justification that Luther fought against.
c. Luther’s doctrine of Justification was a subjective, inner change, regenerated concept that revealed the person possessing Christ and the Righteousness of God within as a gift.
d. For Luther, only after a person was already justified by Faith, then he did the good works of the Law that was acceptable to God.
xxvii. All this teaching was in fact very Biblical. Here is what the Bible teaches about Justification.
a. Justification is not by works, as Abraham found out years ago before Christ. Rom. 4:1,2.
b. Justification could not be achieved by the good works of the Law. Gal. 2:16.
c. Justification was by Faith alone, which meant not by the works of the Law with faith. Gal. 3:8,9; Rom. 3:28.
d. In Justification, the Righteousness of God was imputed into the believer. (Rom. 4:11; Rom. 3:22).
e. In Justification, the believer possessed the Righteousness of God in his heart. Ps. 40:10.
f. When a person, is Justified by Faith, that Faith causes him to do the good works of the Law of God. Rom. 3:28,30,31.
g. Thus Justification was an inner moral change. (Rom. 8:6; Rom. 5:1).
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