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justification by faith
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Glossary
The Calvinist idea that faith is known directly between the individual and God rather than through Catholic works or church mediation.
definition
Jiang contrasts Catholic justification by works and Lutheran justification by faith before asking how one can prove true belief.
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Paul moves righteousness away from Jewish law and toward faith in Jesus as redemption from original sin.
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When rivals accuse Paul of corrupting Jesus, Jiang says Paul answers by making unity and growth more important than the content of Jesus' message.
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Paul uses building, wages, and foundation language to justify church success as proof of correctness.
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Justification by faith creates anxiety because believers must prove inward belief without being able to verify it through works.
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"...Frank and St. Zevi represent is a more powerful understanding of faith, okay? So remember, there are, there have been three different understandings of..."
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"...by the law and the prophets. The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe, for there is no distinction,..."
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"Okay, so what Paul is doing is he's going around and corrupting the teachings of Jesus. And other people are calling him out and..."
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"...of business success, of wealth, of material acquisition to justify his faith in Jesus, okay? And this is the opposite of what Jesus taught...."
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"...Calvinism from Catholicism, okay? The first is the idea of justification by faith. So in the Catholic religion, you show your faith to God..."
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"...doesn't matter. The works doesn't matter. What matters is your true faith, okay? That's the first thing. Second thing, which is more important, is..."
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"...the eyes of God. But the fundamental demand now is justification by faith. you have to truly believe in God you must develop your"
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"life around this faith in God okay so on one hand the Protestant religion is solving a lot of problems created by the church..."
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"...third idea is justification by works. The second idea is justification by faith. The problem though, of course, is that these three solutions to..."
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"...of different branches, okay? The last problem is most problematic, justification by faith. This creates anxiety, right? Because if you don't really know God..."
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"...leaders of the Protestant Reformation are Martin Luther who proposed justification by faith okay justification by faith you have to actually believe in God..."
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"...of the Catholic church, they said, no, what matters is justification by faith. It doesn't matter how much money you give to the church...."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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