Justification remains a controversial doctrine. New Testament scholars are reexamining Paul’s teaching. Lutherans and Roman Catholics have produced a Joint Declaration on the topic. The excerpts from ...

OK, so you are telling me there is my monkey, my trainer, and my monkey PR guy, right? That I can understand. The context of this colorful comment was a Zoom call with my friends from high school. We ...

I was doing a podcast the other day, and the interviewer inquired, “You use ‘justification’ a lot and often in ways I have not heard it used. Can you help our listeners by explaining what you mean by ...

Businesses attempt to make the most efficient use of their resources, particularly financial resources. Financial justification is the process by which a business determines whether or not a specific ...

System justification theory explains why individuals rationalise and defend existing social, economic and political arrangements, often to their own detriment. Ideological beliefs function as ...

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 basic fact of biblical religion is that God pardons and accepts believing sinners (cf. Ps. 32:1–5; 130; Luke 7:47 ff.; 18:9–14; Acts 10:43; 1 John 1:7–2:2). Paul’s doctrine of justification by ...

Catholics believe in Jesus Christ and His all-sufficient saving work on the cross (ours to receive by Grace Alone), just as Protestants do. We only deny an extreme Faith Alone position. St. Paul ...