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New Perspectives on Paul #2 - Coggle Diagram
New Perspectives on Paul #2
Salvation guaranteed
birthright
- x need to do/believe anything
part of God's story
believed a Messiah would come
general resurrection
why so passionate to kill off Christianity - a dead messiah x messiah
Now Jewish M for the whole world.
Until he met Jesus
x need to do anything
or believe anything
So justification by grace
through
faith
solves works. Faith enough to justify? How much doubt will exclude?
If grace is a free gift - why do we need faith?
Calvin solved the problem
'pistis'
is the word used by Paul for faith - better 'faithfulness'
Pistis Christou
faith
in
or
of
Jesus
Tyndale translated
of
so Eph 2:8-9 reads:
Most translations -
Faith in
, obliged to accept that we have to have faith - and if we turn our back our wish will be granted - eternity in hell
Up to reformation all held
of
(vulgate) - catholic and orthodox still do - we're hanging on to 16th c reformers
Revolutionary!
If saved by grace, through the
faithfulness
of
Christ - who is 'in' is irrelevant. Christ died to save the whole world.
We know this to be true
Q's about muslims, atheists, people who lived before Christ etc
dance around theology - God's mercy, mustard seed
'God doesn't muscle in'
That's not love!
Reading Eph 2: 1-10