Was the Reformer Martin Luther innovating or an error when he added the word alone to Romans 328

for we hold that one is justified by faith alone apart from works of the law?

Find out in Pastor Will Whedon's column in the latest issues etc. journal.

In the Wittenburg Trail feature, Dr. Donna Harrison details her journey to confessional

Lutheranism from Catholicism, Scientism, Mysticism and Evangelicalism.

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Christians believe that Jesus rose bodily from the dead, but that's not mere resuscitation.

Jesus in his resurrection is now in his incarnation, his resurrected body, what we will be

when he raises us from the dead. So what does that mean not only for our lives in eternity,

but our lives right now? Welcome back to issues etc. joining us to talk about the Christian

and the resurrected Christ. Dr. John Bumbaro, he's director of theological education for Eurasia

for the Office of International Mission of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Senate.

He's authored a series of columns titled Resurrection Life for Resurrection People.

John, welcome back. Thank you for welcoming me, Todd.

You say that the resurrection of Jesus encompasses the total and comprehensive glorification of a

human being, not merely his restoration. What do you mean by that? We're going back to the

biblical story. It starts with Adam and Eve in the garden. They had not reached a state of

glorification. Their trial as it were didn't come to fruition and of course the fall happens in

all of humanity had fallen with them and it continued in that way. So when Jesus comes,

Eve doesn't simply come as a second Adam. There are plenty of Adams that followed afterwards.

Noah was a kind of Adam in Abraham as well. Even Israel as a nation as a sort of Adam nation.

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