Welcome to the Council Trent Podcast, I'm your host, Cathayans's apologist Trent Horn.

And today I'll be examining the historical evidence, or lack thereof thereof for what is probably the central

doctrine of Protestantism, Solofide, justification by faith alone.

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great stuff, trendhorn podcast.com. All right, so why is this such a big deal?

Martin Luther once said that justification by faith alone is the doctrine

by which the church stands or falls.

There's even a recent defense of Solofide that uses this quote as the book's title.

So in a nutshell, Solofide means that a sinner is justified by faith alone and works are only an effective justification, never its cause.

Moreover, Christ's righteousness is imputed or credited to the believer, and his standing before God is based solely on that legal

declaration that imputes this righteousness and not on anything that actually changes in the soul

of the believer,

what would be called infused righteousness of Christ.

Some Protestants take this one step further and say that

once a person is justified by faith alone,

he can never lose his salvation.

But did the early church, which received the faith from the apostles themselves, did they teach

this?

Did they teach that works have nothing to do with our justification or our standing before God?

Our works just the inevitable byproduct of a true faith.

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