You've heard it said, it doesn't matter what you believe just as long as you're sincere.

Well, Christianity says eternal life matters concerning what you believe.

There is a content to the Christian faith.

Eternal life does hang in the balance, which is why we must be so clear in our proclamation of the gospel and vigilant in our defense of it.

Welcome to the Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind, as we conclude a week of R.C. Sprole unpacking for us the theology of the Protestant Reformation

and presenting a clear explanation of the biblical gospel. This week's series is called

Justified by Faith Alone, and today is the final day that you can request lifetime digital

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midnight. We are justified by faith alone. But what is true

saving faith? Here's Dr. Sprole. We've been looking at the Reformation formula justification

by faith alone. And I'm going to look briefly now at the question of faith.

What is meant in the formula justification by faith alone by the word faith? In the initial stages of the Reformation,

the Roman Catholic Communion heard Luther teaching

a kind of licentious libertinism or antinomianism,

the idea that you can just believe in Christ and then live however you want because works were not considered necessary for justification.

And so Luther had the task of defining what saving faith really means.

And historically, there's a difference among scholars as to how the reformers expanded their

understanding of the elements of saving faith.

Territon, for example, in the 17th century,

included six or seven or eight subtle, nuanced elements of saving faith.

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