Coming up next on renewing your mind.

If God is just and I am not just and I have to face His just judgment,

how can I possibly stand?

What I am in need of, most desperately for all eternity,

is to be justified.

And our only access to that justification is by faith.

That's a vital truth that was rediscovered during the Reformation and it represents a

fundamental difference between Christianity and all other religions.

It even defines the differences within Christianity.

We're glad that you joined us today for renewing your mind.

As R.C. Sproul continues his series, What Is Reformed Theology?

Today we're going to look at what the historians call the material cause of the Reformation,

the central controversy over which the whole debate raged, which was the doctrine of

sola fidei. And the term sola fidei contains this sola again which means alone and fidei

is the word for faith coming from Fideilus.

Remember the Marine Corps motto, Semper Fai or Semper Fideilus or the im a despe Fideilus

of Kamauji Faithful.

sola fidei means faith alone. And this was the central assertion of Martin Luther that

provoked the serious controversy of the 16th century.

And he was speaking to the question, how is a person justified in the sight of God?

I think that the doctrine of justification by faith alone of all of the doctrines of

systematic theology is relatively easy to grasp with the mind.

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