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Justifying faith has no side hustles.

December 11th, 2023.

Introduction.

Tom Hicks and Garrett Walden

recently fired up their keyboards in order to interact with

quote-unquote the Moscow Doctrine on justification.

Their article can be found here.

The point of the article is to deal with quote Wilson's problematic doctrine of faith and

its relationship to justification.

Okay, then.

I need to clear away some debris first, but if you want to cut to the chase, my explanation

of the mistake that Hicks and Walden are making is largely contained in the large

section near the end of this post.

You know the antipanultimate section, the one entitled Oh for pity's sake.

You dear reader are a busy person I realize.

You may need to go check that part out first because you can't

afford to wade through all my preliminary horsing around. So the

teaser is this. The mistake they are making is born out of a steadfast

refusal to let me agree with them. In that section I make a valiant attempt to make

it clear that my views on the instrumentality of faith and justification are by the standard

of the Westminster confession as a jar of olive oil, extra virgin.

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