“We
are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion
of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works. To the
age-old question, ‘What shall I do to be saved?’ the confessional answer
is shocking: ‘Nothing! Just be still; shut up and listen for once in
your life to what God the Almighty, creator and redeemer, is saying to
his world and to you in the death and resurrection of his Son! Listen and believe!’” Gerhard O. Forde, Justification by Faith (Philadelphia, 1983), page 22.
This is hard for Christians today to accept and believe because they
trust in themselves and are sure what they add to their salvation will
put them over the top and make them acceptable to God. What Forde is
saying has been falsely proclaimed as easy believe-ism but what he is
saying is that salvation is justification by faith alone through Christ
alone.
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