Virtue is what is in accordance with God's nature, sin is what is contrary to God's nature, God's law is His instructions for how to live in the image of His nature, and Jesus Christ is the exact image of God's nature (Hebrews 1:3). Our salvation is from sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so living in obedience to it through faith in Jesus is intrinsically part of the concept of him saving us from not living in obedience to it. In other words, living in the image of God's nature through faith in the one who is the exact image of God's nature is the the content of Hs gift of saving us from not living in the image of God's nature. Alternatively, living virtuously is intrinsically part of the concept of Jesus saving us from not living virtuously.Can a man be saved without virtue?
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Faith alone the only virtue?Virtue is what is in accordance with God's nature, sin is what is contrary to God's nature, God's law is His instructions for how to live in the image of His nature, and Jesus Christ is the exact image of God's nature (Hebrews 1:3). Our salvation is from sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so living in obedience to it through faith in Jesus is intrinsically part of the concept of him saving us from not living in obedience to it. In other words, living in the image of God's nature through faith in the one who is the exact image of God's nature is the the content of Hs gift of saving us from not living in the image of God's nature. Alternatively, living virtuously is intrinsically part of the concept of Jesus saving us from not living virtuously.
The way to have faith alone in the goodness of God to be our guild for how to rightly live is by following God's instructions for how to do good works.Faith alone the only virtue?
Then you conclude that virtues are not required for salvation?The way to have faith alone in the goodness of God to be our guild for how to rightly live is by following God's instructions for how to do good works.
No, there are many verses like Romans 4:1-5 that deny that we can earn our justification as the result of our obedience and many verses like Romans 2:13 that say that only doers of the law will be justified, so there must be a reason why our justification requires us to choose to be doers of the law other than in order to earn it as a wage, such as faith insofar as the faith by which we are justified does not abolish our need to be a doer of the law, but rather our faith upholds it (Romans 3:28-31). While do do not earn our salvation as the result of being virtuous,Then you conclude that virtues are not required for salvation?
The sinner who comes to God in genuine faith is without virtue, as in the thief on the cross, or the prostitute.Can a man be saved without virtue?
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Faith is not a virture?The sinner who comes to God in genuine faith is without virtue, as in the thief on the cross, or the prostitute.
Faith is a gift of God, not of man's own virtuous doing (Php 1;29, Ac 13:48, Ac 18:27, 2 Pe 1:1, Ro 12:3).Faith is not a virture?
All the virtues are gifts from God, the supernatural virtues of Jesus Christ we only practice themFaith is a gift of God, not of man's own virtuous doing (Php 1;29, Ac 13:48, Ac 18:27, 2 Pe 1:1, Ro 12:3).
So we are agreed, there is no virtue that God does not give, virtue is not required of us for we have none.All the virtues are gifts from God, the supernatural virtues of Jesus Christ we only practice them