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To be a “Jew” originally means to belong to Judah, one of the twelve tribes of Israel, and thus to be a descendant of Jacob’s son Judah, Abraham’s great-grandson, but it is also used in a broader sense to describe all those who share in God’s promise to Abraham to create a blessed people. Today the term is used to …
Faith is man’s response to God’s revelation. Faith means trusting in God, being convinced that he exists and trusting in his salvation and care. To believe in God is to be like an infant lying safely in its mother’s arms, trusting God completely and depending on him. In Jesus Christ, God has revealed himself, and whoever believes in him has …
God lovingly created man in His image, but man sinned and walked away from God. Ever since the Fall, sin has destroyed man and separated humanity from God. With Jesus’ death on the cross and our faith in Jesus, God gives us undeserved grace by forgiving us our sins, but also transforming us from sinners to saints, so that we …
Righteousness means living rightly and holily before God, and is the opposite of ungodliness, i.e., living wrongly and sinfully before God. The only one who is fully righteous is God himself, and we humans need to learn from Jesus how to live righteously. However, it is impossible for a person to live completely righteously because we are tempted by sin …
Because of sin, every man has lost his relationship with God, his eternal life, and has also destroyed and disfigured himself and his environment. But God loved the world so much that he sent his Son to offer salvation to all people by dying on the cross of Calvary. Jesus sacrificed himself and shed his own sinless blood to atone …
“1Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3I will bless those who bless you, and him …
Jas 2:14 The Greek word “ergon” can be translated as “work”, “action”, “deed” or “achievement”. In the New Testament, this relatively neutral word is often used in connection with the Law of Moses. Paul often goes against the Pharisaic idea that as a Jew one becomes righteous before God by performing “works of the law”, and stresses the importance of …