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Forensic Friday: What Am I Missing?

By D. G. Hart | Published: April 30, 2010

I have made this point in the comments on various posts but do not believe I have done so in a post itself. The point is obviously related to the priority of justification to sanctification specifically with regard to the righteousness we possess by faith in Christ. The doctrine of justification teaches that God accepts… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Warfield on Justification

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 26, 2010

Sometimes we are told that Justification by Faith is “out of date.” That would be a pity, if it were true. What it would mean would be that the way of salvation was closed and “no thoroughfare” nailed up over the barriers. There is not justification for sinful men except by faith. The works of… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: An OPC Classic

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 19, 2010

Are Christians really new creatures? It certainly does not seem so. They are subject to the same old conditions of life to which they were subject before; if you look upon them you cannot notice any very obvious change. They have the same weaknesses, and, unfortunately, they have sometimes the same sins. The new creation,… Read More→

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Forensic Friday: Vos Weighs In

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 12, 2010

To [Paul’s] view the resurrection with all that clusters around it, has behind it a still more potential principle, a principle from which in fact it springs, and in whose depths it lies anchored. And this deeper principle is that of the acquisition of righteousness, a forensic principle through and through, and yet no less… Read More→

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Forensic Friday — E. J. Young’s Turn

By D. G. Hart | Published: February 5, 2010

This verse (Is 53:6) is a veritable compend of life-giving theology. Here is the doctrine of total depravity – we had gone astray, we had turned each one to his own way. These words set forth the fact of our sinfulness. We had already sinned and were gone out of the way. This is to… Read More→

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