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theologians have been saying for a long time that we should conceive of Christian faith more as a way of life than as assent to a list of propositional assertions.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
N. T. Wright declares, “For Paul, pistis is the personal allegiance to the God who was now to be known as ‘the God who raised Jesus from the dead’; personal confession that ‘Jesus is Lord.’”13
Matthew W. Bates, Scot McKnight (Foreword) • Salvation by Allegiance Alone
Act 2, Scene 4 The Land: God’s Place for His People
George Guthrie • Reading God's Story: A Chronological Daily Bible
The Word of God for the People of God: An Entryway to the Theological Interpretation of Scripture
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That victory over death shows the victory of the new Adam over the old Adam. And as I said at the very beginning of this book, it is not simply that Jesus restores us to the position we enjoyed in the garden of Eden prior to the fall. We transcend that situation, because we participate in a victorious Adam who passed the probation and earned entran
... See moreR. C. Sproul • The Promises of God
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R. C. Sproul • Knowing Scripture
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Sinclair B. Ferguson • The Whole Christ
If we push this history aside, Christian faith as such disappears and is recast as some other religion. So if history, if facticity in this sense, is an essential dimension of Christian faith, then faith must expose itself to the historical method—indeed, faith itself demands this.
Pope Benedict XVI • Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
Faced with this puzzle, it is fair to ask: What difference might it make if the “middle” of the gospels was integrated with the “outer” bits? What would it be like if the cloak was no longer empty?