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Does the Old Testament Teach Justification by Faith Alone?

Jan 23, 2025 | crossway.org | Thomas Schreiner |Graham A. Cole

God’s Grace and MercyDoes the Old Testament teach justification by faith alone? We certainly don’t find the explicit teaching on the doctrine that is present in the New Testament. In one sense this isn’t surprising since the New Testament represents the climax of divine revelation and provides a clarity that isn’t found in the Old Testament witness.
10 Key Bible Verses on Demons

May 15, 2024 | crossway.org | Jon Nielson |Graham A. Cole |Iain Duguid |Christopher W. Morgan

This article is part of the Key Bible Verses series. All commentary notes adapted from the ESV Study Bible. 1. 1 Corinthians 10:19–22What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
What Are Demons, and How Should Christians Think about Them?

Jan 30, 2024 | crossway.org | Jon Nielson |Graham A. Cole

What Are Demons? Demons are spiritual beings created by God. It is extremely important to begin, as with angels, with the fact that demons were created by God. Since nothing exists that God did not create, the logical conclusion is that God made the demons to be his good servants—like the angels.
10 Things You Should Know about Predestination

Jan 8, 2024 | crossway.org | Andrew Naselli |Graham A. Cole

This article is part of the 10 Things You Should Know series. 1. Predestination should result in humility, praise, and comfort. Sometimes Christians passionately disagree with each other about predestination. But it is pitiful how we can take a Bible teaching that should result in humility, praise, and comfort and instead talk about it with sinful pride, divisiveness, and anxiety. We unreservedly affirm and cherish whatever God has revealed (cf. Isa. 66:2b). 2.
10 Key Bible Verses on Justification

Oct 21, 2023 | crossway.org | Thomas Schreiner |Graham A. Cole |Gerald Bray |Matthew Barrett

This article is part of the Key Bible Verses series. All commentary notes adapted from the ESV Study Bible. 1. Galatians 2:16. . . yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. Read More“Justified” means “counted righteous” or “declared righteous” by God.
10 Things You Should Know about the Atonement

Aug 22, 2023 | crossway.org | Jeremy Treat |Graham A. Cole

This article is part of the 10 Things You Should Know series. 1. The doctrine of atonement is about the at-one-ment of God and sinners as well as heaven and earth. The doctrine of atonement traditionally focuses on the meaning of Christ’s death and how it reconciles God and sinners. I affirm this approach but expand it in two ways. First, the cross is central but not solo in the doctrine of atonement.
Angels and the Local Church

Jun 23, 2023 | credomag.com | Lance English |Graham A. Cole

Just what does the local church need to know about angels, Satan and demons is an intriguing question. In my experience, I have heard very little from the pulpit or in adult Sunday school on the topic. The question is intriguing because popular culture (movies and TV for example) teems with treatments, often fanciful, on these very themes, especially around Halloween.
What Is Justification by Works, and Why Do We Reject It?

Jun 6, 2023 | crossway.org | Thomas Schreiner |Graham A. Cole

The Works of the LawThe apostle Paul emphasizes that we are not justified by “works” or by the “works of the law,” and the question before us is what Paul means when he speaks this way. Paul emphasizes that we don’t receive the Spirit and we aren’t justified by the works of the law (Gal. 2:16; Gal. 3:2, 5, 10; Rom. 3:20, 28). The works of the law refer to the entire law.