True Christianity and Moralism cannot coexist - Joe's Blog

"You will more easily unite fire and water, than reconcile these two statements, that men are justified by faith, and that they are justified by the law."

—John Calvin

There are things that coexist and things that do not.  Dogs and cats I am told can.  Yankees fans and Red Sox fans I'm told cannot.  

When it comes to how we are justified—made right before God—there are two options.  The first is through obeying a law of moral performance.  Many folks call this the "be good enough" option and is the burden of millions of souls at this very hour.  The second option is to place your faith in Jesus's work of atonement for sin and trust that God will look on Jesus's moral performance rather than your own.  This is called the "gospel" option and is offered freely.

Law and gospel, moralism and grace do not coexist.  Christianity is not mostly grace and little moralism.  It isn't good parent, bad parent with grace softening up the law but depending on it for coercion.  

It is all grace or all moralism, all Jesus or all us.  But it cannot be both.

via joehol.com

The Gospel........It's not do all you can, be as good as you can be. It's actually trust in all that has been done and the goodness of another---The CHRIST.

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