At BNTC in Durham,
John Barclay said:
- 'There is no judgment without mercy, and there is no mercy without judgment'
and:
- '"I will have mercy on whom I have mercy" [Rom. 9.15] doesn't mean, for Paul, "I'll wait for them to repent" but "I'll change them."'
He also offered the following definition of faith:
- Faith is the recognition that there is no way anything in the human condition can generate justification. In this way, it is a negative criterion, and it's consequence is that justification through faith is entirely of God
This alleviates the problem of
faith becoming a
work:
- Faith is not a human virtue, Rather it is a recognition of the total lack of human virtue.
- Abraham is justified by faith not because he has faith, but because of what he has faith in; namely, the undeserved mercy of God.
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