What Does Orthodoxy Say About JUSTIFICATION?

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  • @Seraphim-Hamilton
    @Seraphim-Hamilton  หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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  • @Road2Heaven123
    @Road2Heaven123 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    This is so important to understand. To come out of the false Christ (doctrine). Which is so popular nowadays.. but there is more to it, than just to understand with the mind, one must get free of the false images and spirits which are behind false doctrines.. this is not possible if God does not help us here. Yet we need the will (from our side) to come out and get the right Orthodox Mindset and Life
    Once poisened with the false Christ doctrine and false doctrine of Salvation, it will be a long process to get rid of the poison..

  • @jonathannunn2266
    @jonathannunn2266 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Thanks brother ☦️☦️☦️

  • @yuggoof
    @yuggoof หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Being baptised into Christ is the greatest blessing, due to my wretchedness it is also one of the hardest things to embrace in my experience. Thanks be to God for the times I've been chastened against my own weak will. Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy on me a sinner.

  • @bobthrasher8226
    @bobthrasher8226 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The word "justify" literally means "to make righteous." This, I believe is only one of two meanings for the word. The other meaning is the one Protestant Evangelicals commonly adhere to which is "declare righteous" and is the correct sense in James 2. If you read Rom 3-5 and replace the notion of "declared righteous" with "made righteous" you will find that most occurrences read just fine (better in many instances). Consider Rom 5:18,19 which says "Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous." Notice that "justification" in v 18 parallels "made righteous" in v 19. Rom 4:30 gives us another clue as well. Rom 6 explains the "mechanics" (baptism into Christ) of HOW God makes people righteous. THIS is the power of God that Paul is enthusiastic about in Rom 1:16. It is the power to transform a person and not merely sweep their sins under the rug.

    • @JohnMaximovich-r8x
      @JohnMaximovich-r8x หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      To justify means to put into right order (you know, kinda like "justify left" and "justify right" on a word processor).

    • @bobthrasher8226
      @bobthrasher8226 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@JohnMaximovich-r8x When we're "justified" God "straightens us out" - I love the analogy.

    • @bobthrasher8226
      @bobthrasher8226 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The "two meanings" of justify easily solves the apparent contradiction between the "justify" of Paul and James.

  • @kardzYT
    @kardzYT หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hello there

  • @Abraham-yq2wz
    @Abraham-yq2wz หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don’t think the term is quite as technical as that. Paul uses justification in Gal 2 in the context of Jews/Gentiles, and the context (IMO) requires justification to generally mean “making whole”-(which wouldn’t exclude your definition).
    Paul appeals to Peter on the basis of their being Jews who understand that by segregating themselves in holiness through Torah observance, they are not restoring mankind. When, therefore, Christ dies outside of Jewish holiness segregation, the barrier between Jews and the nations is removed.
    So Gal 2:14-16 would read: “I said to Cephas before them all: ‘If you, a Judahite, are subsisting as a person of the Nations, and not living Judaically, how do you compel the those of the Nations to Judaize? We are Judahites by nature and not sinners from the Nations, knowing that mankind is not made whole by Torah observances, except through Christ Jesus’ faithfulness. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be made whole by faith and not by Torah observances, since no flesh will be made whole by Torah observances.”

    • @Abraham-yq2wz
      @Abraham-yq2wz หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s why circumcision as a means of justification is so absurd to Paul-it’s literally a cutting away of humanity, so how can it be a means of “making whole”.

    • @Abraham-yq2wz
      @Abraham-yq2wz หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is also demonstrates the point that Lossky makes so well, that Christ restored human nature, and the Holy Spirit restores the person. Justification has to do with nature, and one way the restoration of nature can be demonstrated is in the evangelization of the Nations.

    • @j.g.4942
      @j.g.4942 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think it's a related term, yet Seraphim is justified in his usage.
      The word 'heal' or 'save' is explicitly about 'making whole' (you can hear it, whole/wholed/healed).
      Justify/right is tightly related as the Right man is also Whole and Holy; just as The Truth is The Good and The Beautiful.