1. What is the ground of justification on God's part?
“That being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” Titus 3:7.
2. What is the means through which this justifying grace is made available to the sinner?
“Much more then, being now justified by His [Christ's] blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.” Rom. 5:9.
3. How is justification laid hold upon?
“Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.” Rom. 3:28.
4. What is the only way sinners may be justified, or made righteous?
“Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.” Gal. 2:16.
5. What concrete example makes clear the meaning of this doctrine?
“And He brought him [Abraham] forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to [pg 111] number them: and He said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the Lord; and He counted it to him for righteousness.” Gen. 15:5, 6.