{"id":524,"date":"2013-05-13T22:40:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T03:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=524"},"modified":"2019-12-21T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T22:00:05","slug":"luther-on-faith-and-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/05\/13\/luther-on-faith-and-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Luther on Faith and Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The truth of the Gospel is this, that our righteousness comes by faith alone, without the works of the Law. \u00a0The falsification or corruption of the Gospel is this, that we are justified by\u00a0faith, but not without the works of the Law. \u00a0The false apostles preached the Gospel, but they did so with this condition attached to it. \u00a0The scholastics do the same thing in our day. \u00a0They say that we must believe in Christ and that faith is the foundation of salvation, but they say that this faith does not justify unless it is &#8216;formed by love.&#8217;\u00a0 This is not the truth of the Gospel; it is falsehood and pretense. \u00a0The true Gospel, however, is this: Works or love are not the ornament or perfection of faith; but faith itself is a gift of God, a work of God in our hearts, which justifies us because it takes hold of Christ as the Savior. \u00a0Human reason has the Law as its object&#8230;.But faith in its proper function has no other object than Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was put to death for the sins of the world.\u00a0 It does not look at its love and say: &#8216;What have I done? Where have I sinned? What have I deserved?&#8217;\u00a0 But it says: &#8216;What has Christ done? What has He deserved?&#8217; &#8221; \u00a0Martin Luther,\u00a0\u201cLectures on Galatians (1535),\u201d\u00a0<em>Luther\u2019s Works<\/em>\u00a0vol. 26, p. 88<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The truth of the Gospel is this, that our righteousness comes by faith alone, without the works of the Law. \u00a0The falsification or corruption of the Gospel is this, that we are justified by\u00a0faith, but not without the works of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/05\/13\/luther-on-faith-and-love\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,99,134,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel","category-grace","category-love","category-martin-luther-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}