love (doing), he thought he had to get right with God in his own strength. That’s because, when it came to salvation, the medieval church merged faith and love by combining our sufferings (the J-Curve) with Jesus’s suffering. When we merge faith with love in salvation, we don’t just muddy the waters—faith loses. Faith must be pure. If saving faith isn’t pure, we re-create the works righteousness of the Judaizers. That was Luther’s struggle. If salvation depended on Luther’s doing, then confessing all