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Salvation by Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the King is unavailable, but you can change that!

We are saved by faith when we trust that Jesus died for our sins. This is the gospel, or so we are taught. But what is faith? And does this accurately summarize the gospel? Because faith is frequently misunderstood and the climax of the gospel misidentified, the gospel’s full power remains untapped. While offering a fresh proposal for what faith means within a biblical theology of salvation,...

when Paul defines the content of saving pistis here, what he offers is a brief summation of the gospel, the eight-part narrative about the career of Jesus the Messiah that we traced earlier. Yet here it is compressed even further. Paul mentions death for sins, God’s action in raising Jesus from the dead, the lordship of Jesus, and the effectiveness of this good news for our obtaining right standing before God. What follows in the rest of this section is particularly vital
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