Sproul and Justification According to Western Culture

This is a great little book on the atonement.   I’ll probably post more quotes from it later, but for now I thought this one stuck out:

“The prevailing doctrine of justification today is not justification by faith alone.  It’s not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works.  The prevailing notion of justification in Western culture today is justification by death.  It’s assumed that all one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die” (R.C. Sproul, The Truth of the Cross [Orlando: Reformation Trust, 2007], 10).

shane lems

sunnyside wa