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I need help creating a thesis and an outline on The Doctrine of Justification by Kenneth Grider and John Murray. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An ab

I need help creating a thesis and an outline on The Doctrine of Justification by Kenneth Grider and John Murray. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. The fact that Christ's work in this sense stands outside of us, we can appreciate how God is at the center of our salvation.&nbsp. The Subjective work of Christ, on the other hand, is done in us and to us through the work of the Holy Spirit.&nbsp. As a result, the faithful are called, leading to repentance and faith, sanctification, and finally, assurance of salvation.

The Calvinist teaching on justification by faith alone is at the center of the subjective theology.

'Therefore, we must now discuss these matters thoroughly. And we must so discuss them as to bear in mind that this is the main hinge (the doctrine of justification by faith) on which religion turns so that we devote the greater attention and care to it. For unless you, first of all, grasp what your relationship to God is, and the nature of his judgment concerning you, you have neither a foundation on which to establish your salvation nor one on which to build piety toward God.'

Christ "for us" refers to the doctrine that as long as an individual has faith in Christ and what he has done for us, then he is saved.&nbsp. The dilemma in this is that if one is saved by professing his belief in Christ, then that person is saved by his act (man's works), not the saving grace of Christ's sacrifice.&nbsp. This goes against the principle of sola fide, or justification by faith alone.

John Murray writes:

This truth that God justifies needs to be underlined. We do not justify ourselves. Justification is not our apology, nor is it the effect in us of a process of self-accusation. It is not even our confession nor the good feeling that may be induced in us by confession. Justification is not any religious exercise in which we engage, however noble and good that religious exercise may be. If we are to understand justification and appropriate its grace, we must turn our thoughts to God's action justifying the ungodly.

Murray's teaching is consistent with subjective atonement theology.&nbsp. Stated, under this theory, God is the subject of the reconciliation process. that is, God is the one who carries out the process of reconciliation in His infinite mercy.&nbsp. There is nothing that humans need to do to atone for his or her sins, and it is God's infinite mercy that has done it all.

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