Humanity, Sin, and Salvation

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Ordo Salutis: Adoption

They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator Romans 1:25 The Ancient Gentile Wasteland The Apostle Paul does not describe the Gentile nations as harmless peoples quietly searching for truth in their own sincere way. He writes with dreadful clarity: we were “separated from […]

Michael Franco Smit · July 4, 2026

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Ordo Salutis: Justification

The doctrine of justification is unique to Christianity. Many religions offer forgiveness, sacrifice, or some other way of dealing with guilt and sin, but only the Christian faith proclaims that the holy God removes the sinner’s guilt and grants him a righteous standing before His judgment seat on the ground of a perfect sacrifice that […]

Michael Franco Smit · April 5, 2026