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The Futility of Self-Justification: Grace Is Already Yours (A Lectio Divina)
We want to justify ourselves — to be on the right side, blameless before God. But this desire is itself the oldest deception. Drawing on Thomas Oden and the Pauline theology of justification, this piece traces the transactional heart’s inability to receive what God freely offers, and the slow, humbling work of grace that…