Sunday, January 30, 2011

How may we escape God's punishment and be received into favor?

Heidelberg Catechism

Question 12.
Since, then, by the righteous judgment of God we deserve temporal and eternal punishment, how may we escape this punishment and be again received into favor?

Answer. God wills that His justice be satisfied;[1] therefore, we must make full satisfaction to that justice, either by ourselves or by another.[2]

[1] Ex 20:5, 23:7; Rom 2:1-11;
[2] Isa 53:11; Rom 8:3-4

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