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To believe in your heart

Tuesday, November 13, 2007. 0 Comments:

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Here is another paragraph that continues Origen's thoughts on the subject of justification.


But also observe what he says, "That if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that he raised that God from the dead, you will be saved." For through this it will seem to some that even if a person lacks the advantages of good works, even if he fails to put forth effort for the virtues, nevertheless, by this, that he has believed, he would not perish but would be saved and would possess salvation, even though he would be unable to possess the glory of blessedness. But consider whether instead it ought to be understood that whoever truly, and not falsely, confesses with the mouth that Jesus is Lord and believes in the heart would equally confess himself to be subjected to the lordship of wisdom, righteousness, truth, and to everything that Christ is. He confesses mammon not to be his lord any longer, that is to say, he is no longer to be under the lordship of greed, unrighteousness, unchastity, or lying. For, having confessed once and for all that Jesus Christ is Lord, he is declaring publicly that he is not a slave of any of these things. Moreover, by believing in his heart that God raised him from the dead, it is certain that he believes him raised unto his own justification. Otherwise, what would it profit me to know and believe that God raised Jesus from the dead? If I shoud not have him raised within myself, if I neither walk in the newness of life nor flee from the old habit of sinning, Christ has not yet resurrected from the dead to me. The words that follow agree with this sense as well, which say, "For the Scripture says that everyone who believes in him will not be ashamed." This is written in Isaiah. But if everyone who believes in him is not ashamed, but everyone who sins is ashamed, just as also Adam sinned and was ashamed and hid himself, anyone who still encouters the shame of sin seems not to believe.
(Or.Rom.8.2.7-8 (Scheck)

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