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Originally Posted by Ivanhoe  Christology, the Trinity--that would be more important, because God is more important than me. I wouldn't want to make my soteriology subservient to my Trinitarianism. Of course, I don't deny JBFA. |
Jacob,
This assumes that the two are in competition. Don't forget that the RCC affirms Nicene Orthodoxy and even recites it every week in Church.
In my estimation, however, they deny what they cite because it is the Trinity that has decreed that men would be saved by the righteousness of Christ.
In my estimation, an argument to place other issues before the nature of justification end up being problematic because it assumes a man can bend the knee and worship God before he has been born from above and trusted in God. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and that fear of God is found by faith alone that is born from above. We can talk all day long about other doctrines being more central but a man won't even begin to comprehend those things until he has an Evangelical fear.