The role of reason has been seriously neglected as a necessary element in our life of faith. In this booklet, Dr. R.C. Sproul demonstrates the interplay between faith and reason in all aspects of our lives as children of God. Dr. Sproul provides good reason to believe God through knowledge of Him in order to be able to live by faith. Central to understanding how to live by faith is understanding how God redeems people. Dr. Sproul explores how God redeems (...) sinners in Christ by looking at Martin Luther and a central doctrine of the Reformation: justification by faith. After examining the importance of justification, Dr. Sproul answers questions about dying well in faith, while looking to Abraham and the book of Hebrews for examples of people who have lived by faith to show why faithfulness should be a dominant character of every Christian. (shrink)

Question of conscience -- Creation ordinances -- Razor's edge -- Legalist distortion -- Distortion of lawlessness -- Degrees of sin.

Preface -- Ethics and morals -- Revealed ethics -- Legalism and antinomianism -- The ethics of materialism -- The ethics of capital punishment and war -- The ethics of abortion -- Ethics and the conscience.