Good Moral Conduct

• Paul’s letter to Romans: justification by faith

  3:20-26 - no human can ‘earn’ righteousness, must have faith

  4:2-5 - Abraham would be justified by his faith
• Evidence for justification by works

  Letter of James ’What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works?’
• Predestination Old Testament

  Deuteronomy 7:6-8 Israel elected as a chosen nation
• Romans 8


  ‘For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son’
• Example of God knowing us in the womb

  Job 31:15
• Genesis 9:1-3

  ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth’
• How many times does God call creation ’good’ in Genesis?

  7 times