Shallow Justification. Huh?

Just a few days ago I overheard a conversation at a lunch table regarding a recommended Christian book. Essentially the book under discussion deals with 6 or 7 topics the author feels were essential for young people to understand and believe prior to exiting their journey of adolescence.

Given the fact that the author is not a Pentecostal author, one of the individuals discussing the book suggested that he doesn't agree with all the "checkpoints" in the book, but does like the concept of teaching young people core topics so they become adults, knowing what they believe.

When someone at the table asked him what topics the book did mention as important, he stated "he (the author) dealt with things like justification by faith and other shallow stuff ..."

I nearly fell off my chair. Justification by faith is shallow stuff? If it's shallow, we might as well excise the book of Romans from the Bible. We might as well remove the foundation of Christian theology. In my humble opinion there is no greater biblical truth than justification by faith. All of salvation hinges upon it.

To be fair, perhaps the one categorizing justification as shallow was overstating. I hope so. Because inspection of the topic for the rest of eternity could not exhaust the wonder and depth of being made right in God's sight by faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.


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