ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tu’apulelulu ‘Epeleli 14, 2022

THE DOCTRINE OF FAITH

KO E TOKATELINE ‘O E TUI

1 TIMOTHY 4:6

If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.

1 TIMOTHY 4:6

Kapau te ke enginaki ‘a e ngaahi me‘a ni ki he kāinga, te ke hoko ko e faifekau lelei ‘a Kalaisi Sīsū, ‘i ho‘o fakamaheni ai pē koe ‘i he ngaahi tala fakalotu, pea mo e ngaahi fakamatala ‘o e tokāteline lelei na‘a ke ako fakatotolo ki ai.

Kabau te ke fakamanatu‘i ‘a e ngaahi me’a ni ki he kainga, te ke hoko ko e faifekau lelei ‘a Jisu Kalaisi, ‘o tāu mo ho’o fafaga‘i ‘i he gaahi lea ‘o e tui mo e akonaki lelei, ‘a ia kuo ke lava‘i hono ilo‘i. (Paaki ‘a Uesi)

 

Sola Fide - Faith Alone - Ko e Tui´ pe   

The true knowledge of Christ consists in receiving Him as He is offered by the Father, namely, as invested with His Gospel. For, as He is appointed as the end of our faith, so we cannot directly tend toward Him except under the guidance of the Gospel. Therein are certainly unfolded to us treasures of grace. Did these continue shut, Christ would profit us little. Hence Paul makes faith the inseparable attendant of doctrine in these words: "Ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus” (Ephesians 4:20-21).

Still I do not confine faith to the Gospel in such a sense as not to admit that enough was delivered to Moses and the prophets to form a foundation of faith; but as the Gospel exhibits a fuller manifestation of Christ, Paul justly terms it the doctrine of faith (1 Timothy 4:6).

JOHN CALVIN

Ko e ‘ilo mo’oni ‘o Kalaisi, ‘oku fou ‘i hono ma’u Ia ‘o fakatatau ki hono tuku mai ‘e he Tamai, ‘a ee ‘oku fakaha ‘i he Kosipeli. Ko Ia ‘a e taumu’a ‘o ‘etau tui, pea ‘oku ‘ikai ha hu kiate Ia, ‘o ‘ata’ataa mei he Kosipeli. ‘Oku ‘iate Ia ‘a e ngaahi koloa ‘o e kelesi. Pea ka ne ta’e ‘omi ma’a kitautolu ‘a e ngaahi kelesi ni, ‘e ‘ikai ha ‘aonga ‘o Kalaisi kiate kitautolu. Koe’uhinga ia ‘oku fokotu’u mai ai ‘e Paula, ‘a e tui, ko e setuata ia ‘o toketeline: “Ka tala‘ehai na‘e pehē ho‘omou ako Kalaisi: he ‘oku te pehē ko ia ia na‘a mou fanongo ki ai, pea ‘i ho‘omou ‘iate ia na‘a mou ako ‘i he ‘alunga ‘o e mo‘oni ‘oku hā ‘ia Sīsū” (‘Efeso 4:20-21).

Ka ‘e ‘ikai te tau fakangata pe ‘a e Tui ki he Kosipeli, ‘o ta’e kau ai ‘a e maama na’e tuku kia Mosese mo e kau Palofita, ko ha makatu’unga ‘ o e tui; ka ko  Kalaisi ‘a e fakaha’anga kakato ‘o Kalaisi, koe’uhinga ia na’e pehee ai ‘e Paula, ko e tokateline ‘o e tui (1 Timote 4:6).