Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists

human attempts to gain acceptance. In bringing the
Crucified within, the Spirit brings the only ground
of our acceptance with God, providing the only
genuine title to and fitness for salvation available
to us.
Notes:
1. T.F. Torrance, Royal Priesthood, Scottish
Journal of Theology Occasional Papers, No. 3
(Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, l963), p. 48.
2. See "Conversion" and "Repent, Repentance,"
SDA Bible Dictionary, rev. ed., pp. 235, 933.
3. W.E. Vine, An Expository Dictionary of the
New Testament Words (Old Tappan, NJ:
Fleming H. Revell, l966), pp. 284-86; William
F. Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich, A Greek
English Lexicon of the New Testament and
Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press, l973), p. 196.
4. "Justification," SDA Bible Dictionary, rev. ed.,
p. 635.
5. LaRondelle, p. 47.
6. "Sanctification," SDA Bible Dictionary, rev.
356