Sola, sola, sola, sola, sola

Today is Reformation Sunday. The day that we remember Martin Luther nailing his 95 thesis to the door of the church at Wittenburg. One of the things that came out of the reformation is concept of the "five solas", sola scriptura (scripture alone), sola fide (faith alone), sola gratia (grace alone), sola christo (Christ alone) and sola gloria dei (to the glory of God alone). Five things that stand alone assure us of salvation. But at what point do five things standing alone become five things standing together? Perhaps the answer is that they do not ever stand together because they are all one and the same thing. Scripture alone is faith alone. Faith alone is grace alone. Grace alone is Christ alone. Christ alone is God's glory alone. These five things, which stand alone, stand alone because they are all different descriptions of the same thing.