You still don't understand what I said do you?
Christ did provide the LEGAL BASIS for the justification of the elect. He died for the elect - He paid it in full - it is finished, but read carefully now, He did not apply it to the elect - that was not his covenant responsibility. It was not the Father's responsibility. That responsibility was the sole work of the Holy Spirit - period! Hence, what Christ provided in full was the LEGAL BASIS for justification and the Father purposed it and accepted it for the elect. However, its application is the work of the Holy Spirit.
You have no concept of the trinue eternal covenant of redemption. If you had a clue you would not be isolating the covenant committment of the Father and claiming it stands sufficient alone and thus we were actually justified in eternity. If you had any clue you would not be isolating the work of the Son and presenting as standing alone and sufficient by itself. If you had any clue you would not be perverting, usurping the covenant work of the Holy Spirit which is the ACTUAL and LITERAL and LEGAL APPLICATION of what the Father purposed and promised and which the Son provided and fulfilled in his life and death.
Go back to Sunday school and learn the a,b,c's and return with some common sense and Biblical based soteriology.
Readers,
The eternal covenant of redemption was a covenant between the triune members of the Godhead wherein each member took on covenant responsibilites in the redemption of the elect.
Any system of interpretation that either isolates one Covenant member and their work from the other two and treats it as complete and sufficient in an of itself fails to understand the INTERDEPENDANT unity between all three members of the Godhead and oneness of the whole. This is the basic error that SBM is committing and that is why he is so confused and his interpretations so erroneous.
Second it is important to understand the covenant responsibility of each Divine Person and not confuse them with the other or make one usurp the other but rather they are a Tri-UNITY in their work but with distinct obligations.
The Father provides the PURPOSE or DESIGN and is responsible for choosing the elect unto that purpose and design (Eph. 1:4; 2 Thes. 2:13; etc.).
The Son provides the purchased price for the elect and thus establishes the LEGAL basis for their regeneration, conversion/justifcation/adoption/sanctification/glorifcation and rewards and He finished that work in His life and death.
The Holy Spirit provides the ACTUAL and LITERAL personal practical and legal application of what the Father purposed and the Son purchased.
This is the second error by SBM. He attempts to usurp the covenant office of the Holy Spirit by attributing His covenant work to both the Father and the Son and that is why he has the rediculous doctrine of actual and literal eternal justification and actual and literal spiritual union before the world began when nothing more exists before the world began but God's PURPOSE which must be implemented in time by the Son and Holy Spirit.
It is this ursupation of the office of the Holy Spirit that forces SMB to deny the explicit and clearly taught Biblical doctrine of "justification by faith."
1. The Father PURPOSED justification - the Plan
2. The Son PROVIDED the legal basis for justification
3. The Spirit APPLIED that basis to the person of the elect
As long as he confuses the Divine Persons and their covenant obligations or usurps the Holy Spirit's work with that of the Father's and the Son's or attempts to make each stand ALONE and INDEPENDENT from the other two he will pervert every scripture he touches and that is precisely what he has done and is currently doing.
