Justification

saved unto good works, not saved due to good works

 

That's the right attitude to have but I've seen plenty of your posts on here and I would be willing to bet that no one would spend more than an hour with you and not realize that you are a believer. It used to be popular to teach progressive sanctification by drawing two lines sloping upward from left to right. The top line was your knowledge of yourself and the way it increased as you grew as a Christian. The other line also sloped upward but not at the same rate. I represented your actual life and conduct. Even though you were growing as a Christian and getting more holy and doing more, the gap between your understanding and actual practice tended to grow larger and therefore if anything, a mature Christian would be less satisfied with himself as he matured. But still, there is and must be some evidence of true faith.

 

@KenH denies it:

 

K. No prob.

 

Does it occur to you that the 'new heart of the elect' IS the workmanship of God?:

13 for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:
14 (for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves;
15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing them); Ro 2

16 This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws on their heart, And upon their mind also will I write them; then saith he, Heb 10

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people: Heb 8

29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. Ro 2

11 in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; Col 2

 

Some of you just can't accept that 'regeneration' can and does occur loooong before conversion.

 

You hold to 'gospel regeneration', as do most today. All who have not heard the gospel are bound for hell, right?

Oh, but we're given many examples of it in the scriptures.

 

4 Lo, a presumptuous one! Not upright is his soul within him, And the righteous by his stedfastness liveth. Hab 2:5 YLT

6 who will render to every man according to his works:
7 to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life: Ro 2

18 Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will show thee my faith.
24 Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith. Ja 2

18 But I say, Did they not hear? Yea, verily, Their sound went out into all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.
21 But as to Israel he saith, All the day long did I spread out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. Ro 10

12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them. Prov 20

16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. Mt 13

15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
27 All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal him. Mt 11

10 For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
11 so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Isa 55