Christ Died for Our Sins

You teach that salvation is in some form and in some degree conditioned on the sinner. That is not what the Bible teaches. The Bible teaches that salvation is 100% of God and 0% conditioned on the sinner. You teach that the new birth is accomplished by the sinner, in his fallen state, doing something. The Bible teaches that the new birth is 100% accomplished by God.

Therefore, any teaching that conditions any part of salvation on the sinner is a different gospel than the Bible reveals.

 

The Bible teaches that saving faith is a gift from God. Do you teach that?

The Bible teaches that Christ will save everyone whose sins were imputed to Him and that His perfect righteousness will be imputed to everyone for whom He died. Do you teach that?

 

Abraham's faith was not imputed to him for righteousness. That is a horrible false teaching. Christ's perfect righteousness is what is required to stand complete before God.

From John Gill's commentary on Romans 4:5-6:

"but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly: or that ungodly one: particular reference is had to Abraham, who in his state of unregeneracy was an ungodly person; as all God's elect are in a state of nature, and are such when God justifies them, being without a righteousness of their own; wherefore he imputes the righteousness of another, even that of his own Son, unto them: and though he justifies the ungodly, he does not justify their ungodliness, but them from it; nor will he, nor does he leave them to live and die in it; now to him that worketh not, that is perfect righteousness; or has no opportunity of working at all; or what he does, he does not do, that he might be justified by it; but exercises faith on God as justifying persons, who, like himself, are sinners, ungodly and destitute of a righteousness:

his faith is counted for righteousness; not the act, but the object of it; which was Abraham's case, and therefore was not justified by works."

"unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works. This righteousness cannot be the righteousness of the law, or man's obedience to it; for that is a righteousness with works, is a man's own, and not imputed; and indeed is not a righteousness in the sight of God: nor does man's blessedness lie in, or come by it; no man is, or can be instilled by it, nor saved by it, or attain to heaven and eternal happiness by the means of it; but the righteousness here spoken of is the righteousness of Christ, called the righteousness of God; and is better than that of angels or men; is complete and perfect; by which the law is honoured, and justice is satisfied. This is freely bestowed, and graciously "imputed" by God. Just in the same way his righteousness becomes ours, as Adam's sin did, which is by imputation; or in the same way that our sins became Christ's, his righteousness becomes ours; and as we have no righteousness of our own when God justifies us, this must be done by the righteousness of another; and that can be done no other way by the righteousness of another, than by imputing it to us: and which is done "without works"; not without the works of Christ, of which this righteousness consists; but without the works of the creature, or any consideration of them, which are utterly excluded from justification; for if these came into account, it would not be of grace, and boasting would not be removed. Now such who have this righteousness thus imputed to them, are happy persons; they are justified from all sin, and freed from all condemnation; their persons and services are acceptable to God; it will be always well with them; they are heirs of glory, and shall enjoy it."

 

You wrote: "Abraham Believe (had faith) and it was imputed to him as righteousness"

 

John Gill's commentary on Genesis 15:6:

"And he believed in the Lord,.... The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan are,"in the Word of the Lord;" in the essential Word of the Lord, in Christ the Lord his righteousness; he believed in the promise of God, that he should have a seed, and a very numerous one; he believed that the Messiah would spring from his seed; he believed in him as his Saviour and Redeemer; he believed in him for righteousness, and he believed in his righteousness as justifying him before God:

and he counted it to him for righteousness; not the act of his faith, but the object of it; and not the promise he believed, but what was promised, and his faith received, even Christ and his righteousness this was imputed to him without works, and while he was an uncircumcised person, for the proof of which the apostle produces this passage, Rom 4:3; wherefore this is not to be understood of any action of his being esteemed and accounted a righteous one, and he pronounced and acknowledged a righteous person on account of it; for Abram was not justified before God by his own works, but by the righteousness of faith, as all that believe are, that is, by the righteousness of Christ revealed to faith, and received by it: what is imputed is without a man, and the imputation of it depends upon the will of another; such the righteousness of Christ without works imputed by God the Father. This is the first time we read of believing, and as early do we hear of imputed righteousness."

 

It is the perfect righteousness of Christ, something neither you nor I can produce, that is imputed by God to His elect.

Do you understand that the only way to stand perfect before God is to be perfectly righteousness?

That righteousness comes from Christ's perfect obedience to the law of God on behalf of every person that God elected to salvation before the world began.

You or I cannot produce such a righteousness, not by believing nor by baptism nor by any works of any kind.

The sins of the elect were imputed to Christ and His perfect righteousness was imputed to them. And it is all by God's sovereign grace.