Christ's Sheep Have Eternal Life NOW

[Van]

John 3:36a = “The one who believes in the Son has eternal life;..."

The verb "has" is present tense, thus the one who believes "into the Son" has eternal life at that point in time.

To believe into is to have your belief in Christ credited as righteousness and therefore be transferred into Christ's spiritual body.

This is not rocket science.

 

[KenH]

How are we justified?

"Biblical justification involves two miracles of God’s grace: (1) The complete forgiveness (pardon) of sins on a just ground, that ground being the blood of Jesus Christ as the Surety, Substitute, and Redeemer of God’s chosen people. (2) The reality of a righteous standing for sinners before God on a just ground, which is Christ’s righteousness (the merits of His obedience unto death for His people) imputed (charged) to them. The Bible teaches that both miracles are totally and exclusively the work of God through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, with no contribution from or participation by those whom God has justified."

- from Bill Parker's book, https://n.b5z.net/i/u/10086795/f/JUSTIFICATION_ESSENTIALS.pdf

 

[KenH]

So are you claiming the buyer giver is also receiver of the gift on our behalf?

Salvation is the gift of God - a salvation procured by Christ for His people in which He met ALL of the conditions for it.

 

[KenH]

The only righteousness that God accepts, in which He can find no flaw, in which a vile sinner can stand before Him in perfection, is the perfect righteousness of Christ imputed to a vile sinner, whose sins are not imputed to him but have been imputed to Christ as his Surety, his Representative, his Substitute.

Human righteousness, which can never be anything other than filthy rags, Isaiah 64:6, (literally, menstruous cloths), cannot avail.

 

[KenH]

Only as an offered gift.

The gospel is a declaration of the salvation that Christ has procured for His people, not an offer.

 

[Van]

"Biblical justification involves two miracles of God’s grace: (1) The complete forgiveness (pardon) of sins on a just ground, that ground being the blood of Jesus Christ as the Surety, Substitute, and Redeemer of God’s chosen people. (2) The reality of a righteous standing for sinners before God on a just ground, which is Christ’s righteousness (the merits of His obedience unto death for His people) imputed (charged) to them. The Bible teaches that both miracles are totally and exclusively the work of God through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, with no contribution from or participation by those whom God has justified."

- from Bill Parker's book, https://n.b5z.net/i/u/10086795/f/JUSTIFICATION_ESSENTIALS.pdf

More false doctrine.

We are made righteous by the washing of regeneration, also called the circumcision of Christ.

 

[KenH]

We are made righteous by the washing of regeneration, also called the circumcision of Christ.

God's elect have the perfect righteousness of Christ imputed to them.

2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

"made him to be sin" - the sins of God's elect imputed to Christ.

"made the righteousness of God in him" - the perfect righteousness of Christ imputed to God's elect.

 

[Van]

God's elect have the perfect righteousness of Christ imputed to them.

2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

"made him to be sin" - the sins of God's elect imputed to Christ.

"made the righteousness of God in him" - the perfect righteousness of Christ imputed to God's elect.

Complete fiction. Here we have a rewrite of scripture, i.e. changing "made into declared."

 

[kyredneck]

The gospel is a declaration of the salvation that Christ has procured for His people, not an offer.

Agree!

10 but hath now been manifested by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 2 Tim 1

 

[KenH]

If one does not accept the Biblical doctrine of imputation(credited to, charged to), then he does not believe the gospel of Christ.

Romans 4:6-8 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying,

Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven,
And whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

(emphasis mine)