Imputed Righteousness

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Yes.

John 8:47 (ESV)
Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.

1 John 5:10, . . . he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

 

[KenH]

Not so. The verses referring to propitiation tell us that it is a reality that has already been accomplished. Jesus declared that it is finished. You're reading a potentiality into those texts that simply isn’t there.

Spot on. Any supposed gospel message that demands that man contribute to some degree, in some fashion, in order to make it effectual is really no gospel at all.

 

[KenH]

1 John 5:10, . . . he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

Which is what those whom God reprobated do - they don't believe the record.

 

[Van]

Time and again, differing posters make or seem to make this claim, we, those saved, became righteous because God imputed or declared or credited as as righteous.

I believe this view is absolutely bogus.

Let us consider this view from scripture.

Romans 4:6 NASB
just as David also speaks of the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

Here many apparently believe this verse say God causes a person to be righteous by crediting or imputing or declaring the person righteous.
But contextually, since the previous verse says God credits a person's faith as righteous, the same idea is probably in view. In other words blessings upon the person whose faith God credits as righteousness.

Philippians 3:9 says that if we are found spiritually "in Him," but we, not having a righteousness of our own derived from the Law, but having a righteousness that is through Jesus Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of credited faith. Thus we are made righteous, not by imputation or being credited as being righteous, but by the washing of regeneration, the circumcision of Christ.

Summary, If God decides to credit our faith as righteousness to us, that does not make us righteous, but based on crediting our faith as righteousness, God then transfers us spiritually into Christ where we undergo the washing of regeneration which makes us righteous.

Last point, we become the righteousness of God only when we are "in Him."

Truth cannot be buried even under 17 pages of diversionary posts.

 

[Van]

Here is the fiction:
1. T = Total Spiritual Inability, the lost are unable to understand spiritual milk.
2. U = Unconditional Election, God chose foreseen individuals before creation without regard to whether He foresaw crediting their faith as righteousness.
3. L = Limited Atonement, Christ died for those to be saved, and did not purchase those not to be saved.
4. I = Irresistible Grace, God 'regenerates those spiritually dead, so they are enabled and compelled to believe before they are "in Christ."
5 P = Those born anew persevere in their walk, and do not backslide

And here is the biblical truth:
1. Luke 13:24 demonstrates man, in his depraved fallen state, has the ability to seek God without the compulsion or enablement of irresistible grace.
2. 2 Thessalonians 2:13 teaches we are chosen for salvation through faith in the truth, thus our individual election is conditional.
3. 1 Timothy 2:6 teaches Christ died for all people, even those never to be saved. 2 Peter 2:1
4. Luke 13:24 and Matthew 23:13 demonstrate the lost are able to seek and to find, yet can still be prevented from entering the kingdom. Thus God's grace of invitation is not irresistible.
5. Yes, 1 Peter 1:3-5 teaches we are kept by the power of God, so once saved, always saved, so Preservation of the Saint, not Continuous Perseverance of the Saints.

 

[JesusFan]

Here is the fiction:
1. T = Total Spiritual Inability, the lost are unable to understand spiritual milk.
2. U = Unconditional Election, God chose foreseen individuals before creation without regard to whether He foresaw crediting their faith as righteousness.
3. L = Limited Atonement, Christ died for those to be saved, and did not purchase those not to be saved.
4. I = Irresistible Grace, God 'regenerates those spiritually dead, so they are enabled and compelled to believe before they are "in Christ."
5 P = Those born anew persevere in their walk, and do not backslide

And here is the biblical truth:
1. Luke 13:24 demonstrates man, in his depraved fallen state, has the ability to seek God without the compulsion or enablement of irresistible grace.
2. 2 Thessalonians 2:13 teaches we are chosen for salvation through faith in the truth, thus our individual election is conditional.
3. 1 Timothy 2:6 teaches Christ died for all people, even those never to be saved. 2 Peter 2:1
4. Luke 13:24 and Matthew 23:13 demonstrate the lost are able to seek and to find, yet can still be prevented from entering the kingdom. Thus God's grace of invitation is not irresistible.
5. Yes, 1 Peter 1:3-5 teaches we are kept by the power of God, so once saved, always saved, so Preservation of the Saint, not Continuous Perseverance of the Saints.

The Doctrines of grace are indeed found in the bible, but your so called doctrines of free will are not