Featured Salvation Formula

Does God credit our faith as righteousness? See Romans 4
Do worthless sinners understand and respond to the gospel? See Matthew 13.
Does God transfer individuals into Christ's kingdom? See Colossians 1:13
Are we made righteous in Christ? See Romans 5:19.
Are we made perfect? See Hebrews 12:23
Are we made blameless and holy? See Colossians 1:22
Are we sealed with the Holy Spirit forever? See Ephesians 1:13 and John 14:16

Sounds like the Salvation formula presents "Good News."

 

Yet another bogus assertion, devoid of truth. We who are "in Christ" were chosen corporately, but not individually before creation. However, everyone "in Christ" was also chosen individually after God credited as faith as righteousness. Such a simple concept. Why can you not grasp it and address it. Where does the concept violate or conflict with any scripture. Can you actually present an argument?

 

Your bogus assertions conflict with scripture. 3 or the four soils responded and irresistible grace is not mentioned. You must have read it into the text.

Yes, the ones God credited their faith, are then chosen by being set apart in Christ. 2 Thess. 2:13

How come the men of Matthew 23:13 were "enabled" such that they were entering the kingdom, yet were prevented from going in?

 

Please answer the question and stop changing the subject.

How come the men of Matthew 23:13 were "enabled" such that they were entering the kingdom, yet were prevented from going in?

 

To repeat, Three of the four soils heard, understood, and received the gospel message, therefore your claim the fall resulted in the inability to hear, understand and receive the gospel is unbiblical.

 

2:15 We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified. 2:17 But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not! I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law. 2:19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God. and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing! (NET)

This passage was posted and the suggestion made it conflicts with the Salvation Formula. But just exactly how it conflicts was not explained.

Paul, born of Jewish parents, declares no one is justified by the works of the Law, but instead we are justified by the faithfulness (sacrifice) of Jesus Christ. What "the works of the Law" refers to may be keeping the Law, which is a works based salvation effort. But no one is justified by "the works of the Law."

Next, Paul says they have been justified by believing in the faithfulness of Christ. Again the Salvation Formula presents this truth.

Next, Paul offers a hypothetical, if while seeking to be justified, and therefore not yet chosen and placed in Christ, does that mean Christ encourages sin? Absolutely not. Rather it means that I (Paul) am the one who breaks the law.

Next Paul returns to His actual, in Christ and saved, status, so His physical life after being put into Christ and indwelt with Christ, should be to live for Christ. Thus keeping the Law, is something Paul should strive to do, while knowing that righteousness comes not through his effort, but through Christ. And not eating the right foods or getting circumcised does not diminish the righteousness that comes through Christ.

Paul makes a similar argument that after we are saved, we should not sin so that grace may abound.
We should strive to be faithful like Jesus was, doing our best to keep in the center of God's will.

Nothing in this passage, or anywhere else in scripture that I am aware of, does the Salvation Formula conflict.

 

Revealing Grace + Repentance + Faith + Election + Spiritual Baptism + Conversion + Indwelling = Salvation + Good Works

 

Spiritual Baptism = God sets a person apart by placing them spiritually “in Christ.”

Conversion = Once “in Christ” a person undergoes the circumcision of Christ and arises “in Christ” a new creation, created for good works. It is a spiritual work of God, not us changing our minds.

Indwelling = After God puts us spiritually in Christ, He seals us in Christ with the Holy Spirit forever. The Holy Spirit provides each born again (converted) believer with light to understand the meat of God’s word, awareness of the will of God, and brings to mind our sins such that we are convicted. As we grow more mature, we will exhibit the fruit of the Spirit.

 

Lets see, I present my view but you do not present an alternate view.

Difficult to come to a common understanding under that arrangement.

We are chosen individually when God credits our faith as righteousness and transfers us out of the realm of darkness (in Adam) and into the kingdom of His beloved Son, Col. 1:13. The "sanctification by the Spirit" also refers to God setting us apart in Christ. (2 Thess. 2:13) Ditto the "sanctifying work of the Spirit, 1 Peter 1:1-2. Then we have 1 Cor. 1:30 where God puts us in Christ. And of course we have

Romans 6:1-4:
6 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

John 6:37 All that the Father gives Me will come [be transferred] to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.

Note that the result of being given to Christ results in the person being "in Christ" because Christ promises to not cast the person out.

This action by God to give us to Christ is the Spiritual Baptism term of the formula.

 

What do you have to say about scripture. It takes no study to say "taint so."