"The just shall live by faith" has been grotesquely twisted and perverted

A massive theological blunder with Gen 15:6;
A grotesque twisting and perversion with Rom 1:17

"The just shall live by faith."

It's Jan 15 today; so you would have read Gen 15 today if you are an a-chapter-a-day Bible reader! Surely you noted verse 6 which is referenced in the NT on numerous occasions.

6¶And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Vast multitudes, including the Reformed folks, insist that it was at this point that Abraham was justified by God, and through his faith.

A few thoughts on this idea.

1. This popular idea necessarily implies that prior to this incident, Abraham was not yet justified by God.

- A man is either justified by God or he is still in his native state of condemnation and death. There is no middle ground that I have heard of.

- When you were reading through Gen 11-14, what kind of a man do you see in Abram? Do you see a man still in his native state of condemnation and death; or do you see a man whom God has called out of his native state of condemnation and death to that state of  justification and life? What did you see?

- Romans 5:18 "Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life."

- A man is either in his native state of condemnation and death or he has been called out of that state unto justification of life. There is no intermediate state between the two. It is solely by divine grace that a man is transferred from his native state into the state of grace and salvation.

2. Pay attention to the verse following, verse 7:

"And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it."

- When the LORD brought Abram out of Ur of the Chaldees many years before, did God leave him in his native state of condemnation and death, or had God already effectually called him out of his native state of condemnation of death to that state of justification and life?

- Just what kind of a man do you see Abram in Gen 11-14? A man already justified by God, freely by His grace, and regenerated, and adopted, given the Spirit of adoption?

- How do you explain the faith of Abram in obeying God and leaving Ur of the Chaldees? How do you explain his obedience, acts of worship, and the building altars and offering sacrifices?

- Hebrews 11:8 KJV — "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went."

3. Gen 15:6 KJV - "And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness."

- A simple question, what did the LORD  account to Abram in this passage? To what does the pronoun 'it' refer?

- Please be reminded that in the justification of a condemned man, the condemned man's faith is not in the equation; why? Very simply, the condemned man is incapable of such faith.

- In the justification of the condemned man, the LORD God freely accounts (applies) the righteousness of Jesus Christ to the condemned man personally. 

- Romans 3:24 KJV — "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." It is through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; IT IS NOT through the faith of the unjustified condemned man. You are not too blind to see this plain obvious truth, are you? 

- To what does the pronoun 'it' refer to? It is a theological gymnastics to imagine it to be the righteousness of Christ! It is a monumental theological disaster to do so. 
- Have a look at this article - A Massive Theological Blunder by the Reformed Folks: https://things-new-and-old.blogspot.com/2011/12/massive-theological-blunder-by-reformed.html

- Abram believed and his believing in the promised seed is accounted to him for righteousness, i.e. his faith was blessed to him to experience the blessedness of his righteousness, even his justified righteous state. That was his wonderful experience.

4. Gen 15:6 is not about how a condemned man is justified by God. That the fiction and fable spawned and popularised by the Protestant Reformation. It was not the Scriptures' teaching.

- Gen 15:6 is about how a justified man - freely by the grace of God alone, Rom 3:24 - experience the blessedness of his justified state; it is NOT through observing any ceremonial laws like circumcision, but simply believing in the promised seed.

-  Romans 4:1 KJV "What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?" What was the experience of Abraham, asked the Apostle Paul? Did he experience that blessedness through observing some ceremonial laws? 

- Apostle Paul marshaled Abram to refute the error of the Jewish believers who insisted that the justified Gentile believers must observe the ceremonial laws.

5. Gen 15:6 is the basis for the famous "the just shall live by faith."

- But this simple statement of fact about the just, i.e. it declares something about the just, the just shall live by faith.

- But this simple declaration about the just has BEEN GROTESQUELY TWISTED AND PERVERTED, by even the smart elitist Reformed folks to say what the unjustified condemned must do in order to be justified.

- They have to twist plain and simple declaration about the justified to suit their subtle and beloved and cherished lie of sola fide!

- "The just shall live by faith" has been distorted and deformed to mean "the condemned shall be justified by faith alone" - all to conform with the reformed idea of "sola fide."

- Apostle Paul appealed to Gen 15:6 to demonstrate that how a justified man experienced the blessedness of his justified state, simply through faith, THAT IS, the just shall live by faith.

May the Lord open your eyes to see these things, and make you wise unto your salvation by the free grace of God through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Don't be numbered among those whom Apostle Paul described as: "Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." 2Tim 3:7.