October
25, 2018
https://www.facebook.com/sing.f.lau/posts/10212585448006643
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Brett Noll quoted from a certain Hooker these words to validate his golden calf
of justification by faith alone.
"Christ
hath merited righteousness for as many as are found in him. In him God findeth
us, if we be faithful; for by faith we are incorporated into him. Then,
although in ourselves we be altogether sinful and unrighteous, yet even the man
who in himself is impious, full of iniquity, full of sin; him being found in
Christ by faith, and having his sin in hatred through repentance; him God
beholdeth with a gracious eye, putteth away his sin by not imputing it, taketh
quite away the punishment due thereto, by pardoning it; and accepteth him in
Jesus Christ, as perfectly righteous, as if he had fulfilled all that is
commanded him in the law: shall I say, more perfectly righteous than if himself
had fulfilled the whole law?..."
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Let
me correct the first two sentences above:
"Christ
hath merited righteousness for as many as (are found in him) WERE GIVEN TO Him.
In him God (findeth) EFFECTUALLY CALLED us,
(if) WHEN (we be faithful) WERE DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SINS for by
(faith) that FREE AND GRACIOUS CALL we are (incorporated into) VITALLY UNITED
TO him.
"Christ hath merited righteousness for as many as are found in him. In him God findeth us, if we be faithful; for by faith we are incorporated into him.
"Christ hath merited righteousness for as many as were given to Him. In him, God effectually called us, when we're dead in trespasses and sins; for by that free and gracious call, we are vitally united to him.
My
reply... after his endless comments.
That's
a damnable "if" - "... if we be faithful...", but you are
too blind to even notice it. What has bewitched you?
In
Christ, God found us when we were dead in trespasses and sins. Christ sought
and saved us when we were lost, when dead in trespasses and sins, separated
from God..... NOT "if we be faithful."
For
by GRACE an elect is INCORPORATED, united to Christ through the effectual
calling out of his state of sin and death into the state of grace and salvation
in Jesus Christ.
Having
been UNITED to Christ by God's free and gracious act, i.e. brought out of his
native state of sin, death, and condemnation to that of righteousness, life, and
justification, an elect is ABLE TO
BELIEVE, in believing he is experientially united to Christ. He is united to
Christ in his CONSCIOUS experience.
A
child who realizes and believes that a man (his father) IS the father
experiences that union with the man; he is experientially united with his
father.
I just feel that you are SO dumb down by your prejudices... it's beginning to annoy me.
Christ
merited righteousness for as many as God had given to Him; He merited the
righteousness for them by His life of perfect and sinless obedience and
sacrificial death on the cross.
It was merited for Brett Noll when he did not personally exist yet, not if or when Brett Noll is faithful.
