(Read some notions spouted on a reformed group on Facebook)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/775537956487669/posts/1492075451500579/
Sing F Lau
No righteousness of Christ, no
gospel.
Romans 1
17 For therein is the
righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just
shall live by faith.
Jeff Thomas
Righteousness of God is the imputed (charged to the account) righteousness in
the remission of sins.
God declares the
account is no longer unrighteous in the matter that was forgiven.
The Gospel is the good news regarding the remission of sins.
Sing F Lau
The good
news regarding the remission of sins is based solely and wholly on Christ's
perfect obedience (securing the righteousness for our justification) and death
(enduring the wrath of God for our forgiveness.).
No righteousness of Christ, no
gospel.
Romans 1
16 ¶For I am not
ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to
every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein is the
righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just
shall live by faith.
For THEREIN (i.e. in the gospel) is the righteousness OF God's provision in Jesus Christ revealed from faith (that of the preacher who is not ashamed to preach the gospel) to faith (that of an effectually called elect who needs to be converted through the hearing of the gospel).
Jeff Thomas
You're inventing
theosophy there. And you preached heresy...
Jesus's obedience to
accomplish the sin offering is righteousness, but the righteousness imputed to
men by God is not his righteousness in obedience.
God recompenses unto
every man according to his deeds (Romans 2:6). The righteousness and or
unrighteousness of men is according to their own deeds.
Ezekiel 18:20 The
soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the
father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the
righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the
wicked shall be upon him.
The forgiveness of
sins results in unrighteousness being cleansed or washed away and, the sentence
due for sin is remitted. When unrighteousness is washed away, it leaves the
person righteous or cleansed in the matter. This is imputed righteousness.
God doesn't give someone else's good deeds to you, he forgives sins. Remission
is via Christ. Hence it's the righteousness of God... God charges the account
which was in sin no longer unrighteous in the matter that's forgiven.
Jesus never suffered
any wrath, what a moronic anti-Christ ideology.
To suffer wrath the
person must be imputed unrighteousness (charged with doing iniquity). Jesus was
never charged with iniquity. Wrath is "the just punishment for a
crime" (sin). God, who Jesus is, can't execute wrath on an innocent, that
would make God, who Jesus is, unjust and himself, full of iniquity. And since Jesus
is God, your imbecilic doctrine is teaching God executed wrath on himself...
and that again would mean Jesus is wicked for doing injustice.
Christ is the sin
offering and scapegoat offering. By his death, which was not punishment for he
laid his life down, God conciliated mercy, a propitious disposition. God tasted
death of the flesh or body and it moved him to be pitious to sinners who are
condemned to immediate execution of death and therefore to be put to death in
the flesh. He is the propitiation for the sins of the whole world. A
propitiation is required to make propitious (gracious and merciful). So all
that sin are preserved from destruction because of the mercies of God which he,
God, conciliated in and through Christ. The death of Christ wasn't punishment
(wrath) any more than the death of Stephen or Paul..
Because sinners have
mercy, they continue to live. Because they continue to live, they CAN seek the
remission of sins and by the remission of sins, the sentence of death is
remitted... God surrenders his right to punish (remittance).
The Gospel of Jesus
Christ is the good news that the Saviour, taught to Adam and mankind, has come
according to the scriptures. He was provided to be the propitiation for sins.
Through Christ, sinners can obtain the remission of sins.
The righteousness of
God is the remission of sins, God declares the forgiven sinner is no longer
unrighteous.
Romans 3:25 Whom God
hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance
of God;
And there is no
"effectual called elect" (smh). Your invented religiosity is
nauseating.
Election in
scripture refers to serving and servants called to some serving purpose.
The Biblical elect are the Jews.
Sing F Lau
Sin is the
transgression of God's law and brings condemnation and death.
Righteousness is
obedience to God's law, and secured justification and life.
Romans 5:18 KJV — 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.
Jeff Thomas
You're an unlearned
man.
The word "justify" and
its variants mean to show or prove to be conformed to something.
JUSTIFY, v.t. [L.
justus, just, and facio, to make.]
1. To prove or show
to be just, or conformable to...
JUSTIFY, v.i. to
suit; to conform exactly; in printing to form an even surface or true line with
something else.
God wants all men
without exception to be without blame... without sin. In the forgiveness of
sins a person is declared without blame, without sin, without unrighteousness
in that matter of forgiveness. They are therefore 'justified' or made or shown
to be conformed exactly to what God wants for them I'm that matter.
In Romans 5:18 the
phrase "justification unto life" is referring to be made conformed to
live since the wages of sin is death (put to death in the flesh) and requires
mercy in order to not be destroyed (Lamentations 3:22).
The free gift is the
grace and mercy of God. This propitious disposition was won, gained or
conciliated by the death of the sin offering. Christ's obedience in laying down
his life to be the sin offering and atone for the Omnipresence of God, is what
obtained the very mercy that every human being without exception enjoys all the
days of their lives.
The free gift is
grace. Grace is common to all men. All men, without exception, are by the grace
of God, justified unto life.
"When I see the
blood I will pass over you"
If a man is drawing
the breath of life, it's because the Destroyer is passing over them for
all have sinned and the wages of sin is death.
No Calvinist has ever had a clue what Romans 5 is teaching...
Sing F Lau
Thank you for demonstrating that you are a learned man.
"The free gift
is grace. Grace is common to all men. All men without exception are by the grace
of God, justified unto life...'
These are learned statements indeed!
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p/s
"The free gift is grace."
The free gift is eternal salvation; grace speaks of the manner eternal salvation is bestowed to justly condemned sinners, i.e. freely without any condition.
"Grace is common to all men."
Grace is particular; God elected to save a particular people; Christ secured eternal salvation for the same particular people; the Spirit of God applies eternal salvation to the same particular people individually who were dead in trespasses and sin.
"All men without exception are by the grace of God, justified unto life." If this were true, then hell and the Lake of fire is a big lie.
