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NASB | Romans 4:6 just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 4:6 And in this same way David speaks of the blessing on the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: |
Subject: Imputed Righteousness |
Bible Note: You wrote: "Then, brother, you will never be sanctified because you have made works a part of the process." Wrong again. Works ARE a part of the process of progressive sanctification. I know that these verses will most likely be ignored, but here goes: "For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you. For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification." --1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 I will let you look up the next verse on your own, since it addresses you. Santification in this life is by the grace of God, but tied to obedience, as we see the connection above. You still have failed to demonstrate how the spirit is exempt from 1 Thessalonians 5:23. "Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord." --Hebrews 12:14 Oh, sanctification is something to be PURSUED. Rather than go on a long treatise on the three aspects of biblical aspects of sanctification (past, present, and future), I will point you to some Web sites that discuss it. I know your mind is made up despite logical, biblical arguments to the contrary, but here goes: http://www.markers.com/ink/aabbsanctif.htm http://www.rts.edu/quarterly/fall99/nicole.html http://www.webgrace.net/sancti.html This is not a view held by people of my Reformed views. I am sure that Tim the Arminian will agree with me on sanctification, and the last link above, being Dispensationalist in perspective, probably is closer to your own views in every way but this one. The fact is that you are not merely accusing me of misunderstanding justification and sanctification; you are being lofty enough to declare most of the greatest theologians in the last half-milennium to be misunderstanding the doctrines. Now in theory it is possible that you are right and EVERYONE on my side (including the Reformers of the church) missed completely, but what do you think the chances of that really are? This is why God has given us the church, by the way, to keep everything from being a subjective "free-for all." "Justification is an act of God’s free grace unto sinners, in which he pardoneth all their sins, accepteth and accounteth their persons righteous in his sight; not for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but only for the perfect obedience and full satisfaction of Christ, by God imputed to them, and received by faith alone." --Westminster Larger Catechism, Answer to Question 70 "Sanctification is a work of God’s grace, whereby they whom God hath, before the foundation of the world, chosen to be holy, are in time, through the powerful operation of his Spirit applying the death and resurrection of Christ unto them, renewed in their whole man after the image of God; having the seeds of repentance unto life, and all other saving graces, put into their hearts, and those graces so stirred up, increased, and strengthened, as that they more and more die unto sin, and rise unto newness of life." WLC, Answer to question 75 You wrote: "Praying you'll rest in Christ's completed work on your behalf." I pray that you will demonstrate your justification through faith alone by your self-sacrifice (Romans 12:1-2), pressing on (Philippians 3:12), striving (Philippians 1:27; Colossians 1:29), and making his calling and election sure (2 Peter 1:10) by obeying His commandments (John 14:26). --Joe! |