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When did that happen?
Originally answered by Nang
The righteousness of Jesus Christ was imputed to His children when He worked their justification in His death and resurrection.
But His death Jesus made peace with God on behalf to the already justified righteous, either living or dead. Jesus didn’t have to call them to repentance unless you wish to hold to the mis-interpreted rendering of Rom.3:10 as being the situation. Then you are left with a dilemma that can’t be remedied by reform doctrine. BTW, Who are the “children” of Jesus you are alluding to?
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Some would say [I don't] that is works salvation. What do you say?
I do not believe in any kind of a "works salvation." Sinners are saved by grace, alone, and justified by faith, alone, *in the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ, alone.
*in or “by”. Perhaps you mean to being saying the sinner is saved by placing his faith in Christ Jesus, alone? However, I asked about progressive sanctification or growing from Spiritual childhood to Spiritual son-ship in God by the purposed tutoring of the Holy Spirit per John 1:12 KJV. and also in his letters. Given John 17:3 I assumed you would consider that all to be classed as, works salvation. I don’t and call it the journey Home that only a born again Christian is able enter into.
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Do you know of any who have come to salvation by any so-called "drawing power" of the law? I don't.
But, where is it that the law has drawing power. It didn’t draw Paul and one might suppose it would, being the blameless man that he was. Lets add vs 45: and see what we might find:
“It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.” John 6:45 (KJV) Paul had heard/read the law and was proficient in keeping but, he had not learned the Father. Doesn’t give you pause? The only one who might come close would be Nicodemus.
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David was old covenant and God's promises OT/NT are all conditional.
All the sons of the first Adam are born into this world, under the Old Covenant of Works,
To what end, salvation or favor? cf Gen.4:7 KJV
but when God gifts them with faith to believe in Christ, they are brought under the better and New Covenant of Grace . . . Which I believe is totally unconditional.
There are too many “IF’s” in the Bible for God’s gifts to be unconditional. Why not look into that? Even redemption, a new foundation on which man is purposed to build upon his free new, redeemed, life is not without a caveat, i.e., one must be born again to even begin to built upon it. First, there is a covenant relationship that must be agreed upon by both parties. Only One of the parties paid the cost to bring it into existence, the other is offered it but is required to count the cost he must pay to satisfy the agreement. There is can be no compromising in this. Once signed is it consummated and sealed. Break it on penalty of death.
In addition man being given a freewill, from birth is man “gifted” a measure of faith to believe for God in his life. However, because God wants sons and not sons by coercion, God also subjected man to vanity that placed upon him a responsibility for his choices. A subjection to purposed to be lifted had Adam had ‘made the cut’ in the obedience department. He didn’t and by failure, the subjection became a bondage, a venue for sin that would continually couch at his door, waiting for an opening to his soul Gen 4:7 KJV.
So we can easily see from the above that, if correct, everything God offered man was in promise form. It had to be that way for God to bring “many sons unto glory” as the vast family He longed for with the “Word” as the center piece of this new glorified creation. He would continue to favor His children into sonship and even into begetting fathers, full of the Holy Ghost in/by their obedience to His commands and chastisement as a loving Father until of age and adoption [translation].
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To deny God's words is to deny Him.
The same can be said about Jesus Who is NOW the “Word” and center piece as mentioned above. Jesus lived by the written word of God to arrive safely to His eternal destination in the Godhead. If we are swerious about Him we should secure to ourselves the same words he lived by __new mss notwithstanding.
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OMT: Please accept my apology for my shortsightedness_ rudeness.
Thank you, but not really necessary. It is easy to misunderstand each other on these imperfect forums.
Thank you, however, I knew what I was doing and I was wrong in my disposition.