Nanja
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Faith is not the believers righteousness ! Christ is !!
The antichrist followers have hijacked a verse of scripture in order to make it mean that men's faith is their righteousness. That scripture is Rom 4:5
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
However, that is not what that verse says or means, because that would constitute Justification/ Righteousness by works, by what a person does or acts!
Instead rather, this verse tells us that Faith realizes that Christ has been made our Righteousness. Paul writes in 1 Cor 1:30
30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
Faith therefore is given so that one may apprehend the fact, the reality, that Christ has of God been made unto us Righteousness. His Righteousness has been charged to ones account because He was made sin for them when He died for them 2 Cor 5:21
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
So God given Faith embraces the reality of this Fact, and so in this sense his faith is counted for righteousness, because it was faith that made it known to his mind and heart, what God in Christ has done !
Amen, false freewill religion believes that a natural man has the ability to get himself saved by his own faith / believing in the flesh 1 Cor. 2:14; Rom. 8:8; Jer. 17:9, or as some say, they have placed their own faith in Christ and are become righteous by performing that action Is. 64:6!
But it's only God-given Faith, a Covenant Blessing to His Elect, which He reveals to a New Heart Ezek. 36:26-27 through the Gospel Rom. 1:16-17 that shall Believe unto Righteousness Rom. 10:10 because of God's Grace which was given to them exclusively, before the world began 2 Tim. 1:9: That Christ as their Covenant Head and Surety Heb. 7:22; Rev. 13:8, before the foundation of the world, imputed their sins to Himself, and His Righteousness to them Rom. 4:6-8.
Rom. 10:10
For with the [New] heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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