At 02:35 PM 4/3/2006, George Murphy wrote:
>"... Thus in the act of declaring the sinner righteousness, God
>makes, or begins to make, the sinner righteous. .."
@ Really? "The protestant reformation was based upon an
understanding of justification as "a declaration of righteousness"
not "a making righteous in character." [snip]
Salvation terms compared - from my book Charts of Christian Theology
and Doctrine by H. Wayne House, Zondervan
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:XepjvPkZIg8J:www.apttoteach.org/Theology/07Salvation/710_Salvation_Continu.doc+h+wayne+house+salvation+terms+compared+justification&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=7
[snip]
D. The relationship between justification and sanctification
1. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that justification and
sanctification are basically the same.
a. God's grace makes the believer righteous through the power of the
Holy Spirit.
b. The "new birth" (a clean heart) produces fruit (a good life) that
justifies a person before God.
c. There is no absolute assurance of salvation until the judgment
although we are to derive assurance from Christ as we follow Him.
2. The protestant reformation was based upon an understanding of
justification as "a declaration of righteousness" not "a making
righteous in character."
a. "Justify" (Greek - dikaiow) and "condemn" are contrasted in
Rom.8:33-34 "Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the
one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He
who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of
God, who also intercedes for us." Note also Prov.17:15 "He who
justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike
an abomination to the Lord."
b. The verbal ending (in Greek) -ow, as in dikaiow, does not carry
the meaning "to make something a particular way." That, rather, is
the signification of -azw, as in agiazw ("to make holy"). The ending
-ow, by contrast, signifies "to declare something to be a particular
way," as in axiow ("to deem worthy").
c. Rom.4:5 "But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who
justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness, just
as David also speaks of the blessing upon the man to whom God reckons
righteousness apart from works:"
d. Eph.2:8-9 "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God; not as a result of
works, that no one should boast ---"
e. Rom.6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God
is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Gal.3:6 "Even so Abraham
believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness."
Titus 2:11-12 "for the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation
to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desire and
to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,"
3. Completed Justification is the foundation for dynamic Sanctification.
[snip] Continue here to see charts:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:XepjvPkZIg8J:www.apttoteach.org/Theology/07Salvation/710_Salvation_Continu.doc+h+wayne+house+salvation+terms+compared+justification&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=7
~ Janice
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:janmatch@earthlink.net>Janice Matchett
>To: <mailto:pruest@mysunrise.ch>Peter Ruest ;
><mailto:tandyland@earthlink.net>Jon Tandy
>Cc: <mailto:asa@calvin.edu>asa@calvin.edu
>Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 12:32 PM
>Subject: RE: The wrong horse in evolution educationAt 10:33 AM
>4/3/2006, Peter Ruest wrote:
>".. sin is not inherited."
@ The sin of Adam is imputed to all human beings. (Just as the
righteousness of Christ is imputed to those that God elected out from
among the sinners before the foundation of the earth.)
We are guilty before God on three counts.
1. Individual sin - Personal sin is the form of sin which includes
everything in the daily life of an individual person which is against
or fails to conform to the character of God. Rom.3:23 "for all have
sinned and fall short of the glory of God." .."
2. Inherited sin (the sin nature, original sin). Rom.5:19 "For as
through the one man's disobedience the many were made
sinners", Eph.2:3 "Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts
of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and
were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest."
3. Imputed sin - Sin is also presented in Scripture as reckoned to
our account. Rom.5:12-18 .
a. There are three great imputations in the Christian faith.
1. The imputation of Adam's sin to all people.
2. The imputation of our sin to Christ on the cross.
3. The imputation of Christ's righteousness to the believer by faith.
The above is excerpted from my book "Charts of Christian Theology and
Doctrine" by H.Wayne House, Zondervan Publishing House, 1992
You may see the charts on this subject here:
Pelagian / semi-Pelagian (Arminian) views are noted also.
~ Janice
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