Thereby skating quickly past my whole point. Check out Is.55:10-11.
Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
----- Original Message -----
From: Janice Matchett
To: George Murphy ; Peter Ruest ; Jon Tandy
Cc: asa@calvin.edu
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: The wrong horse in evolution education
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: Janice Matchett
To: Peter Ruest ; Jon Tandy
Cc: 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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