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“IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS” is righteousness that comes from CHRIST alone through faith in his atoning sacrifice on Calvary!!!
Imputed righteousness is what justifies us before GOD.
EPHESIANS 2:8-9
“FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED THROUGH FAITH; AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES: IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD: NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST.”
ROMANS 5:1
“THEREFORE BEING JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST:”
PHILIPPIANS 3:9
“AND BE FOUND IN HIM, NOT HAVING MINE OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH IS OF THE LAW, BUT THAT WHICH IS THROUGH THE FAITH OF CHRIST, THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS OF GOD BY FAITH:”
II CORINTHIANS 5:21
“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.”
GALATIANS 2:16
“KNOWING THAT A MAN IS NOT JUSTIFIED BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW, BUT BY THE FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST, EVEN WE HAVE BELIEVED IN JESUS CHRIST, THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY THE FAITH OF CHRIST, AND NOT BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW: FOR BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW SHALL NO FLESH BE JUSTIFIED.”
I PETER 2:24
“WHO HIS OWN SELF BARE OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BODY ON THE TREE, THAT WE, BEING DEAD TO SINS, SHOULD LIVE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS: BY WHOSE STRIPES YE WERE HEALED.”
ROMANS 1:17
“FOR THEREIN IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD REVEALED FROM FAITH TO FAITH: AS IT IS WRITTEN, THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.”
ROMANS 4:3
“FOR WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE? ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS COUNTED UNTO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
GALATIANS 2:20
“I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST: NEVERTHELESS I LIVE; YET NOT I, BUT CHRIST LIVETH IN ME: AND THE LIFE WHICH I NOW LIVE IN THE FLESH I LIVE BY THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD, WHO LOVED ME, AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME.”
ROMANS 3:22
“EVEN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WHICH IS BY FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST UNTO ALL AND UPON ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE: FOR THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE:”
ROMANS 8:1
“THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO THEM WHICH ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT.”
I CORINTHIANS 1:30
“BUT OF HIM ARE YE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO OF GOD IS MADE UNTO US WISDOM, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND SANCTIFICATION, AND REDEMPTION:”
COLOSSIANS 2:14
“BLOTTING OUT THE HANDWRITING OF ORDINANCES THAT WAS AGAINST US, WHICH WAS CONTRARY TO US, AND TOOK IT OUT OF THE WAY, NAILING IT TO HIS CROSS;”
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Varnel Watson
RichardAnna Boyce I think it was Wayne Scott who claimed to have proven that the Bible adequately defines foundational New Covenant but he did not really prove anything to that extent
Words and the definitions often contradict what is written in dictionaries. Bible dictionaries which do not contain the author’s prejudiced opinion?” Steve Celich rightly provided the book of Romans which also teaches the effects of imputed righteousness which are growing practical righteousness…ch. 6, 7 and 8.
“IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS” is righteousness that comes from CHRIST alone through faith in his atoning sacrifice on Calvary!!!
Imputed righteousness is what justifies us before GOD.
EPHESIANS 2:8-9
“FOR BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED THROUGH FAITH; AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES: IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD: NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST.”
ROMANS 5:1
“THEREFORE BEING JUSTIFIED BY FAITH, WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST:”
PHILIPPIANS 3:9
“AND BE FOUND IN HIM, NOT HAVING MINE OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH IS OF THE LAW, BUT THAT WHICH IS THROUGH THE FAITH OF CHRIST, THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS OF GOD BY FAITH:”
II CORINTHIANS 5:21
“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.”
Philip Williams
Troy Day but if it never gets imparted it only brings judgment on the hypocrites.
Louise Cummings
Philip Williams it sounds to me like He took our sins and nailed them to the Cross. And imputed Righteousness. Of course we have to except the forgiveness, after we repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, for Him to impute Righteousness. Him being nailed to the tree or Cross.it gives everyone a chance to come to him , and believe. But some doesn’t believe. But to the ones that does believe. To them , are the ones that He imputes Righteousness.
Philip Williams
Louise Cummings
I believe that it’s a genuine righteousness rather than legal fiction, that we must love Jesus and allow him to change us to become conformed to his true image.
Does that make sense?
Varnel Watson
I believe what God believes …
Charles Page
Philip Williams you don’t believe in legal forensic righteousness given apart from ourselves?
Varnel Watson
Charles Page sounds like a papal indulgence
Philip Williams
Charles Page of course that can only be given by God. But if you are still sinning, you shore enuff ain’t got it.
Charles Page
Philip Williams is legal righteousness given conditionally?
Philip Williams
Charles Page God doesn’t give legal fictions.
Philip Williams
Charles Page and man’s legal fictions don’t give him bad eyesight.
Charles Page
Philip Williams If it’s fiction then it’s God’s fiction
Charles Page
if you have legal fictional righteousness then God gave it to ya!
Philip Williams
Charles Page
No, it’s a fiction created by the Reformers. But they didn’t die for our sins. Neither did Jesus appoint them to lay the foundation of the faith once and for all time entrusted to the saints.
Charles Page
Philip Williams reformers understand righteousness to be earned through believing
Philip Williams
Charles Page
Pentecostals once believed in holiness. How did they become so apostate?
Philip Williams
Charles Page oh my! Sounds like you have even abandoned repentance.
Charles Page
Philip Williams oh no, I got repentance on the right side of regeneration
Philip Williams
I am surprised to find hyper-Calvinists in a Pentecostal forum. ?
Philip Williams
Charles Page Did you make a decision to repent and turn to God?
Charles Page
Philip Williams some holiness people embrace baptistic
Philip Williams
“He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.” Mark 16:15-16
Philip Williams
Charles Page Did you decide to believe?
Philip Williams
Charles Page are you a Presbyterian?
Charles Page
Philip Williams all regenerate who hear the preached word should repent
Philip Williams
Charles Page how is anyone going to become regenerated until they do repent?
Louise Cummings
Judge it and see if I explained it like I wanted it explained it correctly.
Charles Page
Philip Williams no I am not Presbyterian- I don’t believe in a mediated new birth. -neither baptismal nor decisional
Philip Williams
Charles Page so you haven’t repented of your sins?
Charles Page
Philip Williams I believe in a singular predestined new birth
Philip Williams
Charles Page you definitely aren’t a Pentecostal.
Charles Page
Philip Williams yes indeed
Philip Williams
Charles Page you are wanting to deny your responsibility and blame all on God. That’s childish at best.
Philip Williams
Charles Page you need to accept responsibility!
Charles Page
Philip Williams I am baptized in the Spirit with initial evidence
Philip Williams
Charles Page so you were baptized without repenting?
Charles Page
Philip Williams I am responsible to God, obeying the word
Philip Williams
Charles Page That’s definitely not(!) obeying the word.
Philip Williams
Sounds like the nonsense of that Joseph Prince apostate.
Charles Page
Philip Williams prince of peace
Philip Williams
Charles Page child of the prince of the air.
Charles Page
Philip Williams I am surprised by your intolerance
Thur what filter are you making judgements?
Philip Williams
Charles Page same fatalistic theology as Mohammed.
Philip Williams
Charles Page I am(!) intolerant of falsehood.
Philip Williams
Charles Page you are thinking like this wicked and adulterous world.
Philip Williams
Charles Page I believe in the straight and narrow way. Broad is the way that leads to destruction and many go that way. But few are those who find the way to life.
Charles Page
many are called but I am chosen!
Philip Williams
Speaking in tongues won’t get you into Heaven.
Philip Williams
Charles Page I can see that you are self appointed. ?
Charles Page
Philip Williams
Philip Williams
Charles Page not even Paul took that for granted, even near the end of his journey:
“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,” Philippians 3:12-13
Philip Williams
Charles Page most fall away!
Philip Williams
Charles Page going to church and speaking in tongues doesn’t get you into Heaven.
RichardAnna Boyce
While there are many passages which speak of righteousness which is imputed to the believer (e.g., Rom 4:3-6; 2 Cor 5:21; Gal 3:6), the majority of passages speaking about righteousness do not refer to imputed righteousness. Rather, they refer to lives which are actually characterized by righteous deeds!
The terms righteous, righteousness, and righteously (Gk. dikaios, dikaiosune, and dikaios) occur nearly 200 times in the New Testament. | Publications | For More Information |
Do All True Believers Live Righteous Lives?
Righteousness in the Pastoral Epistles
by Bob Wilkin
While there are many passages which speak of righteousness which is imputed to the believer (e.g., Rom 4:3-6; 2 Cor 5:21; Gal 3:6), the majority of passages speaking about righteousness do not refer to imputed righteousness. Rather, they refer to lives which are actually characterized by righteous deeds!
The terms righteous, righteousness, and righteously (Gk. dikaios, dikaiosune, and dikaios) occur nearly 200 times in the New Testament.
There are three possible ways to understand these references. The Arminian view understands these passages to be calling genuine believers to live righteously in their experience. Believers are viewed as being in danger of not living righteously. The consequence is seen as loss of salvation.
The Reformed view interprets these verses to be calling professing believers to live righteously in their experience. Genuine believers will do so. Guaranteed. False professors will not. The consequence of not living righteously is seen as hell. However, loss of salvation is not suggested. Rather, since according to this view God guarantees that all believers will live righteously, those who fail to do so prove that they aren’t genuine believers.
The Free Grace view sees in these references a call to genuine believers to live righteously in their experience. Believers are viewed as being in danger of not doing so. The consequence is seen not as loss of salvation or proof that one was never saved in the first place, but loss of joy and peace now and loss of rewards eternally.
The Arminian view is ruled out since the Scriptures clearly teach that believers can’t lose their salvation (e.g., John 5:24; Rom 8:38-39).
The Reformed view is eliminated for two reasons. First, Timothy and Titus were not merely professing believers. They were clearly true believers. Yet they were being commanded to pursue righteousness.
Second, it is clear from the contexts that compliance to these commands was not guaranteed. This can be easily seen, for instance, by comparing 1 Cor 9:24-27 with 2 Tim 4:6-8. Paul earlier in his life had feared not being approved by the Lord. Yet as the Lord reveals to him that he is about to die, he knows that the crown of righteousness is laid up for him. Why? Because he persevered in living righteously.
The Free Grace view is all that remains. Genuine believers like Timothy and Titus need to pursue righteousness. If they do, they too will receive the crown of righteousness which is reserved for all who love the Lord’s appearing (2 Tim 4:8). Clearly this is a rewards issue. What is at stake is eternal rewards, not eternal salvation.
How does this impact us? It means we must exert daily effort to be righteous! It means that righteousness is an achievable aim! It means that righteousness is not perfection.
Practical righteousness is a life of obedience. It is a life characterized by godly and holy behavior. It is not, however, a sinless life.
Varnel Watson
Charles Page Philip Williams can yall settle at least that imputed means in put it – like in God in you put it?
Philip Williams
Charles Page
I am convicted by the Holy Spirit who is indeed the guarantor of salvation of my unjust words to you. However much I disagree with your Reformed theology, you serve the Lord out of love for him.
Charles Page
my beliefs line up more with Primitive Baptist as opposed to reformed theology. We both serve the Lord out of love.
Philip Williams
Charles Page Primitive Baptist very Calvinistic. But aren’t you suppose to be Pentecostal. 🙂
Charles Page
I am not exclusively PB. I just find familiarioty with their old school views and opposed to the New School advocated by The Cincinnati congregation. Most of the PBs in my area are new school and are becoming compatible with Reformed Baptist.
The old school adhere to the 5 points of Calvinism with a singular predestination of the elect. The old school denies a double predestination / reprobation
Louise Cummings
Philip Williams that’s a good answer. If we are not genuine. We really don’t Know what the real feeling of the presence of the Lord feels like.
Philip Williams
Charles Page I was about to put you with R.T. Kendall, but I think he is New School. How can you be 5-point and not double predestination?
Charles Page
legal imputation to our account so that we stand before God righteous. Impartation is righteousness is righteousness applied to us so that we stand experientially holy before God.
Philip Williams
Charles Page where do you find legal(!) imputation in the Bible? Luther did that with Commerce contract reasoning.
Charles Page
Philip Williams Rom. 3:21, 22; 10:3; Philippians 3:9; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Romans 4:6; Colossians 3
Philip Williams
Charles Page Oh my! Those are references to the Law of Moses that ends with Christ’s death on the cross. Luther misread them. Are you familiar with the discussions regarding the so-called New Perspective on Paul (the NPP)?
Charles Page
Philip Williams no
Philip Williams
Charles Page
The NPP shows how Luther misread Paul, who had reference to works of the Law of Moses. That he misunderstood Paul ought to be clear enough by Luther calling the book of James a work of straw. Surely, you can see that something isn’t right with Luther’s understanding of the atonement?
Charles Page
Philip Williams
Varnel Watson
Charles Page Philip Williams I perceive neither of yalls views are really Pentecostal
Philip Williams
Troy Day being 100% biblical and 100% Christian, I hope they qualify as Pentecostal. If not it’s time to dump the latter.
Varnel Watson
Philip Williams you think Charles Page is Biblical ?
Philip Williams
Troy Day
He claims to be Reformed.
Charles Page
Troy Day Bible is biblical indeed
Charles Page
Troy Day I am not reformed else I would be in agreement with Donald Bowdle
Varnel Watson
Charles Page still not Pentecostal enough
Charles Page
Troy Day my pentecostalism dates back to Acts 2