williemac said,
This is not biblical thinking or teaching. I know from our discussion in the Tozer thread about the cross, that you have constructed your own private doctrine around repentance, even although there is massive evidence in scripture for the connection between repentance and repentance from sin.
But, I can see that the appeal of claiming positional righteousness. You seem to imply that the Advocate - without being personally approached - will put each case to the Father on your behalf. This helpfully by-passes your resistance to repenting from sins.
However, I would draw to your attention, seriously, that Paul did not 'see' the 'positional righteousness' of the fornicator in 1 Corinthians 5, and I doubt the fornicator in 1 Corinthians 5 thought of himself as positionally 'righteous', after he'd been asked to leave until he'd repented. What's more, Paul's description of him doesn't base itself on his 'positional righteousness' either. Indeed, was he still positionally righteous?
1 Corinthians 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
2 Corinthians 7:9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly
manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
2 Corinthians 12:21 [And] lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and [that] I shall bewail many which have sinned
already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
It should be obvious that Paul does not believe their future sins are already forgiven nor that repentance was a thing of their past.
If we could repent specifically of sin, no sacrifice would have been needed.
This is not biblical thinking or teaching. I know from our discussion in the Tozer thread about the cross, that you have constructed your own private doctrine around repentance, even although there is massive evidence in scripture for the connection between repentance and repentance from sin.
But, I can see that the appeal of claiming positional righteousness. You seem to imply that the Advocate - without being personally approached - will put each case to the Father on your behalf. This helpfully by-passes your resistance to repenting from sins.
However, I would draw to your attention, seriously, that Paul did not 'see' the 'positional righteousness' of the fornicator in 1 Corinthians 5, and I doubt the fornicator in 1 Corinthians 5 thought of himself as positionally 'righteous', after he'd been asked to leave until he'd repented. What's more, Paul's description of him doesn't base itself on his 'positional righteousness' either. Indeed, was he still positionally righteous?
1 Corinthians 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
2 Corinthians 7:9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly
manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
2 Corinthians 12:21 [And] lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and [that] I shall bewail many which have sinned
already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
It should be obvious that Paul does not believe their future sins are already forgiven nor that repentance was a thing of their past.