I'm not sure what you don't understand by imputed righteousness? it refers to the belief that the righteousness of Jesus Christ is credited to believers, allowing them to be justified before God.
There are a couple of different doctrines regarding imputed righteousness, and because of your typo I didn't want to guess what you meant for me to agree or not agree to.
So Let me ask you a question regarding the worst one. Do you believe that the righteousness that Jesus imputes to us is like a covering up of sin underneath, and that the blood of Jesus doesn't allow the Father to see the sin underneath. God does not lie, nor allows a doctrine that allows a lie.
She gets her confidence from thinking she was granted a Pentecostal style second work of grace that bestowed “sinless perfection” on her. She will not question it, for then her whole world would fall apart. She enjoys boasting about her superiority to others.
My confidence is in being grateful to Jesus for doing what I couldn't do, and that was make me stop committing my all time favorite sin - adultery with my boss 50 years ago when I was about 30. Like Paul, my boasting is in the Lord, not in my helplessness. Anchorite, I know you are angry with me, and you have a right to be with how you are seeing me. I would be angry with me too if I was you. You are in the majority if that is where you want to be. I just remember the night I was born again and literally felt a heaviness lift out of my body. I know now that it was the sin in my nature, because that desire for my boss was gone. It wasn't me trying to be good, as for months I failed every month I tried breaking it off with him. Repentance is not turning away from our sin in our own power, but recognizing myself as the publican praying in the temple and completely and utterly weak and in love with my sin. If that was a "second work" as you claimed, I got both all at once. And I'll be eternally grateful for the rest of my life. I guess you could say I am now Pentecostal because I certainly not a cessationist. I've experienced too many miracles and been able to hear God's voice for these 50 years so that I know God's will BEFORE I pray and 100% of my prayers are answered. For the 30 years before that, not one prayer was ever answered, except for the last one as a publican. But when it comes to this subject of sin, I'm not in any denomination. Too many believe the false doctrines by church fathers. I prefer the apostles.
Would you like to address the parable? Were his sins forgiven or not?! What happened when he did not also forgive? Does that punishment sound less than punishment for adultery? Is this a lesser sin than Moses law as you have stated? you are not making any sense.
The two types of sin are stated as such and both are taken away by Jesus leaving us finally holy:
1. Author and Finisher of our faith. Hebrews 12:2
2. from faith to faith Romans 1:16-17
3. from glory to glory 2 Cor. 3:18
4. grace for grace John 1:16
5. sin unto death vs. sin not unto death 1 John 5:16-17
6. righteous vs. holy Revelation 22:11
7. sins willfully and in full knowledge vs. unintentional Numbers 15:22-36; Hebrews 10:2 vs Hebrews 10:26-31
Jesus does it all. All that is required of us is to abide in Him and to obey Him.
What happened when he did not also forgive?
I prefer Matthew 6:14-15 and do not let a day go by holding any grudges just because someone doesn't like or agree with me. I'll miss them.
Matthew 6:14-15
I see a few things questionable here. 1. I am not clear on sin nature in Adam. I hear opinions, but I only go by scripture. It does not say either way. He sinned one heck of a sin to cause his death and ours. They were made good. But, is goodness a guarantee not to sin? Within their goodness was the ability to sin – which they did. Being good, as God created them, does not mean they are incapable of doing something wrong. Only God possesses the inability to do evil.- Death spread to all because ALL sinned.
When God made man He said it was "very good." Adam's nature was clean, just as John 15:3 says ours is when the first type of sin was dealt with (lawlessness/sins unto death) and now Jesus was maturing the fruit.
The only difference between Adam before Satan, and a born again Christian as far as sin goes, is we have the Spirit of God dwelling inside of us to pass up the temptation. Adam only had the breath of life.
Sanctification is a process throughout our lives. We are being set apart and growing to be more Christ.
Sorry your definition of worst types of sins is not in scripture. See above.
Did you look up 1 Corinthians 6:11? Past tense?
"But you
were washed, but you
were sanctified, but you
were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God."
Romans 8:29-30
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined
to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also
justified; and whom He justified, these He also
glorified.
Glorified is not "will glorify."
I gave you the verses that teach glorification is our need bodies after death. you ignored them!
I must have missed them. Do you mind giving me the texts if you know them and I'll look them up.
Hebrews 10:2- the word there means your "conscience" in Greek.
I know that and that is what I mean too. Do a word study sometime and look up "conscience" by Paul. He was living his life in all good conscience. That is the way I live my life too. And it seems you do too.
