stunnedbygrace
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And yet the righteousness is imputed because of the faith. God could see in Abraham that he truly did believe. Saying that God imputes righteousness because He can see in advance the works Abraham will do is to subtly shift the imputation from being based on faith to being based on those works.
But if we let the Word stand as it says, it was that Abraham believed what God told him, and that believing was accounted to him as righteousness. Amd because Abraham believed God, he was even willing to kill his own son knowing God would then have to raise him from the dead. It's the believing that this behind those works and not the works themselves.
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Men can be very deceived in that they can say one thing and do another but yet still keep saying the thing. You have to work that in because, of the 2 sons, which was the father pleased with - the one who said yes but didn't do as he said or the one who said no but then later did?