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This is about Christ not us. Anyone who enters into Christ takes on His grace and power. It's about location. But we each individually are not declared more righteous than we actually are. God doesn't give up His righteousness to unrighteous people. To enter into Christ we must pass through the...

Rom. 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Were the Publican or the thief on the cross godly? These men were not religiously inclined at all. Yet their consciences were not so seared that they were beyond...

But that is not what Paul is saying. To impute means to acknowledge the attribute being imputed. God sees the heart and He has the authority to declare a heart righteous. When He does that...by SEEING the heart....He calls it as He sees it. THAT is what impute really means. The real use of...

The inventor of all pernicious doctrines is the enemy of our souls. But he comes across as someone who sympathizes with our sinful condition...and justifies that for us. It's about a new way of getting away with sin rather than overcoming it through a new life in Christ. However, false doctrine...

Imputed righteousness is a term invented by Luther...also called "alien righteousness." It maintains that taking on Jesus as your saviour HIDES your true self from God. It steals righteousness from God in order to make it one's own. Basically it is to be able to hide behind Jesus. So then...

Let's say a person is given the job of an ambassador. Now does that make that person free to do whatever he wants to do in that position? Will he be judged always well because he is an ambassador? Or will he be held to a higher standard and judged very severely since he has been given great...

i'm saying that all things rest with God...salvation included. People want security even in sins. But people are not like God.

If we take away God's ability to judge righteously then we are seeking to take away His righteousness in order to justify ourselves. Job 40:8 8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

"Episkopos said: ↑ Being IN Christ" @justbyfaith Indeed, what does that mean? It means that we have been translated (raptured while still in these mortal bodies) into the spiritual realm to walk in the very presence of holy God. Doing eternal works...perfect works that were conceived before...

Actually it sounds like you are trying to take something of God for yourself. Calling good evil and evil good is the way of men. But God judges righteously...comparing men with men. Righteous is as righteous DOES. With God there are no favourites. God is NOT religious. Men are. And men IMPUTE...

We own nothing. Naked we came into this world...and naked we will leave this world. Then we will be all judged by what we have done with what we have been given.No one owns God or anything from Him. It is never our kingdom...otherwise the devil is involved in a rebellious false claim on such...

No! That's the point. It is borrowed. An ambassador cannot do what he wants...he must obey his government. If he abuses the power he is entrusted with...by lending....then he is rejected. Same goes for us. We can only be judged by our own ways....not God's. So God is watching us to see what we...

The proof text for the imputed error is ... 1 Corinthians 1:30 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: When we are IN Christ we take on His authority and grace so as to walk exactly as He did. People want...

The carnal man is always looking to get away with things. People like the free stuff. So when the seductive power of the devil gets behind something that SOUNDS like it's from God...it's very hard to resist...unless one loves the truth. So how can one avoid this great delusion of a spiritual...

Again not being able to understand the difference between righteousness and holiness. Being sanctified means being in Christ. We partake of HIS holiness when we enter into Christ. Jesus did NOT come to give us HIS righteousness for personal status. By faith we enter into Christ for God's...

Working out one's own salvation with fear and trembling is about the need to be cooperating with the grace of God. This is an ancient and biblical doctrine...from the early church.... that is still supported by the Catholic church...but was thrown out by Luther.

Actually Luther just felt better about not having to seek the Lord for an actual personal encounter in creating a humanized gospel based on beliefs ABOUT Jesus. Luther's scheme short-circuits the need for an actual personal encounter and visitation of God. God need not get involved since...

it's a man-made teaching using faulty human reasoning. Luther was a frustrated monk who figured out a way, by his very carnal mind, around the experience of the cross. In so doing he eliminated actual righteousness and holiness. Just look at his legacy.

You are indoctrinated by vain repetitions without understanding. We don't make the cross work...the actual power of the cross makes us dead. But FEW will go to God in that kind of full surrender.

Now some misdirected people will not understand that God doesn't change. His law of righteousness is eternal. The OT was about establishing righteousness....just as the NT is about establishing holiness being BUILT UPON righteousness...like an upper room being built on a first storey. Now we...