Really?
Romans 3:21 - righteousness is "manifested"
1 Corinthians 1:30 - "in Christ we "become righteous"
Romans 4:5 - " the one who does not work but believes in Him, his faith is "credited as righteousness"
Romans 3:26 "through Christ we ate "made righteous"
2 Corinthians 5:21 - our sins were imputed to Christ- HE BECAME SIN
Manifested, become, made, credited are all words that descri e imputation.
Yes. All of those chapter in the
middle of the whole 8 chapter teaching of Law vs. Spirit had to do with before Christ about people before and after the law. (Abraham was before the law, and David was after the law.
Imputed is not in 2 Corinthians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin
to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
WHAT? We will not be glorified until we are resurrected!
Jesus is giving us His glory now, Ron. John 17. I've heard on these forums the theory that glorification is after we are resurrected, but that is strictly a post-apostolic teaching. Where did you hear that teaching if you are not in a denomination that teaches it? It is false. You will grow further if you can open your mind to just what is in scripture and allow the Holy Spirit to teach you and not a man-made denomination.
We are sanctified and are being transformed into the Likeness of Christ.
YES!!! That transformation is called glorification. Right now it is only our inner nature called the divine nature. 2 Peter 1:2-4. Romans 8:29-30
We are instantly spiritually changed and given Life. Our spirit is pure and separate from our sarx. Remember the wkrd is sharper than a two-edged sword ... able to divide soul and spirit. If they were the same, they could not be divided. So it is if a newborn Christian suddenly dies, his spirit is separated from his fleah and he goes directly to the Lord, pure white as snow and all the sin that dwells in the members of our flesh is left behind.
Christ died for past present amd future sins - not just past sins. He took them all. He is outside of time. This is how His righteousness is immediately imputed to us EVEN THOUGH WE MAY BE IMMATURE CHRISTIANS. Do you think that criminal next to Jesus was a mature Christian? No he just became ine and was promised be would be in Paradise today. He confessed being a sinner in godly sorrow, believed and Jesus forgave him.
For the rest of us who remain and wait until our redemption, certainly we must grow our knowledge of the Bible, cooperate, serve, practice, persevere, love our neighbor - like it says in
2 Peter 1:5-7.
I have an entirely different interpretation of scripture based on these.
Our spirit and soul together are what is born again and what was referred to as "the flesh." The spirit/
mind and soul/
heart are inside of us. They are separate, but inseparable, like the Trinity.
The flesh is our nature. Before Christ it was the old-man where sin dwelt. But according to Romans 6:6-7 they were crucified with Christ and we are raised up Spirit. Romans 8:9 We are no longer
in the flesh (the old nature). The spirit and soul are separate from the body which does not hold sin so doesn't need to be born again now to be sinless and like Christ. Christ was sinless because of His divine NATURE, that is given to those who are born again now. 1 John 3:5-9; 1 John 5:18.
There is a false teaching that says because we as born again Christians are "in the flesh," we will always sin until we die and are raised up new in the resurrection. Do you believe that? Whoever started that teaching didn't know what was born again, nor how it affected us, except Augustine. I was surprised that he knew. It had not yet been totally obliterated from the teachings of the whole Church.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole
spirit, soul, and body be preserved
blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our nature is made blameless when we are born again. That again is our spirit and soul - our new nature. The body is blameless because the body cannot sin on its own without our heart and mind telling it what to do, so it is already blameless, but because of Adam, must still die. Romans 8:10
I just think you have a problem with that word and I think a desdain for Reformed theology that causes some resentment and mental blocks. I am not a Calvinist nor Lutheran but hold common beliefs. Luther was the man who God used to send a message to the RCC.
Yes, they had a good reputation. But what Jesus said to them was "you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead." Revelation 3:1
It wasn't until I heard what they teached through being on the forums that I finally understood why Jesus thought the doctrines that came out of the Reformation was only death to the hearers. But then 200 years after the beginning of that church age, Jesus writes, You have a few names even in Sardis who have
not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy.
Knowing church history, one of those it is obviously referring to is John Wesley, the founder of the holiness group. He was against Calvinism too, as was Jesus. I only listen to Jesus, not to man. If you haven't studied them, you should see what Jesus says to the seven church ages from the 2000 to the last age, Laodecia. I'm a Philadelphian, and am wondering if that last church age has started yet, or is after the strong delusion is put on the rest of mankind that didn't believe when they had the chance. 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12.