Sinless Perfection. Why do so many teach against what Jesus taught?

[Judge Hardcastle]

Or as Luther put it....a fresh covering of snow over a dunghill. You post has that same peculiar odour to it.

The more accurate description is a dusting of dirt on snow. The fundamental quality being the snow, not the dirt that dirties the outer part of the snow. This is akin to Jesus' explaining how a person who has had a bath need only to wash his feet. The fundamental quality of the person being that he is clean, not that his feet are dirty. Dirty feet doesn't change the fact that the person has been bathed one time and does not need to take another bath. The believer doesn't become unbathed when they sin.

John 13:10
10Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean.

A truth that doesn't quite fit into the theology of the works salvationist.

 

[David1701]

The more accurate description is a dusting of dirt on snow. The fundamental quality being the snow, not the dirt that dirties the outer part of the snow. This is akin to Jesus' explaining how a person who has had a bath need only to wash his feet. The fundamental quality of the person being that he is clean, not that his feet are dirty. Dirty feet doesn't change the fact that the person has been bathed one time and does not need to take another bath. The believer doesn't become unbathed when they sin.

John 13:10
10Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean.

A truth that doesn't quite fit into the theology of the works salvationist.

Yes; the feet are the part of the body that constantly touches the world, in our walk; therefore, they are the part that (metaphorically speaking) becomes dirty from that contact.

 

[Judge Hardcastle]

God reckons us as justified, not through any actual change in our sinful condition, but that our sinfulness is covered by the pure righteousness of Christ. This means that when God views us, He views us through Christ's righteousness, not our own.

Epi says it is impossible to be seen as righteous without actually being righteous. He does not understand that the riches of Christ's righteousness is credited to the believer when they are joined to him, like how the riches of a man become the riches of the woman he takes as his own. She doesn't earn his estate. It becomes hers by virtue of marital union. It's a completely legal transaction that no one can argue with or dispute. Though many try.