What is the rule of faith for Christians?

[BreadOfLife]

I have been saying all along that God MAKES us righteous. He credits HIS righteousness to us when we believe God's word about a Son who will inherit the blessing on our behalf, and so we are justified/saved in that very moment of faith in God, just as it was for Abraham when he believed God's promise of a son (Genesis 15:6).

From there our obedience SHOWS that we believe God's promise about a Son, just as Abraham's obedience showed his faith in the promise of God (Genesis 22:12). And so a man is justified by, both, faith, and works. Faith MAKES him righteous (Genesis 15:6), all by itself. Works SHOW him to be righteous (Genesis 22:12).

HUH??
In one breath, you preach IMPARTED righteousness – then in the very next breath, you preach IMPUTED righteousness.

As for becoming justified and showing justification – they are INTERTWINED.
As I showed you – Abraham would NOT have been considered justified had he NOT agreed to sacrifice his son. His obedience was a crucial element in his faith – just as it is in OUR faith.

Without that obedience – you DON’T have faith – which means that you DON’T have justification.

 

[theefaith]

If grace of justification is accounted to the one who believes why are they not all justified?

mark 4:3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:

4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.

5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:

6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.