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Sorry but you have to read Romans with blinders on. It is full of legal language. The very idea of justification itself is a legal word. You cannot reasonably admit to breaking the law and the expect that that is not a legal term. You cannot admit to being guilty of breaking the law and deny the legality. It in fact was not absent for any amount of time. It is and always has been in scripture.

 

Rom 2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Rom 2:6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:


This is legal language.

 

Rom 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.


To be judged is legal language.

 

Rom 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Rom 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Rom 3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;



More legal language

 

Says you. You assume because it was not discussed at length that no one believed it. Not so.

The pertinent and crucial question is why is there so much legal language in scripture tied to salvation if it is not so.

 

I'm sorry but there is nothing about this that is true.

 

In Dan 7 God is judge - delivering the saints from persecution.

In [FONT=&quot]John 5:22 the Father, in fact, judges no one but [FONT=&quot]has[/FONT] given [FONT=&quot]all judgment[/FONT] to the [FONT=&quot]Son[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]John 12:48 [/FONT][FONT=&quot]48 [/FONT][FONT=&quot]He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]

 

Romans 2 appears to point to a problem in your model.

In Romans 2 your point is affirmed that each person will stand or fall based on their own choice to accept or reject the Gospel - not because Adam sinned.

But in the Rom 2 example the gentile that is saved in that future judgment... justified in that future legal event...judgment - had to already have been saved, born again, sanctified even before that, or else they never could have shown that New Covenant work already in the heart by the time their name comes up in the future judgment.

In Romans 2 the justification is in a future judgment.
In Romans 5:1 the justification is in a past event "having BEEN justified".

It is "Both AND" --

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[FONT=&quot]Romans 2
5 But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
6 who “will render to each one according to his deeds”:
7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;
8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,
9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;

10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
11 For there is no partiality with God.

13 for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.
14 For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves,
15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,
16 on the day when, according to my GOSPEL, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.[/COLOR]

And this Romans 2 Gospel solution includes the New Covenant promise where the Law of God is written on the heart in Romans 2 and the believer is circumcised in HEART - by the Holy Spirit.

25 For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26 So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
27 And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law?
28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.
29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.[/FONT]