Featured Justification - Rome versus Baptists

Christians are FULLY justified before God by basis of the Cross of Christ, ONLY thing required by god for that to haoppen is one to receive jesus and that provosion for his sins by faith!

Once saved, remade anew, THEN we start road to becoming more and more like jesus, by the empowering of the Holy Spirit. Gods desire is that ALL His children be daily growing into image of Christ, but we atill are allowed to chose to obey/disobey...

Those choices we make affect how close to God will and plans we walk in this life, but at death, we shall immediatly go into presense of God, and long for time when our physical bodies shall be reunited and be glorified, becoming as jesus now is in regards to our spiritual maturity and perfection!

 

But you are saying your Justification doesn't lead to sanctification because you are only declared righteous not righteous indeed. Which follows Luther's dung covered in snow analogy which means there is no real internal change no real justification because its only a legal declaration.

are you really remade anew if you're not living a sanctified life?

Which basically means that sanctification is optional. There is no real need for sanctification. Admittedly, you said a saved person can chose to disobey ie live like the devil and commit sin whenever, however, and in any condition they want but are secure in their salvation. They can even be unrepentant of it and still be saved. Because of their legal declaration of righteous which isn't a righteousness in fact but only a legal fiction. The worst a saved person has to deal with when they disobey is a guilty feeling and lack of crowns to throw before the feet of Jesus because of the new spirit they are
given makes them feel bad. I don't know about you but that kind of soteriology tickles my ears. All I have to do is believe that Jesus died for my sins make a declarative statement of belief and I can fornicate, commit adultry, murder, etc... to my hearts content. Feel bad mumble some prayers to God to forgive my behavior and look forward to the afterlife because then I will be glorified just without crowns but hey I'm not in hell. Makes life pretty easy. There is no real requirement to lay down my life in self sacrifice. There is no real requirement to deny myself, pick up my cross, and follow Jesus because I believe and its heart felt.

So when I go into the presense of God after being saved I might not be as close as someone else but hey there's the rest of eternity to do that. I don't have to give any sin I may enjoy in this life! Cool.

 

You think like the heretics/false christians who accused paul of teaching "saved by grace of God in order to keep livinglike the devil"

God Forbid! As we can chooose to do wrong still, but that is NOT who we now are in Christ, and would out usunder bondage jesus died toset us free from!

 

I actually don't. I don't believe sanctification is optional but required by Jesus statement "be ye perfect as your father in heaven is perfect". There is nothing in your soteriological statement that suggest sanctification is commanded but an optional statement. You even state that the book of hebrews asks us to live sanctified lives. Which means we can take it or leave it. The difference about those men and myself is that they werent accusing Paul of anything they were living in sin to which Paul says GOD forbid which is strong language. It isn't a request but a requirement.