Featured The Natue of Faith in Romans 3:24-5:2

I showed you by your own commentary! You atttribute faith to the believer and his renewed mind not to God in his CREATION work of giving a new heart.

You are teaching that the elect received an UNBELIEVING new heart and therefore is no better than their old heart.

You are teaching the new heart must yet believe and thus is given, created in UNBELIEF! That is precisely why you demand faith is a work of man rather than the work of God.

The mind is continually in need of renewal but not so with the new heart - it is created in true holiness and righteousness and in faith and that is precisely why the mind can be renewed daily.

 

This statement is a direct contradiction to how Paul defines "justification by faith"

Rom. 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

You are making the direct opposite conclusion that Paul makes here. His conclusion is that JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH is "WITHOUT THE DEEDS" = works of the Law while you conclusion is that justification by faith is works and thus you accuse Paul of concluding that Justification by faith is works.

 

You can't deal with this fact and so you ignore it! You ignore it because you are teaching an absolute false doctrine. You are calling Paul a liar! He says justification by faith is WITHOUT WORKS while you are claiming it is works. He is inspired of God and you are being inspired by Satan to contradict the Apostle Pauls precise and explict language that directly contradicts your view.

 

In John 15 abiding in him has nothing to do with justification or regeneration. It has to do with fruit production or experiential sanctification as opposed to the process of discipline. They had already been clean (regenerationally) by the word as in John 13 when Christ said the whole body had already been bathed but needed only daily cleansing of the hands and feet (symbols of daily activities).

The consequences for not producing fruit or daily cleansing is disciplinary actions whereby the Lord cuts off the branch and they experience a dried up life that brings them into temporal condemnation by men.

 

Justification is not progressive but a completed action at the point of conversion (rom. 4:11; 5:1-2).

Where there is no regeneration there is no justification and progressive sanctification is the product of regeneration (Eph. 2:10) not the product of justification.

Our works avail nothing (no temporal blessings or eternal rewards) if they do not originate from love but they have nothing to do with obtaining either justification or regeneration. Indeed, we are "glorified" completely before we even stand before the Lord proving that our works have nothing to do with obtaining a glorified state.

 

Faith is the basis for justification not works. The reason that faith is the basis for justification is that the kind of faith being defined in this context is one that receives/embraces/rests completely upon the finished work of Jesus Christ.

Regardless, you directly contradict Paul when you say faith IS works when He denies faith "of works."

 

I am reposting this because no one to date has been able to provide any kind of exegetical response to prove my exposition is wrong.

SBM's response is absurd because "justified by faith" must be interpeted in response to what it is contextually contasted with - "justified by works". This very contrast proves "by faith" cannot possibly be interpreted to be of works simply because that would demand there is no contrast at all.

 

Your error is exposed by your response! You cannot respond to the evidence I placed before you and so you simply reassert disproven rhetoric!

Here again is the indisputable evidence you are wrong - Romans 3:28 contrasts justification "by faith" with justification by works "deeds" and thus the contrast demands that "faith" cannot possibly be "of works" or else no contrast can be made between them! You are making Paul's contrast utter foolishness because you are denying such a contrast exists when Paul plainly and explicitly states it does exist.

So, since you cannot intelligently respond to these facts. Since you cannot exegetically respond to to the clear and obvious contrast between "faith" and "deeds" in Romans 3:28 you simply act like a senseless parrot who repeats what has been utterly proven to be false and oxymoronic rationale.

 

Rom. 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

QUESTIONS:

1. What is being directly contrasted to justification by "deeds" here?

2. If "faith" is placed in direct contrast to "deeds" then how can faith be of deeds without making Pauls words utterlly meaningless in this text?


Gal. 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.


QUESTION: Again Paul contrasts justification "by the works" to justification "by the faith" so how can "faith" be OF WORKS without destroying this contrast?


The words "by the faith of Jesus Christ" is an objective genitive and means "by the kind of faith which has Jesus Christ for its object." Absolute contextual proof of this is the very next explanatory word "EVEN" followed by the explanation "we have believed IN Jesus Christ, THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED...."

SBM would have to reverse this explanation by Paul and read it this way, "we have been justiifed by Christ's faith THAT WE MIGHT BELIEVE IN jesus Christ."

Hence, SBM would require prior justification in order for us to believe in Jesus Christ.

However, Paul says the very reverse! He says "we have believed in Jesus Christ, that WE MIGHT BE justified....."

Another clear evidence that we are justified by faith in Christ is Paul's repeated words "the just shall live BY FAITH." In context, it is always the gospel that is in view in regard to this quotation by Paul in the New Testament. The term "just" means "justified" and thus "the Justified." The term "live" refers to the life promised in the gospel or JUDICIAL LIFE granted through imputation of the legal righteousness of Christ to those who believe in the gospel which is imputed "by faith."

This quotation is NEVER used of progressive sanctification but of life by faith judicially or by justification.