Stephanie Gilmore conquista su quinto título mundial

McMark: Thus a quick summary of my objections, which you have ignored.RS: But again, I have asserted over and over that I firmly hold to the imputation of the righteousness of Christ to the elect. There is no real Gospel apart from that teaching. So your repeated words of saying that I denied this moved me to give up.McMark: I understand that you practical point is that imputation has results. Of course I agree. Indeed, I am the one saying that the life of the new birth is a result of the imputation of Christ’s righteousness. But you don’t like that.RS: It is not a matter of liking or not liking, it is simply that I disagree with it. While I do not argue what you believe or don’t believe about the matter, by implication your view separates the righteousness of Christ from Christ Himself.McMark: You want the new birth to be first logically, with justification.RS: I believe the biblical order (versus what I want or don’t want) is that regeneration precedes faith. God declares sinners just based on Christ alone. Sinners receive Christ through faith. The new birth is not part of justifiation in and of itself, but a sinner must be regenerated in order to be justified.McMark: When you talk about results of the new birth, you don’t deny imputation and forgiveness of sins, but you are looking for more “real” results than that, like you have a more righteous “soul” than the next guy.RS: The soul that does not have Christ can have no real righteousness at all. The soul that has Christ has all the righteousness it will ever need or have. However, we are to be instruments of His glory in this world and He works the character of God (including righteousness) in and through people. Again, there is no need for anyone to have any more righteousness than the righteousness of Christ to walk through the pearly gates. But that does not mean that we are not to hunger and thirst for righteousness.McMark: I am saying that this shows up when you deny that the reign of grace through righteousness in Romans 5:21 is about Christ’s earned and imputed righteousness.RS: But the text does not say imputed righteousness and the context favors my interpretation. Yes, that is my opinion.McMark: You are itching to get your Spirit-enabled “righteousness” into that verse, even though it doesn’t fit the context, either before or after.RS: And I would argue that you are itching to see imputed righteousness behind every iota in the Bible. It simply does not fit the context in that text.McMark: And your idea that imputed righteousness is not enough shows up again when you talk about II Cor 5:15-21, when you insist that “new creation” is about you and your new birth, even though the entire context is about judgment, Christ’s death, non-imputing of sins.RS: Again, it is not all about me and it is not that imputed righteousness is not enough. What matters is the order and location of what the Bible says. When one really things about it, the new creation is not all about me, but as with all things it is all about God. He is the One who takes dead sinners and creates life in them. They are to be instruments of His glory which is once again all about Him. The context of II Cor 5:17 flows out of verses 14-15: “14 For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; 15 and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.” Verse 16 starts with a “therefore” and verse 17 starts with a ” therefore.” They are both built on verses 14-15 which gives them their real context.McMark: But still you think that “becoming the righteousness of God in Christ” is not (only) about imputation.RS: Yes, but that is because of the text itself. For example, in Ephesians 2 we see that sinners are saved by grace. But in Romans 5:21 it speaks of a reign of grace. The reign of grace is something that goes on for a longer period than justification. So the life of the believer is a reign of grace and all good that comes through a believer is from that reign of grace.LikeLike

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