So it all goes back to someone earning grace?
So grace becomes wages and not a gift!
Sounds a lot like the path of the New Perspective.
Harry
Chad Richard Bresson <breusswane@...> wrote:
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From: "Chad Richard Bresson"
> John Calvin held to active obedience.
"What is placing our righteousness in the obedience of Christ, but asserting
that we are accounted righteous only because His obedience is accepted for
us as if it were our own?" -- John Calvin
".he says that he is made unto us righteousness, by which he means that we
are on his account acceptable to God, inasmuch as he expiated our sins by is
death, and his obedience is imputed to us for righteousness. For as the
righteousness of faith consists in remission of sins and a gracious
acceptance, we obtain both through Christ." -- John Calvin
"Now someone asks, how has Christ abolished sin, banished the separation
between us and God, and acquired righteousness to render God favorable and
kindly toward us? To this we can in general reply that he has achieved this
for us by the whole course of his obedience." -- John Calvin
"By his obedience Christ truly acquired and merited grace for us with the
Father, for as by the sin of Adam we were estranged from God and destined to
perish, so by Christ's obedience we are received into favor as righteous" --
John Calvin
One cannot make the claim that Calvin "understood the problem" of active
obedience in John 8:1-11 when in fact John Calvin would have affirmed active
obedience even with his understanding of John 8:1-11.
Chad Bresson
Xenia, OH
http://breusswane.blogspot.com
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