I have never claimed that it is a "pure heart" which is what saves. A pure heart is the RESULT of a genuine salvation.
It is Jesus that saves us through the Spirit of His life and through the Ministry of Reconciliation.
You read my words and your brainwashed mind twists them into meaning something else which you then speak against.
A pure heart is nothing more that dirty rags? What a horrible statement.
Rev 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
The fine linen is filthy rags? You must be out of your mind to make such statements. Your words are a perfect example of how a faulty foundation results in absurdity.
When the Bible speaks of "filthy rags" the context is that is an apostate Israel who were in rebellion to God. Their perception of righteousness and thus their deeds were as filthy rags before God, not the righteousness of the Saints.
You really think that Abel's sacrifice to God by which he proved he was righteous was a filthy rag? Come on, think man!
Heb 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Go read Isaiah chapter 64 and instead of isolating verse 6 from its context read the WHOLE passage.
People like you just parrot the out of context isolated proof texts which you have been brainwashed with by the false teachers you follow. If you actually read the Bible with an honest heart and open ear you would NEVER conclude such a thing as the righteousness of the saints is as filthy rags.
Again, you lack a complete understanding of what I am talking about and thus twist it into some kind of strawman. Justification is simply being counted as righteous by God despite our past transgression against God. In other words justification is related to the forgiveness of sins EXACTLY as David taught.
I pointed it out before that Paul refers to Psalm 32:1-2 in Romans 4.
Psa 32:1 A Psalm of David, Maschil. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Psa 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
We see here how David connects the forgiveness of sins to a spirit where there is no guile or deceit. In other words God is willing to forgive those whom come clean and forsake their filthiness. God counts their FAITH as righteousness is spite of their past sins which are covered. That is why the Bible says things like...
1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1Jn 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Jn 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
We come clean with God about our past sin and WALK in the light. IF we do this then God is willing to cleanse us of all sin by the blood of Christ.
How hard it that to understand? It isn't really.
N. According to you, an individual who will not DIRECTLY address the things I write, who instead twists them into some strawman, which you then proceed to make unsubstantiated claims about.
You are being completely dishonest to operate in such a manner. Romans 5 means what it says, it just doesn't mean what you THINK it says because you are under strong delusion.
Abraham was under the law of conscience. Death still reigned from Adam to Moses because they could sin could still occasion by the law of conscience and still work death. Thus they may not have sinned in the same manner as Adam (violate a direct commandment) but they could still sin.
The faith of Abraham was counted for righteousness because it was a GENUINE FAITH that TRUSTED and WALKED.
Rom 4:10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Rom 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
Rom 4:12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
Abraham WALKED IN THE STEPS of his genuine faith.
Rom 4:20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
Rom 4:21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
Rom 4:22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
Abraham's faith was reckoned as righteousness because he staggered not and was fully pursuaded and thus he WALKED by his faith. That is why it was reckoned as righteousness.
Yet that is not what the "Imputed Righteousness of Christ" doctrine teaches. That doctrine teaches that the obedient track record of Jesus is credited to the believers account. In other words it teaches a MORAL TRANSFER that has NOTHING to do with any walk. People are taught to simply "trust in the transfer" and PRESTO they are righteous. The Bible doesn't teach anything like that anywhere.
Pure rhetoric without any basis in the Bible whatsoever.
Faith is a WALK for it is OBEDIENCE FROM THE HEART because we FULLY TRUST and thus WE PERFORM. Just like Noah, Abraham and Abel. They were all DOERS.
You are claiming that one simply "trusts in what Jesus did on the cross" and PRESTO one is righteous. That is NONSENSE because Jesus did not do on the cross what you think He did. Penal Substitution is a 400 year old false doctrine and you are putting your faith in a 400 year old fable invented by men.
Your adherence to this fable forces you to view the "death of Christ" as effecting a PROVISION which you merely "trust in" which then CLOAKS YOUR WICKEDNESS. It is satanic deception you have fallen for, you have fallen for it hook, line and sinker and even contend to others to fall for it. How sad.
Righteousness is not by the law because the law only regulates the outer man.
I can obey "thou shalt not kill" but that does not make me righteous. I can still have murder in the heart.
True righteousness is via GRACE THROUGH FAITH because instead of being regulated by "rules and regulations" we are regulated by a "faith that works by love."
Paul was DEAD TO THE LAW that he might LIVE UNTO GOD.
Gal 2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
Compare to...
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Rom 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
That is what Paul is speaking about, not some notion of "do nothing and trust in a provision."
Yet somehow you cannot see the plainly obvious. The issue is HEART PURITY.
Read the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5. There Jesus raises the issue of "do not commit adultery" and "do not commit murder" and Jesus explicitly teaches that "outward observance" is not genuine righteousness. There must be INWARD OBSERVANCE via a FAITH THAT WORKS BY LOVE. That is why Jesus said it is the PURE IN HEART who will see God.
Jesus didn't teach that righteousness is premised in an abstract legal provision which cloaks an actual manifest filthy rags state. How can you fall for such an obvious deception?
.
No.
I am frustrating your perverted understanding of the grace of God. The grace of God that brings salvation teaches us...
Tit 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
The grace you believe in is a sin cloak, a legal fiction, an absurd magical inference, a deception.
You have completely bought into the 400 year old deception of the Reformers and by doing so you have been mentally immunised to the truth. It is a shame because it does not have to be that way. You can still wake up and I hope you do.
It is Jesus that saves us through the Spirit of His life and through the Ministry of Reconciliation.
You read my words and your brainwashed mind twists them into meaning something else which you then speak against.
A pure heart is nothing more that dirty rags? What a horrible statement.
Rev 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
The fine linen is filthy rags? You must be out of your mind to make such statements. Your words are a perfect example of how a faulty foundation results in absurdity.
When the Bible speaks of "filthy rags" the context is that is an apostate Israel who were in rebellion to God. Their perception of righteousness and thus their deeds were as filthy rags before God, not the righteousness of the Saints.
You really think that Abel's sacrifice to God by which he proved he was righteous was a filthy rag? Come on, think man!
Heb 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Go read Isaiah chapter 64 and instead of isolating verse 6 from its context read the WHOLE passage.
People like you just parrot the out of context isolated proof texts which you have been brainwashed with by the false teachers you follow. If you actually read the Bible with an honest heart and open ear you would NEVER conclude such a thing as the righteousness of the saints is as filthy rags.
Again, you lack a complete understanding of what I am talking about and thus twist it into some kind of strawman. Justification is simply being counted as righteous by God despite our past transgression against God. In other words justification is related to the forgiveness of sins EXACTLY as David taught.
I pointed it out before that Paul refers to Psalm 32:1-2 in Romans 4.
Psa 32:1 A Psalm of David, Maschil. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Psa 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
We see here how David connects the forgiveness of sins to a spirit where there is no guile or deceit. In other words God is willing to forgive those whom come clean and forsake their filthiness. God counts their FAITH as righteousness is spite of their past sins which are covered. That is why the Bible says things like...
1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1Jn 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Jn 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
We come clean with God about our past sin and WALK in the light. IF we do this then God is willing to cleanse us of all sin by the blood of Christ.
How hard it that to understand? It isn't really.
N. According to you, an individual who will not DIRECTLY address the things I write, who instead twists them into some strawman, which you then proceed to make unsubstantiated claims about.
You are being completely dishonest to operate in such a manner. Romans 5 means what it says, it just doesn't mean what you THINK it says because you are under strong delusion.
Abraham was under the law of conscience. Death still reigned from Adam to Moses because they could sin could still occasion by the law of conscience and still work death. Thus they may not have sinned in the same manner as Adam (violate a direct commandment) but they could still sin.
The faith of Abraham was counted for righteousness because it was a GENUINE FAITH that TRUSTED and WALKED.
Rom 4:10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Rom 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
Rom 4:12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
Abraham WALKED IN THE STEPS of his genuine faith.
Rom 4:20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
Rom 4:21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
Rom 4:22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
Abraham's faith was reckoned as righteousness because he staggered not and was fully pursuaded and thus he WALKED by his faith. That is why it was reckoned as righteousness.
Yet that is not what the "Imputed Righteousness of Christ" doctrine teaches. That doctrine teaches that the obedient track record of Jesus is credited to the believers account. In other words it teaches a MORAL TRANSFER that has NOTHING to do with any walk. People are taught to simply "trust in the transfer" and PRESTO they are righteous. The Bible doesn't teach anything like that anywhere.
Pure rhetoric without any basis in the Bible whatsoever.
Faith is a WALK for it is OBEDIENCE FROM THE HEART because we FULLY TRUST and thus WE PERFORM. Just like Noah, Abraham and Abel. They were all DOERS.
You are claiming that one simply "trusts in what Jesus did on the cross" and PRESTO one is righteous. That is NONSENSE because Jesus did not do on the cross what you think He did. Penal Substitution is a 400 year old false doctrine and you are putting your faith in a 400 year old fable invented by men.
Your adherence to this fable forces you to view the "death of Christ" as effecting a PROVISION which you merely "trust in" which then CLOAKS YOUR WICKEDNESS. It is satanic deception you have fallen for, you have fallen for it hook, line and sinker and even contend to others to fall for it. How sad.
Righteousness is not by the law because the law only regulates the outer man.
I can obey "thou shalt not kill" but that does not make me righteous. I can still have murder in the heart.
True righteousness is via GRACE THROUGH FAITH because instead of being regulated by "rules and regulations" we are regulated by a "faith that works by love."
Paul was DEAD TO THE LAW that he might LIVE UNTO GOD.
Gal 2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
Compare to...
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Rom 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
That is what Paul is speaking about, not some notion of "do nothing and trust in a provision."
Yet somehow you cannot see the plainly obvious. The issue is HEART PURITY.
Read the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5. There Jesus raises the issue of "do not commit adultery" and "do not commit murder" and Jesus explicitly teaches that "outward observance" is not genuine righteousness. There must be INWARD OBSERVANCE via a FAITH THAT WORKS BY LOVE. That is why Jesus said it is the PURE IN HEART who will see God.
Jesus didn't teach that righteousness is premised in an abstract legal provision which cloaks an actual manifest filthy rags state. How can you fall for such an obvious deception?
.
No.
I am frustrating your perverted understanding of the grace of God. The grace of God that brings salvation teaches us...
Tit 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
The grace you believe in is a sin cloak, a legal fiction, an absurd magical inference, a deception.
You have completely bought into the 400 year old deception of the Reformers and by doing so you have been mentally immunised to the truth. It is a shame because it does not have to be that way. You can still wake up and I hope you do.
