You contradict yourself Jason.
Out of one side of your mouth you speak of "free will choices" and then out of the other you speak of...
How can you possibly uphold free will if you claim babies sin from their very birth?
You have thrown CHOICE out the window as it pertains to sin. You cannot logically have it both ways.
You cannot teach that, on the one hand, you are responsible for your sin due to choice and then, on the other hand, teach that all people sin due to lack of choice. Cannot you see the logical inconsistency in your thinking?
You conclude...
Where does the Bible teach that the "righteousness of Christ" is imputed to you when you accept Jesus as your saviour?
The Bible does not teach that. The Bible teaches that God reckons FAITH ITSELF as righteousness (Rom 4:5). Why don't you teach what the Bible teaches? Why do you instead teach what the Reformers taught with their "moral transfer" doctrine?
Original Sin is not true nor is the Reformed doctrine of "imputed righteousness of Christ." Impure means RECKON and God simply counts the FAITH of the faithful as righteousness because it is representative of a pure heart. In other words God does not count our past sins against us if we have truly repented and are walking faithfully. There is no "imputed righteousness of Christ." Quote me anywhere in the Bible which teaches that the "righteousness of Christ" is imputed to anyone. It is not in the Bible, the Bible specifically says...
Rom 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,
his faith is counted for righteousness.
Faith is counted for righteousness. What kind of faith? A faith that WALKS (Rom 4:12), a faith that establishes the law of God in the heart (Rom 3:31), a faith that works by love (Gal 5:6). Why not teach that instead of the traditions of men?
You go on...
I have shown you before but you don't seem to care Jason.
Heb 9:14 How much more shall
the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 And
for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Heb 9:16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Heb 9:17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Heb 9:18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
Heb 9:19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
Heb 9:20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
The Bible teaches that Jesus died in order to cleanse our conscience from the guilt associated with our past sins. This guilt is purged via entering into the New Covenant with God via the blood of Jesus Christ, the covenant which Jesus put into force through His death.
The death of Jesus Christ has NOTHING to do with this false doctrine of Penal Substitution. Nor does it have anything to do with the false doctrines of Moral Government or Satisfaction (which are all substitutional).
The substitution for the wrath you deserve is your REPENTANCE AND FAITH which is something God has granted you through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. In other words, without the New Covenant there would be no means to find reconciliation with God because God would not have provided such a means.
Jesus did not die as your substitute. Jesus died on your behalf and Jesus died as your example. A substitute is not an example, a substitute is a replacement. Jesus is not your replacement. Jesus is your LEADER and you are to FOLLOW.
Where? Where is it clearly taught?
Where in those chapters does it teach that the "righteousness of Christ" is credited to your account?
Where in those chapters does it teach that Jesus died as your substitute?
Rom 5:18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Do you really think your guilt is associated with simply BEING BORN because Adam chose to sin? Adam sinned for you and you are guilty because of that? Adam was your disobedience substitute? Adam disobeyed for you?
Do you really think your righteousness is associated with simply ACCEPTING JESUS because Jesus obeyed God? Jesus obeyed for you and you are righteous because of that? Jesus was your obedience substitute? Jesus obeyed for you?
That is EXACTLY how "Original Sin" and the "Imputed Righteousness of Christ" doctrines utilise that verse. How can you be so easily deceived by such nonsense Jason?
Judgement came upon all through Adam in the context of EXAMPLE. Adam led the way in sinning against God and ALL HAVE SINNED and thus all have wrought their own condemnation.
om 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that
all have sinned:
Not that "all have sinned IN Adam" as Augustine believed due to the error in the Vulgate, no, rather that all have sinned either like Adam (disobedience to a direct command) or sinned unlike Adam (disobedience to the light of conscience).
Rom 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Original Sin is not taught in Romans chapter 5. People just say it is and then others repeat it like mindless parrots.
Is that so?
To deny that which is not in the Bible is to deny the Gospel? Where did Jesus teach Original Sin and where did Jesus teach that His righteousness would be credited to your account? Jesus taught...
Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, That
except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus said "YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS" and the context was clearly related to HEART PURITY. You don't preach the Gospel Jason, you preach a perverted message premised on the teachings of men and then somehow try and mix "obedience to God" into it. You need to count it all dung (like Paul) and start fresh.
Jesus Christ dying FOR YOU does not equate to DYING IN YOUR PLACE. When Jesus...
Heb 9:16 For where a testament is,
there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
... He did not do that as your substitute because you could not do it. Only Jesus was spotless and without blame, only Jesus was worthy.
Jesus Christ dying FOR YOU does not equate to DYING IN YOUR PLACE. When Jesus...
1Pe 2:21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
1Pe 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
1Pe 2:23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
1Pe 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
... He did not do that as your substitute but did it as an EXAMPLE that you might FOLLOW IN HIS STEPS.
Joh 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Joh 12:25
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
Joh 12:26
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Jesus did not teach substitution anywhere and Jesus PREACHED THE GOSPEL.
Babies are born subject to the natural passions of the flesh. They are not sinners.
Sinning unto death involves REBELLION TO GOD and REBELLION REQUIRES KNOWLEDGE AND CHOICE.
I bet Jesus did the wrong thing in ignorance as a baby. I bet Jesus pooped his pants. I bet Jesus made a mess as an infant. I bet Jesus cried because he wanted something. Yet when the intellect of Jesus developed enough where He was aware of the light of conscience He did not CHOOSE to rebel against God and that is why He is worthy. If there is no CHOICE then vice and virtue have zero meaning. Is that not self evident?
Jesus never pooped His pants as an infant? Do you think somehow Jesus, as an infant, was not subject to the natural passions of the flesh like any other baby?
There are none that teach that man is BORN WICKED AND CONDEMNED.
We must be born again because God is Spirit and to abide with God we must walk in the Spirit. The necessity of the new birth has nothing to do with being "born a sinner." We are born carnal subject to base passions, we have to rise above that through CHOICE and bring our bodies into subjection to God.
Here is the recommended reading list from your link...
Recommended Reading
A whose who list of people who all argued in favour of being able to sin and not surely die.
You might as well be because your theology is established on the exact same foundation and thus you are really in opposition to yourself. Not only that but you blatantly promote Calvinist material.
You really need to stop posting an reconsider your position Jason. You are under a strong delusion.