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Your claim that faith = works does not line up with Scripture. Romans 4 tells us faith ≠ works:
You teach faith as a condition man performs to get Justified, thats works all day. When you make anything a condition to do, in order for God to respond and Justify you, its works. Plus by creation man is bound by law to have Faith in God, which is a law of creation Matt 23:23
23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin,
and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy,
and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Good passage which I agree with, you dont, because you make faith, believing a condition to get Justified, this passage doesnt do that.
Those whose sins God has been propitiated for, those people are yet Justified.
nope ... it means the sin issue has been dealt with.
Uh oh, you short changing the saving virtue of the blood of Christ.
Since sin has been dealt with, what is the issue???
There is no issue, Christ put sin away, made a end to it, for His Elect
Heb 9:26
For then must he often have suffered
since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath
he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Dan 9:24
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city,
to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Those whose sins have been put away, made an end to, are saved, Justified !
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ:
for it [the gospel] is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Agreed, this is referring to the regenerate, only the born of God believe.
Rom 1:18 applies to all who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
It applies to the reprobate, who Christ didnt die for. People who Christ died for, God will have mercy on their unrighteousness Heb 8:12
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For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
See Christ died for the sin of suppressing the truth, thats what lost sinners do naturally.
Please note that the verse does not state they cannot believe. The verse clearly states that what may be known of God is manifest in them; for God shewed it to them.
But that cant believe the Gospel, no lost person can. And God has already predestinated them vessels of wrath and fits them for destruction, those folks are condemned, and Gods wrath abideth on them.