Pilgrim said:
The WCF is biblically correct in its teaching on justification; no error there whatsoever. The decree to justify, the atonement which secured justification and the APPLICATION of all that the atonement secured unto justification are inseparable but mutually exclusive, i.e., they are not synonymous but rather different elements of the whole of God's salvation of the elect.
No, you aren't reading the WFC wrongly, but rather, you have erred!
In His grace,
I do not believe I have Pilgrim. Is nto Justification, the declaration that a person is righteouss and not guilty a one time event? I have read the Murray book, I have been referred to the murray book but countless WC subscritpionists.
I used to lean towrds JIE, then I believed justification at the point of faith.
There more I look at the writ, neither fit the bill.
Romans 5:10 answers your objection to justification at the cross. This is the Pauline truth.
If you are admitting the wcf # 9 is correct when it promotes that God still charges us the debt of our sin, until He sees fit to regenerate us and apply the benefits, this makes God very inconsistant.
This is like me paying off my car loan . then asking the bank for the title, and them refusing to give it to me.
Romans 5 10 states exactly the point in time we were reconciled. At His death. There fore one can logically conclude this reconcilliation =justification. You cannot have one without the other.
JIE says we have justification without reconciliation, JAR?JAF says we have reconciliation without justification.
But the inspired word says neither are correct.
Look at 2Cor 5 also.17-20 Paul expounds on this reconciliation again and this newness of life, this new creation. Which he concludes is at the point of the cross.
Now we must also conclude that there is definately an eternal element to justification. That is because God's justification is not bound by linear time. SO the cross to Him is the pinnacle of events with no beginning or end. This is also the only way to determine how future sins are forgiven. Hence Romes error of repeating the sacrafice of Christ. The cross of Crist is transcendant of linear time if the workings of God.
I am nto going to budge here. In fact these ideas have produced the rotten fruit of conditional calvinists.
