The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum What is the Corrct Atonement view?

I thought I had made this issue clear. It is not a matter of "emphasis" but of total denial. FV and NPP along with their variants totally deny the IMPUTATION of Christ's active obedience. They redefine 'imputation' as they do to many other terms, e.g., faith, justification, etc. This is Justification 101. If you do not have a firm biblical understanding of what justification IS and what it MEANS, then you are going to have myriad problems trying to comprehend any and all heresies on this subject. This is why I told you several times to forget about reading the endless material written that teaches error. You FIRST need to know Scripture and what IT teaches and then saturate yourself with the writings of the godly orthodox men of the past; the Reformers and Puritans for a start.

When the Spirit regenerates a spiritually dead sinner, that person is given the insatiable desire to seek and grasp onto the PERSON of the Lord Christ via genuine heart-felt conviction of sin which expresses itself in repentance, and a true living faith (fiducia). At the moment this occurs, God declares that believer justified ONCE AND FOR ALL, i.e., the perfect righteousness of Christ (active obedience) is imputed to his account. Consequently, the sinner is legally not guilty and no longer under condemnation. But further, that believer is deemed to be perfectly righteousness legally. Luther's declaration is succinct: simul iustus et peccator (simultaneously [at the same time] just [perfectly righteous] and sinner.)