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Great post!
Hoss
Wonderful.
Thanks for posting this.
It’s when we really understand the substitutionary atonement, that we can stop trying to merit our own salvation.
Ping for AM
Very well expained. I like this author.
RCs struggle with this text (2Cor. 5:21) because they dismiss imputation as legal fiction, as they teach that God justifies the unGodly by faith by actually making him Godly, fit for Heaven, via the “infused” holiness which their sprinkling sacrament effects, even if one is incapable of faith.
In conversion one is washed and regenerated, but if the effects of regeneration justifies one, then Abraham would have becoming born again in Gn. 15:6, or otherwise suddenly become actually good at that point. Likewise the justified penitent publican in Lk. 18.
Yet for a RC one needs to be morally perfect to enter Heaven, thus since one began his salvation journey by actually becoming good enough to be with God via a sacrament, then this typically must culminate in once again actually becoming good enough to be with God via postmortem suffering in purgatory.
But it is hardly reasonable to hold that the contrite criminal became morally perfect in his short time on the cross.
RCs allow that Christ bore our sins, and suffered for them, but unless he literally became sin, which they deny with us, then you have the Lord laying upon Christ the iniquity of us all, (Is. 53:6) without this meaning imputation.
But to take responsibility for sins means that our guilt is imposed upon the sacrificial entity, as was done with the scapegoat in Lv. 16, over whom the high priest confessed all the sins of Israel upon.