We are not clockworks, we choose how to "walk".
So the clock makes itself and decides how to function?
The Gospel is full of calls to good works. If they were programmed into us and as you say "accomplished by God the Son and imputed to us", none of the exhortations would be there.
And those calls go out to all the world. Who responds in faith which is the only marker of salvation? Those whom God first regenerates by the Holy Spirit to repent of their sins, to obey God and to do the good works of Christ within them.
Read the scripture, "doctor", not Calvin the charlatan.
Well, "Anna," I thank God for His word which is superior to men and their doctrines, unlike Rome which elevates tradition above Scripture, as RC apologists have told us on this very thread.
Thanks for all your pings, Dr E, bros & sis.
Am way behind. Not likely to get caught up any time soon.
No,however God makes man in such a way that he, man, can decide how to function (Eph. 2:10).
And those calls go out to all the world. Who responds in faith which is the only marker of salvation?
That is not what Matthew 25:31-46 say. He who do the works is saved. We can suspect a good deal of faith in him, but that is not what the scripture says. The response to a call to good works is do the works. "So we should walk in them". More scripture, less Calvin, please.