[Campion]

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
— Is 55:11 (NKJV)

You're right, Gamecock, forensic justification is one of the primary Calvinist errors.

For Rome the declaration of justice follows the making inwardly just of the regenerate sinner.

This is false; the word which declares the sinner just makes him just in the same act. God's declarations enact reality. When the Bible says God said, "Let there be light," the next verse does not say, "And light was forensically declared to exist, though everything was as dark as it was before."

The Bible speaks figuratively about the sin being washed, cleansed, healed, and blotted out.

There is nothing even slightly figurative about it. It's really what God does. Calvinists always, ad nauseam, accuse Catholics of denigrating the Cross. This denigrates the Cross. To claim that the Cross only achieved a "figurative" blotting out of sin and that all the grace of justification does is change how God views us without changing us … it's just sad, when the real Gospel is so much better.

… put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness -- Eph 4:24 (NKJV)

[armydoc]

This is false; the word which declares the sinner just makes him just in the same act. God's declarations enact reality.

So would that mean that our sin was not merely "imputed" upon Jesus in a "forensic" fashion, but that He became actually sinful in thought, word and deed?