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Martin Marprelate · Mar 23, 2022

JonC said: ↑

Calvinism ultimately believes our salvation is through the law. They believe that Christ came to keep (rather than to fulfilled) the law, and His "perfect lawkeeping" is imputed to us.

Calvinism misinterpret the nature and purpose of the law. Calvinusm missinterprets redemption. Calvinism misinterprets Atonement. Calvinism misses the Cross. The reason is they start not with God but with the law.
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As usual, you have no Biblical response (like actually dealing with the two verses I referenced) but instead you attack "Calvinism," thus revealing that you have no idea what Calvinism actually teaches.

JesusFan · Mar 23, 2022

JonC said: ↑

On another thread my belief that our salvation is God's righteousness manifested apart from the law was challenged. This was far from the first time, but it is the most recent:

The reading I believe as I do is:

Romans 3:21–31 But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction;
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
25 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed;
26 for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
27 Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.
29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
30 since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one.
31 Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.

So is our salvation a manifestation of God's righteousness apart from the law or within the law?
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saved by Jesus being the One who kept fully the requirements of the law, and whose death saved us, as he was imputed our sins so that we might receive the imputation of his own righteousness!

AustinC · Mar 23, 2022

Propitiation: The word occurs three times in the AV, in connection with the death of Christ (Rom 3:25; 1Jn 2:2; 4:10; to which RV adds Heb 2:17).

Propitiation refers to the turning away of the wrath of God as the just judgment of our sin by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. “Propitiation is used in the New Testament to describe the pacifying, placating, or appeasing of God’s wrath” (Kevin DeYoung).
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Propitiation - The Gospel Coalition

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