THE CREDIT CARD GOSPEL
I hear people say things like “All my sins are credited to Christ’s account and His righteousness is credited to my account, so God saw Jesus as sinful and He sees me as righteous even though I still sin daily. And I am saved even though I still sin because all my sins (past, present, and future) are credited to Christ’s account and not to mine.”
19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation1
Jessie you lie right out of the start. Yes Jesus took all my sin and gave me all his righteousness.
Then you say all my sins are not forgiven another lie
11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.2
He died for all past and furtue sins so you lied there
It sounds to me like their whole view of the scheme of salvation is like a “credit card” that lets them buy sin. They can keep Sinning and don’t have to stop because of this credit system. Jesus becomes like a credit card and you can rack up an unlimited debt because Christ will pay for it.
In this view, the atonement isn’t a means by which you can be pardoned if you repent of your sins, or a means of being saved out of your sins and transformed in heart and life, but instead the cross allows you to continue in your daily sins and still be saved because it is all credited to His account. No personal change of conduct or character is required because all is charged to Christ.
So it to you is a work if you change thus making your good works a thing to trust in when the bible said they are like pure dung. No it is not a thing to just let you sin and yews you will sin less but you think you must be perfect and there is n o forgiveness of sin.
God doesn’t see your sins as your sins but as His, punishing Him for them and not you. No amount of sinning would incur the punishment of God to you personally. Your account before God is always righteous no matter how many times a day you actually sin.
Jesus did die for all sin and thus his righteousness is now mine. God punished Jesus for all my sins and gave me his righteousness. It is called Justifcation. And I got it the day I got saved.
It’s like a billionaires Son given an unlimited credit card to go on a shopping spree and the son is never liable to pay because the card is in his fathers name. Likewise, people think salvation in Christ allows them to unlimited sins with impunity. NO
The whole idea is that we have exchanged our personal identity for His, and He assumes ours, so He “positionally and legally” became us in punishment and we “positionally and legally” became Him before the eyes of God.
These doctrines of imputation, Penal Substitution, Belief without Repentance, and Eternal Security all go hand in hand as a system of thought.
Yep called the Gospel which you do not teach. Nope you are false
PENAL
SUBSTITUTION
After the rubric of obedience to the Father, the most
fundamental description one can ascribe to the atonement is that it
is a work of penal substitution. That is to say, on the cross, Jesus
suffered the penalty for the sins of his people (hence penal) as a
substitute for them (hence substitution). When man sinned against
God, his sin erected a legal and relational barrier between him and
God. The divine law was broken; man thus incurred guilt and is
required to pay the penalty of spiritual death. The holiness of God
was offended, and thus God’s wrath was aroused against sin. This
leaves man alienated from God; broken fellowship and even hostility
mark the relationship between God and man, who is in bondage to sin
and death. If there is to be any redemption from sin and
reconciliation to God, man’s sin must be atoned for. And yet man’s
spiritual death and depravity leave him unable to pay the penalty for
his sin. However, God in his love has appointed the Lord Jesus Christ
to stand in the place of sinners to bear their sin, guilt, and
punishment and thereby satisfy God’s wrath on their behalf.
For this reason Isaiah characterizes the suffering
servant as the one who “has borne our griefs and carried our
sorrows” (Isa. 53:4), who “bore the sin of many” (Isa. 53:12).
“The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isa. 53:6),
and so “he shall bear their iniquities” (Isa. 53:11). Thus, when
Jesus comes into the world, John the Baptist announces him as “the
Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29)—that
is, by taking sin on himself. The apostle Paul declares that “for
our sake [the Father] made [Jesus] to be sin” (2 Cor. 5:21a), which
cannot mean that the Father turned Jesus into sin in any ontological
sense but rather that he made him to be sin in the same sense in
which he makes us to become the righteousness of God (2 Cor. 5:21b):
by imputation—that is, by counting our guilt to be his. The curse
of the law that we were under was borne by Christ, who became a curse
for us (Gal. 3:13). The apostle Peter says, “He himself bore our
sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to
righteousness.” Then, quoting Isaiah’s account of the suffering
servant, he adds, “By his wounds you have been healed” (1 Pet.
2:24; cf. Heb. 9:28). The Lord Jesus Christ bore the punishment of
the sins of his people and thereby brought them blessing: “He was
pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace” (Isa. 53:5).
In addition to these clear statements, the New
Testament attaches the concept of penal substitution to the cross of
Christ by using four Greek prepositions that all have a
substitutionary force: peri (“for,” “concerning”), dia
(“because of,” “for the sake of”), anti (“in place of,”
“instead of”), and hyper (“on behalf of”). First, Christ
“suffered … for sins” (Gk. peri hamartiōn, 1 Pet. 3:18) and
thus is “the propitiation for our sins” (Gk. peri tōn hamartiōn
hēmōn, 1 John 2:2; 4:10). These texts teach that our sins demanded
that we suffer under the wrath of God yet that Christ has done this
in our place. Second, Jesus is said to have died “for your sake”
(Gk. di’ hymas, 2 Cor. 8:9; cf. 1 Cor. 8:11), another clear
indicator of substitution.
Third, the preposition anti is perhaps the strongest
indicator of substitution, literally signifying “in place of.”
This sense is clearest in Matthew 2:22, where it speaks of “Archelaus
… reigning over Judea in place of [anti] his father Herod.”
Matthew 5:38 also uses anti to translate the lex talionis—“An eye
for [anti] an eye and a tooth for [anti] a tooth”—which mandated
that an offender be deprived of his eye or tooth in place of the eye
or tooth of which he deprived someone else. Jesus uses this phrase
with respect to his own death when he says, “For even the Son of
Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a
ransom for many” (Gk. anti pollōn, Matt. 20:28; Mark 10:45). That
is to say, while sinners deserved to die because of their sin, Jesus
laid down his life as the ransom price in the place of the lives of
his people, so that they might go free.
Finally, while anti has the strongest connotations of
substitution, hyper is a close second, meaning “on behalf of.” It
is also by far the most common preposition to signify the
substitutionary relationship between Christ and his people. The body
of Christ is “given for you” (Gk. hyper hymōn, Luke 22:19; cf. 1
Cor. 11:24) and “for the life of the world” (Gk. hyper tēs tou
kosmou zōēs, John 6:51), and the blood of the new covenant is
poured out “for many” (Gk. hyper pollōn, Mark 14:24) and “for
you” (Gk. hyper hymōn, Luke 22:20). That is to say, Christ’s
body and blood are given as a substitutionary sacrifice on behalf of
sinners so that they might avert wrath and punishment. As the Good
Shepherd, Jesus lays down his life on behalf of the sheep (Gk. hyper
tōn probatōn, John 10:11, 15; cf. 1 John 3:16), and he died on
behalf of us, the ungodly (Gk. hyper asebōn, Rom. 5:6; hyper hēmōn,
Rom. 5:8; 1 Thess. 5:10). He gave himself for his bride, the church
(Eph. 5:25), which Paul describes both collectively (Eph. 5:2; Titus
2:14) and personally (Gal. 2:20). On our behalf (Gk. hyper hēmōn)
he was made sin (2 Cor. 5:21), became a curse (Gal. 3:13), and tasted
death (Heb. 2:9). The Righteous One suffered the penalty of sin on
behalf of the unrighteous (Gk. dikaios hyper adikōn) so that he
might reconcile those sinners to God (1 Pet. 3:18).
As the above passages show, there is no more
well-attested doctrine in all the New Testament than the vicarious
suffering of the Lord Jesus Christ on behalf of his people.
Penal-substitutionary atonement is woven into the fabric of new
covenant revelation from beginning to end, for it is the very heart
of the gospel message. In free and willing obedience to his Father,
the Lord Jesus Christ has stood in the stead of sinners, has died as
a sacrifice for their sin and guilt, has propitiated the Father’s
wrath toward them, has reconciled them to the God for whom they were
created, has redeemed them out of the bondage of sin and death, and
has conquered the rule of sin and Satan in their lives. Each of those
themes—sacrifice, propitiation, reconciliation, redemption, and
conquest—is a different facet of Christ’s substitutionary work
and deserves further examination.3
There are elements of truth in every heresy. It is true that Christ died for our sins, that we are imputed righteous by faith apart from works of the law, that through Christ God wont punish us for our sins, etc, but only if we first repent of our sins. No such salvation exists for those who continue in sin. Turning from sin is a condition to getting saved and staying away from sin is a condition of staying saved. The Bible warns that you can lose your salvation and also that people can still go to hell for their sins, despite the atonement of Christ that was made for them, if they remain impenitent over their sins.
NO WHERE IN THE BIBLE DID IT SAY YHIS. LIE. IF JESUS DIED FOR THEM THE SIN IS PAID FOR.
Nothing ruins theology and twists the scriptures more than sinful minds who want to accommodate their sinfulness.
My encounters with these people over the past 18 years often results in them accusing me of preaching “another gospel,” or “false gospel,” or “salvation by works,” or “heresy,” or “not preaching the Gospel” or “trusting in your own righteousness,” etc. At first I was always baffled and dumbfounded by these wild and bizarre accusations.
I understand now why these people say that I am preaching “another gospel,” and “works” or even “heresy” when I preach that you must repent of your sins to be saved from Gods wrath, that real Christians live holy and righteous by faith, and that your eternal security is conditional upon perseverance in living faith so that you can lose your salvation and are once again under God’s wrath by returning to your sins. And I understand now why they say “If Jesus died for everyone, everyone would be saved” given their view of the atonement, and why they get so upset and emotional if you question Penal Substitution and the Imputation System, since that is the essence of their gospel. And, since I don’t preach these things, they accuse me not “not preaching the gospel,” even though I preach that Jesus died for everyone and those who repent are forgiven through the cross.
I have always believed that “salvation by Christ” was primarily a change of moral character, whereby we are born again into new people with new hearts and new conduct, and are only saved from hell or from the penalty of our sins after such a change has taken place. I never viewed salvation as a scheme whereby I was saved by Christ from hell while I continued in my sins, or as salvation from the future penalty of sin but not from the present practice of sin. I’ve always viewed “salvation in sin” as the counterfeit Gospel of false converts who haven’t really been born again. So my accusers really are right when they say we are preaching different Gospels
THEN YOU DO NOT TRUST THE GOD OF THE
BIBLE. YOU DO NOT TRUST JESUS ALONE FOR SALVATION AND YOU ARE NOT IN
JESUS. JESUS CHANGES YOU YOU DO NOT CHANGE TO GET SAVED. YOU DO NOT
PREACH THE TRUTH RAY COMFORRT IS NOT A ALLY OF YOUR YOUR IN SIN AND
YOUR NOT SAVED.
1
Tyndale House Publishers. (2013). Holy
Bible: New Living Translation (2 Co 5:18–19).
Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.
2
The
New King James Version. (1982). (Col 2:11–15).
Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
3
MacArthur, J., & Mayhue, R. (Eds.). (2017). Biblical
Doctrine: A Systematic Summary of Bible Truth
(pp. 522–524). Wheaton, IL: Crossway.
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