“DECLARED JUST OR MADE JUST?”

The purity of the Pauline doctrine of justification by faith, can be maintained only by continual battle and eternal vigilance.

“If it is lost” said Luther over and over “all will be lost”, and darkness, error and superstition will again triumph in the church.

Now well meaning people say to us “Why not write about something more relevant, as is happening in the Ukraine and Russia, China even, or the evils of the modern world?”

To which we answer “Yes, that’s all well and good, but if you concentrate on becoming a ‘Johnny One Note’ … as many ministries are today … you will forget, indeed lose, the only essence upon which sound Christian doctrine is built, with the end result being, that the church will be white-anted by all sorts of spurious doctrines.”

Like taking a rattle off a baby … when distracted with another toy … it quickly forgets about the rattle.

To wit:
Going round the churches today … yes Dear Reader, these are the ‘newly’ and ‘respectfully’ termed D.O.G.S – Doctrines of Grace aka Calvinists … indeed as has been since the 1^st century … is the evil notion that to justify is to make righteous … which flies in the face of Paul’s Romans chapters three and four … that is … to justify is to declare righteous.

Summary:
D.O.G.S aka Calvinists aka Roman Catholics = MADE RIGHTEOUS
PAUL = DECLARED RIGHTEOUS

The D.O.G.S argument is as follows:
What God declares becomes fact, for example “Let there be light and there was light” (Genesis 1:3) … that is … God’s word accomplishes what it declares.

However, D.O.G.S deliberately? and ignorantly? and willingly? muddy the waters by combining … that is … unifying … the declaration with the end result … not realizing they side with the Roman Catholic meaning of “justify” = to make righteous.

Secondly, can they be such inept etymologists and linguists, as not to realize that the Word, Christ himself, spoke the words before there was light.

In essence, the D.O.G … yes Dear Reader, Spurgeon himself … a Christian believing the Roman Catholic doctrine of justification … a Doctrines of Grace man … fell foul to the erroneous, evil and totally wrong stance of melding … that is making one and unifying … the two notions of justification and sanctification … and this is nothing but classic Roman Catholic theology.

Yes, Doctrines Of Grace is plural … and these stand for T.U.L.I.P. – Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace and Perseverance of the Saints.

Now for all the hatred that D.O.G.S aka Cavinists aka Roman Catholics have for a forensic .. that is imputed … justification, they cannot escape from the judicial meaning of “justify” in Paul … that on linguistic grounds “justify” must be declaratory.

The D.O.G.S aka Calvinists have mindlessly swallowed, ‘hook line and sinker’, the Roman Catholic meaning - “to make righteous”.

Like a convicted criminal, when DECLARED free by a judge, there has been NO internal change in the man … that is … he has not been made righteous!

It has been external, forensic, legal and imputed!

 
Harley Hitchcock

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