Does God wait for a person himself to become righteous through righteous works, before the person is declared Justified (made righteous) by God at new-birth? Yes or No ?

I. Apostolic and Historic True Believers since Christ, say "No."  
To you who repent and believe (commit to Him as your resurrected Lord), your sins and sinful nature are imputed by God's accounting (imputed, first, Rom 4:8 and 2 Cor 5:19) as removed in Christ's shed blood and Death; and a right-relationship to God is accounted (imputed, second, Rom 4:24; 5:10, and 6:11) as in His resurrection of Life.  By these first two imputations, sin is no longer accounted (imputed) to us. See important footnote.⁹

Thereby, THEN, as restored clean new vessels, He Justly gives (IMPARTS, not imputes) faith to us and other fruit and gifts of the Holy Spirit of Himself, indwelling our renewed cleaned spirits and souls in our birth-from-above. This indwelling Presence of the Mind of Christ (faith) in our spirits is then accounted (imputed, third, Rom 4:5-6, 11-12) to us for (eis, for the purpose or result of) RIGHTEOUSNESS (Rom 4:13-25 and 5:13-21).   

The Greek word translated impute simply means "to account, to reckon," and nothing else.  Impute does not imply transfer of any moral character or position from Christ to us.  We are accounted righteous because of Christ Himself being within us, nothing of ourselves (Eph 2:8). This is scriptural imputation in its entirety.⁴   Must read footnote, please.⁴

Please notice from careful reading of the above THREE paragraphs, the death and resurrection of Christ, are accounted (imputed) as a provision to us (who are repenting and committing to Lord Jesus Christ) of a right relationship to God.    That the righteousness of Christ Himself (sitting in Heaven) is imputed to us is NOT found in the Bible.  His righteousness is His righteousness, Eternal God's Righteousness.   There is no such thing as transfer of God's Attributes in scripture.  God does not play "as if" games.

At this time, our righteousness is "imparted" to us (not imputed) through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of Christ Himself in us (faith), to whom our obedience is now required.  Called the obedience of faith (Rom 1:5 and 16:26).  The righteousness of God is then imputed (accounted) to us, AFTER the "imparted" indwelling faith (indwelling Holy Spirit Mind of Christ in our own spirit) just as it was to Abraham, "through faith" alone, at this time.⁸   You must see footnote.⁸


In the scripture, "through (dia in genitive case means, through an agent) faith," means faith is the agent through which righteousness is "imparted" to us.  By putting our flesh natures and sins in His grave and then rising from His grave, He Justly imputes His death and imputes His resurrection sinless Life to us.  THEN to our cleansed spirit, soul, and body (through His death and His resurrection, both imputed to us), He can JUSTLY enter to dwell in us HIMSELF (imparting His Righteousness), and, thereby, He may also JUSTLY account (impute, account) us as righteous in (ev, inside) Himself.   All three imputation (accountings) are simply "all in Christ Himself."   There is no transfer of any Attribute of God in scripture.

All our Justification is through Christ Himself Personally doing it, while His Father just watched in pleasure, and His Angels in wonderment.  And all dependent upon His Personal Death (taking our flesh natures to the grave) and His Personal Resurrection (rising in New Life) and Personally Indwelling us.

"And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people" (2 Cor 6:16).

Rom 5:8-11   But God commendeth His Love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, being now justified (made right-related, righteous) by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by HIS Life.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have NOW received the atonement (restoration).

Col 1:27  "Christ in (ev, inside) you, the hope (expectation, not a wish) of Glory (Spiritual Perfection)."

  1 Cor 1:30   But of Him are ye in (ev) Christ Jesus, Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption (629, apolutrosis, releasing restoration): 
Child simple.

Our true, factual actual, righteousness is, imparted, only in (ev, inside) Jesus Christ as He indwells us NOW.   Praise His Holy Name, Lord Jesus Christ.     Likewise, we only have eternal Life as He Himself, who is Eternal Life, and if He is indwelling us. 

Our righteousness and Holiness is only within Jesus Christ Himself as He is indwelling us, just as Eternal Life is only very partially at this time experienced as He Himself is experienced within us and through us.  Therefore, it is said, God has "given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts" (2 Cor 1:22). 

He who brags that he, himself, now possesses Eternal Life is like a proud fool  (Prov 18:2) and does not understand the scriptures nor himself.  Since the Garden of Eden, Eternal Life is safeguarded within Christ Himself.  "Christ in (ev) you, our hope (expectation, not a wish) of Glory" (Col 1:27 and 1 Jn 3:2-3)

However, Rightousness, is in fact actually accomplished (imparted not imputed) into our spirits by Christ Indwelling us with His OWN indwelling Righteous Presence and Eternal Life in our spirits NOW,⁵  called Baptism of (or in, ev) the Holy Spirit (see footnote ³)  at our birth-from-above, when Christ Himself begins dwelling in each of us.

This new indwelling birth Life brings us, as entirely new creations, into immediate fellowship with God through Christ His Son in us, the hope of the Spiritual perfection of God, and we are to walk obediently in conformity to His directing us from within our regenerated Spirits.  The victorious answer is now enshrined in Rom 5:10, 7:25, and 8:1-16.   "The just (righteous) shall Live by faith."  "Whatsoever, is not of faith is sin" (Rom 14:23).       Selah.

The scriptures are very explanatory.

Gal 3:22-29
22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto  (eis, "for result of") Christ, that we might be justified (might be made righteous, aorist pass. subjunctive) by (ek, "out from") faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26 For ye are all the children of God by (dia, genitive, "through") faith in (ev, "inside of") Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Rom 4:13
13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Rom 4:22-23
22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

Rom 5:1
 Therefore being justified (made righteous) by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

The dead mud statue (self-serving flesh nature) is completely irradicated in Christ's death removing it, destroying it.  The mud statue is instantaneously replaced by a perfect righteous Living image of His risen Lord in righteousness with fellowship to His Heavenly Father now restored effectively within us. 

Additionally, this NEW instantaneous figure of the SECOND MAN, Christ Himself indwelling us; this imputed righteous stature is also "in the present" become an instantaneous LIVING Righteous Life of Christ, through Christ's resurrection Life NOW indwelling us, gifting us, and empowering us--NEW CREATIONs NOW, Living images of Christ in His Spirit.  

Behold all things have become new--the mud statue is replaced with a Living Live image, yet not of its own ability, it is NOW replaced through Christ's Atonement (Death and resurrection resoration of Life for us) with a New LIVING active LIVE LIFE, no longer dead in trespasses and sin, but Living to serve his Heavenly Father. 

The new man is now LIVING and now HOLY, RIGHTEOUS, and WALKING IN FELLOWSHIP with his Creator through the indwelling faith of Christ in him.  Because he still has the sin-nature as long as he is in the old man's body, he is warned and enjoined to focus all his mind, soul, and strength to be obedient to His now indwelling Life, the Mind of Christ in his now replaced and Living Spirit, to lead and keep him in the fellowship and oneness with His Heavenly Father, to victoriously shun sin, flesh, and the devil.  

Now, Christ in us fulfills the Law, the first and greatest commandment, to Love the Lord thy God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and the second commandment, like unto the first, to Love our neighbors as (in the same manner as) ourselves (Mark 12:29-31).   As Paul said, we do not make void the Law, we establish the Law (Rom 3:31); and Christ has NOW "condemned (to destruction) sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit" (Rom 8:3-4).   Amen.

Thereby, the scriptures state we are being saved, we are being sanctified in the present time.  No scripture states that we are made Holy in the future, (hagiazo, to make Holy, is never in the future tense; it is perfect tense or present tense NOW ! ).   Those members of His Heavenly Assembly on earth are called hagios, Holy, in the plural or "holies", which is unfortunately translated "saints".   

As we someday thankfully, shed our stinking flesh natures, we shall continue in Holiness and Righteousness in the Heavenlies.   For this our spirits groan to be so unburdened.   Behold, NOW, NOW, is the day of salvation.  Salvation is not reserved till after we die, it MUST start NOW IN OUR LIVING NOW ...      

Therefore, salvation is being accomplished by actual righteousness through the indwelling faith, mind of Christ, in us NOW, the righteous mind of Christ in us, for justification (right-related "restoration") to the Father, and sanctification (separated, different from the world), walking as a totally New Creation of God to be obedient to His Will.

This is initial and continuous justification and sanctification required till death takes us to Heaven. We are indwelt by Christ's perfect righteousness, to Live obedient to this perfect righteousness, now indwelling us, to our Heavenly Father's Will. Just as He once walked, so are we to walk. 

After our Lord provided all this for us by His Death and Resurrection, he said to His disciples, "Peace be unto you....Peace be unto you, As Father hath sent me, even so send I you" (Jn 20:21).   "I only do My Father's Will" (Jn 6:38). This is not a rehearsal; this is not a delusional dreamer's gratuitous free gift of "grace" guaranteeing Heaven and righteousness in the future; this is real Life to be Lived NOW, or never at all.    "Chose you this day whom you will serve."

Hereby, we are called in scripture, Holy ones or saints, in the ageless Body of His Assembly as living NOW as citizens of Heaven.  And this is the Factual Experienced Spiritual Reality of God and His saints NOW.  We have passed from death to Life, we are no longer sinners in the world, we are His Holy people, purchased with His Loving Death to remove our death to give us His Life anew.  Praise Him All Ye Heavens and saints.  Perfect complete salvation NOW.  This is real Life to be Lived NOW, OR NEVER at all.

Justification (made righteous, right-related) is clearly because of a New Creation of us provided by Christ's Death and resurrection, united with our Lord Jesus Christ in one Spirit (1 Cor 6:17) NOW on earth; and by the fact of our present spiritual unification with Him, we have access by that one Spirit unto the Father (Eph 2:18), a Holy people, a Royal priesthood, by our Lord's Atonement (restoration) for us to this fellowship.  This justification is imparted to us when we are obedient to the gospel command to repent and believe (commit) on (eis, for the purpose or result of) Lord Jesus Christ.

Sanctification (being a separated restored people) is clearly by our obedience to His indwelling Life, His indwelling Mind (faith), directing us and providing all Spiritual needs to us in Christ Jesus in us.   He, indwelling Jesus by our Father, is then "made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption (release from sin and  sinning)" (1 Cor 1:30). 

Jesus with the Father made all this possible for us in His Atonement, in His Death for us (our death put away in His Death) and Resurrection Life (His Life) placed in us. It is HIS LIFE for our DEATH transaction, in actual fact NOW available to every person who wants it.  It is to "whosoever will" through repentance and commitment to our Lord Jesus Christ.  No one will be in hell who does not choose to be there. 

The Holy verbally inerrant Greek scriptures (TR) give us God's written Words. The indwelling Holy Spirit mind of Christ in us (faith) guides us and teaches us all things as we are obedient to Him in our minds, serving Him with all our hearts-the first commandment.  Christ indwelling us, as new creations, is our redemption (restoration), our righteousness, our sanctification, and Wisdom. This is the gospel of our Lord to all men and women. This is His Atoning Justification and Sanctification offered to any who seek Him with all their hearts.  Who will respond?    Sinning now or Eternal Life NOW, your choice.

Brief Summary.  This is so important

We are saved by grace through faith...to good works (Eph 2:8-10).   Faith is the Holy Spirit Mind of Christ indwelling  you, after you repent and commit yourself to Lord Jesus Christ through the obedience hearing of His Word (Rom 3:22, Gal 3:22, Eph 1:13, Acts 5:32)  

Then by your obedience to indwelling faith (Rom 1:5 and 16:26 Rom 8:14 and 16, 2 Cor 13:5, 1 John 3:24, etc), the Holy Spirit, good (agathos, God good) works are produced, as apposed to dead (man) works.  And all men, born-again or not, are impartially judged for salvation for Eternity based upon their deeds, whether dead (kokos) works (no faith) or God-good (agathos) works (through faith, James 2:17).  See Judgment- Good vs evil/sin.

There is no scripture that says our final judgment shall be upon the basis of grace alone.
There is no scripture that says our final judgment shall be upon the basis of faith alone.
There is no scripture that says our final judgment shall be based upon "our" own works.
Only works produced by obedience to the leading of indwelling Holy Spirit Mind of Christ (faith) are good works.    Nothing of man's is "good" and allowable into Heaven.
If all our works are dead works (not by Holy Spirit) we go to hell, unless we die as at moment of renewal by Holy Spirit.

Those who are morally blind and deceived by demons think:
A natural man's believing (knowledge or trust in a Bible promise or anything else) is same as faith
Saved for eternity by grace alone.
Since saved by grace alone, without works, through belief only, our salvation is totally Unconditional.
Saved totally apart from any works which would be opposed to a passive knowledge or trust only.
"Isn't grace alone marvelous," they say, "Total unhindered freedom and guaranteed Heaven."
[[  Very, very sad. ]]





II. Calvinist Reformation (Zapping) Church of Sadis in Revelation says, "No."

Reformers said a forensic (legal) justification makes a person declared just (righteous) by faith alone, through grace alone , and instantaneously at regeneration Zapping, through nothing (no act or thought) of the person themselves.. 

Justification is Imputed (accounted) by Christ's sacrifice for our sins in His death and also Imputation of Christ's righteousness by His Life lived during His ministry. This they call double imputation (see Rom 5:9-11). This is also called, Synthetic justification = an alien righteousness from outside of us, but accounted to us as a legal transaction as in accounting by the grace of God alone. Also, this can be understood only by scriptures alone, they say.

From Martin Luther on, Protestantism (not the Historic Apostolic believers through the ages) has insisted that Justification does not change us internally and is not based on any goodness that we have in ourselves inherently.

They justify this external righteousness by saying, if we are instantaneously declared righteous based on our own personal goodness, then we could have no assurance of forgiven sins, or have peace with God (Rom 5:1), removal of condemnation (Rom 8:1), no assurance of faith (Heb 10:22), no free gift of righteousness (Rom 5:17), or say that "the free gift of God is eternal Life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom 6:23) (Systematic Theology, by Wayne Gruden).
 
Our righteousness is purely accounted (imputed) to us from a righteousness of Christ outside of ourselves, they say. This they call a foreign righteousness, instantaneously ONLY judicially accounted to us .   [[  Note: We ourselves only continue as the same sinners, calling ourselves Christians.  "Isn't His grace wonderful," they say.  Our guaranteed righteousness is laid up in Heaven, hid in Christ now in Heaven, and external to us.]]

But unfortunately, their thinking stops here, and is really perverted even more after this, from here on:
They go on to say that it stays external to us and only takes us to Heaven by a fictional eternal "decree" (Institutes, 3. 21. 5) that it be so.  And that is the end of their explaining justification and sanctification for eternity. 

This fictional "decree" which cannot be found in scripture also makes it ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED, which has never been demonstrated by exegesis from the verbally inspired Greek scriptures by any Calvinist or anyone else. 

Their Atonement, in fact, provides no indwelling righteousness of Christ Himself (His faith) to whom they are to be obedient in living according to His righteousness directing, teaching, guiding us, and assuring us. 

Consequently, the Calvinist teachings become a dead letter keeping of the written scripture instructions and that is all. Another Pharisaical effort of men doing what looks good to them. To live pleasing to God, simply go by this written Word, they say. Just like the Pharisees of Jesus day, according to the dead letter instead of the Living Christ Himself indwelling them, even as in the OT saints.  

[[  This is also the teachings of today's "grace" regardless apostates of Dallas Theological Cemetery since 1920.  They also only hold to the dead letter of the Bible as the Calvinists in explaining how one can be led by the Holy Spirit.  Despite their pious rhetoric, their living of the Spirit filled life by faith is just as dead as the Calvinists from whom they took their teachings (originating from John Darby's Plymouth Brethern invention of Dispensationalism). ]]

According to the Reformed, "Christian theology there are three separate and distinct acts of imputation. In the first place Adam's sin is imputed to all of us, his children, that is, judicially set to our account so that we are held responsible for it and suffer the consequences of it. This is commonly known as the doctrine of Original Sin. In the second place, and in precisely the same manner, our sin is imputed to Christ so that He suffers the consequences of it in a Penal Substitution for us. And in the third place, Christ's own (outside of us) righteousness is imputed to us and secures for us entrance into heaven.

We are, of course, no more personally guilty of Adam's sin than Christ is personally guilty of our sin, or that we are personally meritorious because of His righteousness simply accounted for us. In each case it is a book keeping judicial transaction. We receive a fellowship relationship to God from Christ in precisely the same way that we receive condemnation and ruin from Adam. In each case the result follows because of the close official union which exists between the persons involved. To reject any one of these three steps is to reject an essential part of the Christian system" (The Reformed Faith by Loraine Boettner).

To simply repeat for clear understanding of what the Reformation Calvinist teachings are for Atonement to make us righteous and prepared for Heaven:

The Calvinists teach that justification is nothing more than a judicial accounting (imputed) according to the transfer of all our sins upon Jesus for some imagined (not found in scriptures) punishment on the cross.  So then God placed all His wrath for our sin and sins upon Jesus in His penal substitution for punishment, so that our sins (past, present, and future) and sin nature are judicially accounted (imputed) as remitted, not removed in functioning fact or replaced with an indwelling Righteous Life of Christ HImself. 

Jesus suffering God's wrath (punishment) for all our sins, simply provides for the so-called Christian to now continue in sin but still expect a Holy God to take them to Heaven.  We are then accounted judicially (imputed) another's righteousness, alien to us (outside ourselves), the righteousness of Christ by His merit alone demonstrated in His Perfect living on earth ONLY.    These are all a bookkeeping, accounting, by God made possible by Christ's taking our sins to himself and suffering punishment for them.   And Christ's righteousness is likewise accounted as in letter written bookkeeping to us thereafter also, and kept in Heaven in Himself.   Isn't grace wonderful, they say.

This work of Atonement by Christ for us is given to all who repent and believe for salvation.  They consider a man's believing (trust) and saving faith as synonyms in fact.  And that this repenting and believing or trust (they think, "faith") is given by an instantaneous transformation to only certain chosen people, the Elect, for only these certain few are whom Christ endured such a penal punishment, foreknown and fore-planned (ordained) before the foundation of the world.  

Again, they regard trust and faith as synonyms.   No scriptures teach any of this, except their forced assertions against plain words.   Repentance is hardly and passingly mentioned, and likewise emasculated of all importance, because of the inscrutible instantaneous Zapping of Election bringing all these "things" to the individual instantaneously without his comprehension or understanding in the least, except as explained by these profound doctors of such invented philosophy.

They then teach that all salvation by Christ's Atonement to man is only through this "faith" (trust)  instantaneously instilled in a man's being without any effort, motion, reason, or understanding of the individual himself.   He is just inscrutibly Zapped by God, to be ultimately taken to Heaven regardless of his beliefs or behaviors.  

They further define this saving faith by which we stand justified as noted by three manifestations in the person:  First, he is given mental affirmation to all of Christ's teachings and dying for him as factual content and true;  second,  he gives mental assent that Christ freely died for his sins; and most importantly, the Calvinist says, third, he places his absolute and total "trust" in Christ alone for his salvation in Heaven.  They teach that this trust of a man and saving faith are synonyms. (R.C. Sproul, The Doctrines of the Reformation.)  

Consequently, the understanding of HOW the person is saved by God and WHY the person is saved by God appears totally lost to both the Calvinists and also to the apostate "grace" regardless, Dispensationalists, today.  Calvinists' teachings about WHO, WHAT, WHEN, and WHERE deceptively sound all very scriputral but their explanations (doctrines) of HOW and WHY are totally irrational heretical unscriptural and morally irrational absurdities.

Fortunately, yet today, the outward Calvinist preaching is that the sinner must repent and believe (commit) to the Lordship of Christ and live a Holy life at the end to go to Heaven.  This the "grace" regardless refuse to preach in actual fact; they deny that repentance, Lordship, and any moral living or any commitment of any kind is necessary for salvation.

Because of the facts of the last paragraph, we have long hesitated to say that the Calvinists are apostate, because of their "rare" (almost nonexistent today) preaching to sinners for salvation by repenting and committing to Christ's Lordship, as well as their teaching verbal inerrancy and preservation of scripture, separation from evil in doctrine and morals, and necessary continuance in a Holy Life to death. 

Indeed, many of the Calvinists are at the forefront of Protestantism in resisting the Ecumenical and Dispensatiional "grace" regardless apostasy today.  These may be used of God to save souls in this day of apostasy, even as in the days of Jonathan Edwards or George Whitefield or Spurgeon.

Calvinists were and are truly very wrong (very heretical) in their historic practices and explanations of their TULIP doctrines, but their statements of necessary beliefs for salvation "sound" correct and agree with Arminian salvation statements,  They are simply repenting and believing (committing) to (eis) the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved through obedience of faith. 

However, Calvinists redefine all these words to mean something very different.  All of these fine sounding teachings are redefined in their own minds and teachings, regardless of how right they sound.  Simply being so redefined in fact as to possibly prevent salvation makes them apostate, regardless of all other considerations.

The new-birth occurs because the Holy Spirit convicts of sin, righteousness, and judgment to whomever is considering Truth in their own thinking, despite the deceitfulness or falsity of any preacher.  By this, sinners may be truly new-born listening to totally cult or apostate teachers.  Not by understanding what the teachers deceitfully believe, but by hearing the Holy Spirit utilize their hearts to His truth.

[[  Today, in this age of teachers to itching ears and apostasy on every corner, one cannot naively listen to a teacher or preacher and take their words as those of straightforward ⁶ meaning as in the Bible.  One must learn how the preacher defines or redefines these common words.  Otherwise, one can have no idea of what he is saying.  This is why people today listening to so-called "expository" preachers cannot possible know what they are saying.  Why are there no "exegetical" preachers today?  See footnote.⁷   ]]

The Truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, intended to fully and completely restore every human being to righteousness and fellowship with the Father during their lives here on earth, will not in any way possibly prevent salvation.  

Any meaning given, whether before or after new-birth, that could possibly prevent a person's salvation is apostasy.    Plain and simple.     It is a departure from the pure and perfect gospel taught by Christ and His Apostles in the scriptures..

"Apostasy is a defection from the Truth of the person and work of Jesus Christ.  Christ and His work are so wrought into the faith that change cannot be tolerated.  Tolerance could only give another Jesus"  (Gospel under Seige, by Malcolm Lavender, see Recommended Links, The Call to Reform.) 

This tolerance of the pagan-like Calvinist Atonement work has now been used to redefine Jesus in these last days, first by the apostate Calvinists, and now by the cult "grace" regardless who deny commitment to Christ's Lordship as necessary for salvation.  This denial of Christ's Lordship in salvation is accomplished by the worldwide "grace" regardless cult teachings today, made popular by non-Calvinist but Dispensational Dallas Theological Seminary since 1920 to date.

Calvinism's WHO, WHAT, WHEN, and WHERE of salvation is totally redefined by their HOW and WHYs of their TULIP doctrines.  If they ever rarely preach as to sinners for salvation today, it may be no different than that prescribed in the scriptures, in sound.  But they have redefined every historic Biblical word they use.  

Their teachings as to the HOW and WHY explanations of God in salvation are totally irrational (deductive reasoning) and totally demeaning to God's great Attributes, indeed, very heretical, and to be avoided.  These are leaven teachings used by darkness to leaven the whole lump in these apostate days.  Now, with the "grace" regardless Dispensational cult, instead of Jesus being Lord, He saves only by being a Savior; they now totally deny His Lordship in salvation.  That makes them a cult.

Unfortunately, the powers of darkness have adopted these grave deficiencies of the primitive Calvinist HOW and WHY explanations, who give:
(1) no Atonement means of personal Holiness,
(2) the unscriptural assertion of "once saved always saved" salvation, 
(3) a confusion of believing and faith in salvation and Living,
(4) a one time involuntary change of a person's mind and desires for eternal immutable salvation,
(5) no personal efforts avail for perseverance, only God's inscrutible immutable changing of the person's sensibilities for eternity, 
(6) a most important denial of personal responsibility to Jesus Christ as Lord because of the involuntary nature of salvation in all aspects of Calvinism, 
(7) most importantly a denial of the working and office of the Holy Spirit in salvation to everyone in the world, as well as in each individual's responsible fellowship of Life in Christ for daily guidance, gifting, teaching, assurance, and empowering, and 
(8) focused in the dead written word, rather than in the Living Word indwelling them from which true obedience derives through the indwelling Holy Spirit leading them, assuring them, gifting, teaching, and empowering.

"As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (Rom 8:14)

"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God" (Rom 8:16)

These demonic "grace" regardless apostates today have just taken the Calvinist heresies to darkest absurdity.  We now have throughout Christendom saved "carnal sinning Christians" who need have no moral differences from others in the world, but are inscrutibly destined for Heaven.  This establishes the present last days of worldwide apostasy cult with the amoral "grace" regardless doctrines.  Isn't "grace" wonderful, they say. These deny the Lordship of Christ as the only mediator for salvation, making them a modern cult in the Laodicean church.

"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron" (1 Tim 4:1-2).

In Revelation, third chapter, neither the church of Sardis (probably Reformation Calvinist church in sequence of history), nor the Laodicean church receive any commendation from our Lord.  All the others do receive commendation.  Interesting.    

And the church of Philadelphia between the Sardis and Laodicean church, in their history sequence, receives commendations for the necessity of Holy living (no "carnal Christian", or OnceSavedAlwaysSaved-regardless, teachings) and "thou has kept the Word of My endurance".

Christ promised taking those who persevere in this church "from out of" the time of trial (Rev 3:10) that is coming.     Interesting.  The last four named churches in order of origination are given a different ending that the previous three.  Perhaps this denotes a different end of age status of existence.  Perhaps the first three letters are to now nonexistent historical churches.

In our own lifetime, we have never heard a Calvinist preaching to sinners for salvation.  Have you?  Today, they are occupied in proudly smelling their own robed arm pits and eruditely explaining the philosophy of their "esteemed historical" philosophy of religion and (totally irrational) moral logic.

Their noble esteemed doctrines must be agonizingly justified to the common people, who have little chance of understanding or being Zapped anyway, in their thinking.  But Calvinists get violent when accused of being "elitists".    Not to mention them being total Pharisees as the Dispensationalists, teaching to follow the dead letter ink written Word, instead of the Living Word indwelling them, the Holy Spirit Mind of Christ, our indwelling Righteousness Himself, Who gifts, teaches, guides, empowers, and assures us.   Both the Calvinists and the Dispensational "grace" regardless deny all of this.

Since the Atonement (restoration) was incompletely formulated from the scriptures by Luther and more by Calvin (1534) from Catholic Augustine (414) and later by a Catholic Mond, Anselm (1097 A.D.), regarding the penal satisfaction theory of Atonement, we have thereby been given a primitive and totally errant and blasphemous understanding of the Atonement.

According to the Calvinists, Justification (righteousness) and Sanctification (separation) before God is purely a judicial accounting, bookkeeping act of God.  Nothing more.   And instantaneous instilled "faith" is nothing more than man's own trust.    No sure intrinsic righteousness of God is theirs nor may be experienced by them this side of Heaven, is their actual Atonement teaching.  Consequently, their only instruction in Holy Living is to follow the dead letter of Holy scripture, like the Pharisees in Jesus day.

They even call it a "foreign" and "synthetic" righteousness, outside themselves.   We, personally, must be inscrutibly decreed, destined by God and be in Heaven, before we shall experience any right-relation to our Heavenly Father, righteousness, gained only by His Immutable decree for only a few Elect, they say.  This is purely fatalistic Soteriology.  And actually, no real scriptural understanding of Atonement or "faith" or its HOW or WHY in our lives or the scriptures.  They call faith a man's "trust".  All is totally unscriptural; not supported by the scriptures in any manner.  It is all the doctrines of men, as the Pharisees of Christ's day.

The true Calvinist, unfortunately, accepts substitution penal atonement as a fact both in profession and practice.  Therefore, such a "believer" thinks he is secure eternally while in sin, he may professes and practice.

Penal atonement is a legal system concept and cannot produce higher than itself.  It cannot produce a changed heart to walk in Holiness with His Lord.  However, a professed Calvinist may think and do otherwise than live strictly to his Atonement teachings but in His personal actual born-again-Holy living obedient to His indwelling Lord and end his life in Heaven.  But the true Calvinist who accepts the stated implications of penal atonement, as a fact in thought and practice, is a practicing "sinning 'c'hristian," thus lost eternally.

This is why the historic Anabaptists from the time of Christ, persecuted by the Catholic church for centuries, could not join with Calvin and Luther in their teachings concerning justification at the time.  They agreed that by grace alone, through faith alone, through Christ alone, was the means of our new birth standing with God in His fellowship/relationship, but stated that more was involved than just a judicial (paper accounting), once for all time, accounting act by God, with no means provided for obedience to God's indwelling righteousness of Christ's Mind Himself placed within our born-from-above spirits as new creations, in which we are to remain obedient to our Heavenly Father.  The Anabaptists believed that the saving faith of God was being demeaned without any real human responsibility of choice and obedience as taught in all scriptures

The Calvinist claim that they do teach a Spiritual transformation of man in his inscutible Zapping, but their obedience teachings are to only the written Word for their efforts at Holy living, and their Atonement teachings deny any means of such righteous living or even understanding of the written Word by a regenerated man. 

Their living is reduced, in fact, to a scholastic Pharisiacal dead letter (John 5:39-40).  Despite their irrational deductive assertions with subject switching and circumlocutions of allegorical explanations, their How and WHY of the Atonement and of any saints living a life pleasing to God falls flat on its gorgoyle face.

Despite all such deductive efforts to justify their assertions, "No Calvinist has ever affirmed any of the Five Points (of Calvinism) from the Greek New Testament".... (despite all their guerrilla dust and violent chest pounding, subject switching, and denials of plain scripture)......"The problem of Calvinists is not of scholarship, but a wrong view of God, which is reflected in a wrong theology about Him" (quotes from The Potter's Freedom to Love the World, pages 27-31; 184-188.). 

The Sovereignty of God is their only doctrinal understanding, and all their TULIP reasonings center on that "one" Attribute only, which is also that of any pagan's meager understanding of his god.  

These historic Anabaptist groups from the time of Christ, because of their refusal to follow these Reformers, were then persecuted, imprisoned, tortured, slaughtered, and burned at the stake by the Lutherans and Calvinists for many years after, even in England in 1500-1700's.  

This is why the earliest Pilgrims (1620 and before, being called Puritans, English Calvinist dissenters) to this country were persecuted Anabaptist (Puritan) groups trying to escape the persecutions, until the Calvinists finally later came about 75 years later, and then again began persecutions throughout the early colonies.  

Christ told his true followers that the world would hate them (Jn 15:18-19: 1 Jn 3:13) and be unable to even hear them (Luke 10:16).  This has been true through the ages.

Plainly, the Reformers did not have an explanation for actual indwelling, imparted righteousness, given to any person that would come to Him in repentance and committal to His Lordship forever, only assertions. 

The Reformer's salvation doctrines do no allow any place for the ability of Christ to NOW dwell in this new creation (2 Cor 5:17, and 2 Cor 6:16), nor how by His indwelling we are made the actual righteousness of God Himself, being united within our Lord and He in us (2 Cor 5:21), nor did they have any means in their salvation doctrines of ever acting righteously according to the Living directions of the mind of Christ (faith) indwelling us, living in obedience to our new Lord Jesus Christ.

These Anabaptists clearly could see their doctrinal deficiencies more than most all people today, who just scratch their heads and continue playing pin the tail on the so-called pastor. 

Few study the Bible for themselves as the noble Bereans "received the Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so" (Acts 17:11).  Today, they hardly hear the Word and begrudingly will search a Commentary or Dictionary, but seldom "search the scriptures" comparing spiritual to spiritual to inductively discern what the scriptures themselves say.   

In fact, the Atonement justification teachings of the Calvinist enclose ancient Gnostic teachings that man's salvation depends upon understanding that the human body and flesh nature is evil always in all things and continually sinning, but his spirit (the good part) will progress to Eternal unification with God. 

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