My dear friend Sam Pollard has left a comment on my post commenting on Edwards on imputation. It, as I was expect from Sam, is well thought through, deep, meaningful, theological and it taught me something.
Go and read our exchange.
It’s a shame he’s an Anglican.
When researching for my dissertation, I turned to Edwards to read what he had to say on imputation. According to the study of Pauline theology I did in my degree last year, there seemed to be some debate as to whether or not Edwards actually held the imputation of righteousness as the ground of justification. […]
[B]y that righteousness being imputed to us, is meant no other this, that the righteousness of Christ is accepted for us, and admitted instead of that perfect inherent righteousness which ought to be in ourselves. Christ’s perfect obedience shall be reckoned to our account, so that we shall have the benefit of it, as though […]
1. And here observe, That whatever in Christ had the nature of satisifaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of the obedience or righteousness there was in it. The satisfaction of Christ consists in his answering the demands of […]
Yea, if once it should be allowed, that things may come to pass without a Cause, we should not only have no proof of the Being of God, but we should be without evidence of the existence of any thing whatsoever, but our own immediately present ideas and consciousness. For we have no way to […]
If you haven’t noticed or been pointed to it yet, the Pulpit Blog has been running a series on the issues/controversy of so-called “Lordship Salvation” - although to be frank it’s only a controversy because some people seem to find it grossly distasteful and so reject the last couple of thousand years of Christian soteriological […]
The plain and obvious meaning of the words Freedom and Liberty, in common speech, is The power, opportunity, or advantage, that any one has, to do as he pleases. Or in other words, his being free from hinderance or impediment in the ways of doing, or conducting in any respect, as he wills.
What has been […]
…[I]t must be true, in some sense, that the Will always is, as the greatest apparent good is.
There is scarcely a plainer and more universal dictate of the sense and experience of mankind, than that, when men act voluntarily, and do what they please, then they do what suits them best, or what is most […]