Paul's Passing Thoughts

He saw something. But all those reading forward must promise to read all of this post before you click on the link at the end of this post to see what he saw.

I have been getting emails from NCT guys in response to my latest posts. Because I believe words mean things, I’m “uneducated,” “clueless,” “unregenerate,” a “moron,” to name a few.

Because NCT guys wear you out with the same nonsense over and over again, I have learned to pick out the highlights of their falsehoods. That’s aside from them claiming to advocate Gospel Sanctification while denying they are New Calvinists.  Right.

Here’s a comment by one of them In defense of John Piper: “There is a huge difference between saying sanctification is ‘necessary’ and saying it forms any part of the basis of our right standing before God”  Then why is sanctification “necessary”? Synonyms for “necessary” are essential, required, needed, compulsory, obligatory, indispensable, basic. The guy is paid millions to communicate, why would he have not said, “resulting in sanctification” instead?  Answer: Piper, like all good Adventists, believes that sanctification completes justification.

Another statement: “This verse teaches clearly that it is the same grace that justifies us that sanctifies us.” Then sanctification is also monergistic. It’s not rocket science. That’s what Piper means by “Christ 100% for us.” Right, if sanctification is monergistic, obviously, Christ has to do it all for us. But here is where New Calvinists haven’t completely thought this through; if sanctification completes justification, then what we do in sanctification factors in whether it is doing something or nothing. The goal now is to find some formula that doesn’t “make sanctification the grounds of our justification.” Massive confusion and complicated formulas ensue.

This statement is also telling: “The believer’s union with Christ assures both our judicial fitness for heaven, righteousness, and our moral fitness for heaven, holiness.” Again, you see the necessity for a doctrine that prepares us for some kind of future judgment concerning “fitness for heaven.” In some way, we must be kept righteous. Not so, we have already been declared righteous and the full righteousness of God has been credited to our account. It’s a done deal. Because NCT holds to a fusion of justification and sanctification, with sanctification linking the two together with glorification, we need to (supposedly) be KEPT in a righteous standing during the sanctification process.

What did the New Covenant guy see?

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