Paul's Passing Thoughts

There is NO law in justification. Justification is finished and is completely apart from the law. It is impossible for the Christian to sin against justification because there is no law to judge him, and the old man born under the law died with Christ and is free from the law. Calvin believed that our justification is maintained by a perfect keeping of the law. Hence, the need for the continued salvific works of Christ in sanctification. But no law needs to be kept in order to maintain our justification and our true righteous standing. Law-keeping by anyone, including Christ, is NOT part of the atonement. We are truly righteous now because the seed of God is within us and the law provokes us to righteousness instead of provoking us to sin. The fact that we don’t keep the law perfectly is neither here nor there in regard to justification and only effects our intimacy with the Father which is a family matter and not a justification matter. The weakness of our flesh that causes us to sin and wages war against us is the spouse who died, so we are no longer judged by that covenant, which is the law. See Romans 7. Calvin preached a justification that HAS TO BE MAINTAINED by a perfect keeping of the law by Christ and imputed to our sanctification by faith alone. It’s a false gospel.