-Do we agree that the sins of the world were put on Christ?
-Do we agree that Christ was buried and rose on the third day?
-Do we agree that when He arose He had no one's sins on Him?
Then the only logical conclusion is, sins are no longer the issue for salvation. -Belief in the gospel is.
God cannot RE-impute sins that Christ bore in His body.
God cannot RE-impute sins that Christ took to the tomb.
God cannot RE-impute sins that Christ did not resurrect with.
If God is going to judge us for our sins, He will have to 1. Retrieve them. 2. Put them back on us. (Can someone say illogical?)
The gospel is not Christ died for our sins IF. The gospel is Christ died for our sins.
The gospel is not Christ was buried IF. The gospel is Christ was buried.
The gospel is not Christ rose from the tomb IF. The gospel is Christ rose from the tomb.
These are declarative statements that need no ones belief to make them so. There's no conditional IF on what has already occurred.
No one claims that the resurrection needs your belief to make it true, so why do they claim your forgiveness needs your belief to make it true?
We are not saved because our sins were forgiven. We are saved "through faith" in Christ and His finished work.
Salvation requires our belief but forgiveness had nothing to do with us. It required Christ and His shed blood on a cross.
We are right to tell someone they are saved IF. But we are wrong to tell them they are forgiven IF.
It's like a listener once told me after she heard a "Limited Forgiver" say that you have to first believe before getting forgiven; She said "Trey, if I wanted to hear how to get my sins forgiven I'd go back to the Baptist church."
You see, they're coming to us to hear the gospel of grace, but it's not grace to tell them they have to do something. That perverts and destroys grace by making forgiveness conditional.
You who belong to the "Limited Forgiveness" club should really
give this some thought.
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