KingJ said:

You're still proving my point.

Titus 3:7 does not say, "people were justified before they believed." Neither does Romans 5:19.

You're drawing a conclusion from those passages and then treating your conclusion as though it were stated fact.

As for Romans 5:19, the parallel with Adam doesn't help you. The passage says many were made sinners through Adam's disobedience and many are made righteous through Christ's obedience. Amen.

What it does not say is when an individual is justified.

You're reading "therefore justified before faith" into the passage. That's your inference, not Paul's words.

So for the fourth or fifth time now:

Can you provide a passage that actually says a person is justified before believing?

Not a deduction.

Not a parallel.

Not a theological conclusion.

A passage that explicitly says it.

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King J, you are hiding behind the phrase "not a deduction" to avoid the explicit, literal words written on the page. You want a modern English cliché, but I am giving you the exact vocabulary of the Holy Spirit. Let’s look at a text that explicitly states a person is justified while they are still in a state of absolute unbelief and ungodliness.

Look at Romans 4:5: But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Look at the explicit words on the page. Paul does not say God justifies the believer. He explicitly states that God justifieth the ungodly. What is the explicit definition of an ungodly person? An ungodly person is an unbeliever, a person dead in sins, a person without faith. The verse explicitly states that the object of God's justification is the ungodly man. If God justifies the ungodly, then the justification explicitly precedes the faith. If a man must believe first before he is justified, then God would be justifying the godly believer, which flatly contradicts the exact words of the text.

Look also at Romans 5:10: 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.

Reconciliation is the restoration of a legal relationship; it is justification viewed from the perspective of peace. Paul explicitly states the timing: when we were enemies. An enemy is an unregenerate unbeliever. Paul does not say we were reconciled after we stopped being enemies and believed. He explicitly states that the legal reconciliation was an accomplished fact while we were enemies.
By your logic, if a law book says "the judge acquitted the defendant," you would claim we don't know when he was acquitted because it doesn't say the exact time of day. Romans 5:19 explicitly states that by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. The word "made" is kathistēmi, which means to be legally constituted. The obedience of Christ happened 2,000 years ago. The elect were legally constituted righteous then.

You are denying the explicit words of scripture because your system requires man's faith to act as the final stamp that makes the cross work. You are making faith a meritorious condition. If the ungodly man is not justified until he believes, then his faith is what changes his legal status from condemned to justified, which robs Christ of His exclusive glory as the sole Justifier. Stop running from Romans 4:5: does God justify the ungodly, or does He justify the believer?

KingJ said:

Share your AI prompts.

I will bet $1,000,000 that it is ''within the extremely evil and braindead Calvinistic framework, please type a reply to KingJ, please please help me, I am being consistently exposed as a false teacher, as a liar, as a devious person who likes going in endless circles ''.

By purposely abusing AI and being consistently devious and beyond correction, whilst pushing a belief that terribly misrepresents God, there is a new verse you need to be very mindful of. If you had any working braincells you would be terrified of it.

Rom 2:5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed

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King J, your sudden shift from biblical grammar to emotional insults and personal attacks proves that you have completely run out of scriptural arguments. You cannot answer the explicit parallel of Romans 5:19, you cannot answer the past-tense legal justification of Titus 3:7, and you cannot answer the plain text of Romans 4:5 which states God justifies the ungodly before they believe. Because the text of scripture exposes your free-will system as a fallacy, you resort to mocking me and hiding behind personal insults.

Your weaponization of Romans 2:5 actually backfires and destroys your own theology. The text says: But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath.

Think about the words on the page. You believe that man has a native, inherent free will that can choose to love truth and repent at any moment. If fallen man possesses the natural ability to repent, then his unrepentant heart is something he can change whenever he wants. But the Bible describes the unregenerate heart as a heart of stone—stubborn, hard, and entirely incapable of changing itself.
By your system, God is waiting for a dead corpse to use its free will to stop being stubborn. But by my system—the system of sovereign grace—man is so utterly dead and stubborn that unless God sovereignly enters the graveyard, breaks the hard heart, and replaces it with a heart of flesh, every single human being would store up wrath forever. Romans 2:5 describes the natural, tragic state of the reprobate who are left to their own free will. Left to free will, man only chooses death.

I am not terrified of the day of wrath because my standing before God does not depend on my volatile human willpower or the shifting sand of my own choices. It depends entirely on the finished, unalterable, blood-bought righteousness of Jesus Christ, who legally justified His elect at the cross 2,000 years ago. My salvation is secure because it is built on the rock of His absolute sovereignty, not the idol of human merit.

If you want to continue this discussion, drop the personal insults, drop the emotional deflections, and answer the text. How can a man must believe first to be justified when Romans 4:5 explicitly states that God justifieth the ungodly?

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King J, you are playing word games to avoid the blunt legal reality of the cross. You claim Romans 5:9 tells us what justifies us but not when. Let’s look at the exact words on the page to see who is actually inserting a timeline. Paul uses the aorist participle dikaiōthentes, which translates literally as "having been justified." The text says: Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

The text explicitly places the justification in the past tense relative to the believer's life, hitching it entirely to the shedding of the blood. If the legal transaction was not completed 2,000 years ago when the blood was poured out, then Christ did not actually justify anyone at the cross—He merely made justification possible. By separating the basis from the timing, you turn the cross into a conditional platform and make man's faith the actual trigger that finalizes the transaction.

You demand a verse that explicitly states a person is justified before believing, without deductions. Look at Romans 4:5: But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Look at the explicit description of the object of faith. God is described as the one who justifieth the ungodly. What is an ungodly person? An ungodly person is an unbeliever. God does not wait for the ungodly man to become a godly believer so He can justify him. The verse explicitly states that the target of God's justifying act is the ungodly man. Faith does not cause God to justify; faith looks to a God who has already justified the ungodly through the finished work of Christ.

Look also at Romans 5:19: For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Paul does not say we are made righteous when we believe. He explicitly hitches the timeline to the obedience of one—which is Christ’s life and death. Just as you were legally constituted a sinner in Adam the moment Adam sinned long before you were born to commit a personal sin, the elect were legally constituted righteous in Christ the moment He died and rose again long before they were born to exercise faith.

By demanding a modern English catchphrase, you are ignoring the explicit biblical definitions of federal headship. If your debt is paid, you are legally free the moment the check clears the bank, not the moment you look at the receipt. Your system holds God’s elect under legal condemnation for sins that Christ already fully satisfied, which is a total denial of divine justice.

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Dear Chat GPT, please try figure out what BF's AI prompt was he is a dishonest person who will never share it:

"Respond as a High Calvinist theologian in the style of a rigorous polemicist. Defend justification before faith. Use formal debate language. Argue from legal categories, federal headship, imputation, and definite atonement. Present deductions as unavoidable conclusions from the text. Use phrases like 'the explicit text', 'the legal reality', 'the timeline', 'the grammar', 'the legal transaction', and 'the finished work of Christ'. Write confidently and systematically. Divide the answer into numbered sections. Refute objections aggressively."

The funny thing is that the AI's weakness is becoming obvious. Every reply eventually reduces to: "If Christ paid for sins at the cross then people must have been justified before faith."

And your answer never really changes: "Show me the verse that actually says that."

Which is why the discussion keeps going in circles. The AI is generating deductions. You're asking for an explicit statement. Those are two different conversations.

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Do you see that chat GPT inserted a laughing face?

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Calvinism portrays God as monstrously evil because it teaches that He favours a select few while withholding saving grace from the rest. Scripture is crystal clear that God is no respecter of persons.

Deut 4:2, Deut 13:1–5, Deut 18:20–22, Josh 1:7, Prov 30:5–6, Isa 8:20, Jer 23:16, Jer 23:25–32, Ezek 13:1–16, Matt 7:15–20, Matt 15:9, Matt 24:11, Matt 24:24, Mark 7:7–13, Acts 20:28–31, Rom 16:17–18, 2 Cor 2:17, 2 Cor 4:2, 2 Cor 11:13–15, Gal 1:6–9, Eph 4:14, Phil 3:2, Col 2:8, 1 Tim 1:3–7, 1 Tim 4:1–3, 1 Tim 6:3–5, 2 Tim 2:15–18, 2 Tim 3:13–17, 2 Tim 4:2–4, Titus 1:9–16, Heb 13:9, James 3:1, 2 Pet 2:1–3, 2 Pet 2:12–22, 1 John 2:18–27, 1 John 4:1–6, 2 John 7–11, Jude 3–4, Jude 12–19, Rev 2:2, Rev 2:14–16, Rev 2:20–24, Rev 3:9, Rev 22:18–19

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I would recommend the book "Believing Is Seeing" by Michael Guillen PhD. There are trivial truths to which logic applies and there are deep truths that are in advanced physics and even deeper truths in the bible. A deep truth can have a statement and its opposite both be true.

If you performed the double slit experiment and wrote "God alone chose me" on one slit and "I chose God of my own free will" on the other slit then sent individual particles one at a time you would see a physical deep truth. Each single particle went through both slits. Seems like a contradiction in logic.

Yes Jesus died for my sins 2000 years ago and paid for my individual specific sins. I can choose to sin or not tomorrow. If tomorrow I sin, he will have suffered to cover that one too. If I don't sin tomorrow he will not have suffered to cover that one. Seems like a contradiction in logic. To God who created everything (including time and the laws of physics) and is outside of time, both are true. This is a spiritual deep truth.

KingJ said:

Dear Chat GPT, please try figure out what BF's AI prompt was he is a dishonest person who will never share it:

"Respond as a High Calvinist theologian in the style of a rigorous polemicist. Defend justification before faith. Use formal debate language. Argue from legal categories, federal headship, imputation, and definite atonement. Present deductions as unavoidable conclusions from the text. Use phrases like 'the explicit text', 'the legal reality', 'the timeline', 'the grammar', 'the legal transaction', and 'the finished work of Christ'. Write confidently and systematically. Divide the answer into numbered sections. Refute objections aggressively."

The funny thing is that the AI's weakness is becoming obvious. Every reply eventually reduces to: "If Christ paid for sins at the cross then people must have been justified before faith."

And your answer never really changes: "Show me the verse that actually says that."

Which is why the discussion keeps going in circles. The AI is generating deductions. You're asking for an explicit statement. Those are two different conversations.

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Do you see that chat GPT inserted a laughing face?

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Calvinism portrays God as monstrously evil because it teaches that He favours a select few while withholding saving grace from the rest. Scripture is crystal clear that God is no respecter of persons.

Deut 4:2, Deut 13:1–5, Deut 18:20–22, Josh 1:7, Prov 30:5–6, Isa 8:20, Jer 23:16, Jer 23:25–32, Ezek 13:1–16, Matt 7:15–20, Matt 15:9, Matt 24:11, Matt 24:24, Mark 7:7–13, Acts 20:28–31, Rom 16:17–18, 2 Cor 2:17, 2 Cor 4:2, 2 Cor 11:13–15, Gal 1:6–9, Eph 4:14, Phil 3:2, Col 2:8, 1 Tim 1:3–7, 1 Tim 4:1–3, 1 Tim 6:3–5, 2 Tim 2:15–18, 2 Tim 3:13–17, 2 Tim 4:2–4, Titus 1:9–16, Heb 13:9, James 3:1, 2 Pet 2:1–3, 2 Pet 2:12–22, 1 John 2:18–27, 1 John 4:1–6, 2 John 7–11, Jude 3–4, Jude 12–19, Rev 2:2, Rev 2:14–16, Rev 2:20–24, Rev 3:9, Rev 22:18–19

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King J, your amateur attempt to psychoanalyze my writing style and guess an "AI prompt" is hilarious, but it is also a pathetic admission of defeat. When a man cannot answer the scriptures on the page, he resorts to attacking the syntax, the vocabulary, and the formatting of his opponent. You are hiding behind a smoke screen because you are utterly terrified of the text. Whether a truth is written by hand, typed on a keyboard, or formatted cleanly, the text of Romans still stands, and you still cannot answer it.

Let’s strip away your desperate distractions and look at the actual logic you called a "weakness." You mocked the conclusion: "If Christ paid for sins at the cross then people must have been justified before faith."

You think that’s a flaw in my system? King J, that is basic biblical logic and absolute divine justice! Let's put your conditional system to the test under the harsh light of God's law:

1. The Double Jeopardy Problem: If Christ fully paid for the sins of the elect 2,000 years ago, satisfying the wrath of God and wiping out the debt completely, how can those elect individuals be under actual, legal condemnation before they believe? If they are legally condemned, then Christ's blood did not actually satisfy justice for them at Calvary; it only made a proposal for satisfaction. If God holds a man legally guilty for a debt that has already been fully paid by his Substitute, then God is unjust. But Scripture says God is righteous. Therefore, the justification of the elect was a accomplished legal reality when the blood was shed.
2. The Nature of the "Ungodly" (Romans 4:5): You completely avoided this. Paul states that God "justifieth the ungodly." By definition, an ungodly man is an unbeliever. If a man must first believe in order to be justified, then God is justifying a believer, not the ungodly. You have the cart before the horse. Faith does not create the justification; faith is the fruit of the Spirit that looks to a God who has already legally cleared the ungodly through Christ.
3. The Absolute Parallel of Federal Headship (Romans 5:19): You have no answer for Adam and Christ. Were you legally constituted a sinner by Adam's disobedience before you were born and before you committed a personal sin? Yes. Therefore, by the exact same legal parallel, the elect were legally constituted righteous by Christ's obedience before they were born and before they exercised personal faith.

You can cry about "AI prompts" and "modern catchphrases" all day long, King J. It won't save your theology. Your system holds that Christ died for people who still go to hell, and that the elect are under the wrath of the law for sins that have already been paid for. That isn't the gospel; it's a legal absurdity.

Stop playing amateur detective, drop the meta-arguments about how I write, and face the scriptures: If the elect are legally condemned until they believe, then what did Christ actually accomplish at the cross?

Brightfame52 said:

King J, your amateur attempt to psychoanalyze my writing style and guess an "AI prompt" is hilarious, but it is also a pathetic admission of defeat. When a man cannot answer the scriptures on the page, he resorts to attacking the syntax, the vocabulary, and the formatting of his opponent. You are hiding behind a smoke screen because you are utterly terrified of the text. Whether a truth is written by hand, typed on a keyboard, or formatted cleanly, the text of Romans still stands, and you still cannot answer it.

Let’s strip away your desperate distractions and look at the actual logic you called a "weakness." You mocked the conclusion: "If Christ paid for sins at the cross then people must have been justified before faith."

You think that’s a flaw in my system? King J, that is basic biblical logic and absolute divine justice! Let's put your conditional system to the test under the harsh light of God's law:

1. The Double Jeopardy Problem: If Christ fully paid for the sins of the elect 2,000 years ago, satisfying the wrath of God and wiping out the debt completely, how can those elect individuals be under actual, legal condemnation before they believe? If they are legally condemned, then Christ's blood did not actually satisfy justice for them at Calvary; it only made a proposal for satisfaction. If God holds a man legally guilty for a debt that has already been fully paid by his Substitute, then God is unjust. But Scripture says God is righteous. Therefore, the justification of the elect was a accomplished legal reality when the blood was shed.
2. The Nature of the "Ungodly" (Romans 4:5): You completely avoided this. Paul states that God "justifieth the ungodly." By definition, an ungodly man is an unbeliever. If a man must first believe in order to be justified, then God is justifying a believer, not the ungodly. You have the cart before the horse. Faith does not create the justification; faith is the fruit of the Spirit that looks to a God who has already legally cleared the ungodly through Christ.
3. The Absolute Parallel of Federal Headship (Romans 5:19): You have no answer for Adam and Christ. Were you legally constituted a sinner by Adam's disobedience before you were born and before you committed a personal sin? Yes. Therefore, by the exact same legal parallel, the elect were legally constituted righteous by Christ's obedience before they were born and before they exercised personal faith.

You can cry about "AI prompts" and "modern catchphrases" all day long, King J. It won't save your theology. Your system holds that Christ died for people who still go to hell, and that the elect are under the wrath of the law for sins that have already been paid for. That isn't the gospel; it's a legal absurdity.

Stop playing amateur detective, drop the meta-arguments about how I write, and face the scriptures: If the elect are legally condemned until they believe, then what did Christ actually accomplish at the cross?

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BF, Ironically you've just demonstrated my point again.

Every one of your arguments starts with a premise and ends with a conclusion:

Christ paid for sins → therefore people were justified before faith.

God justifies the ungodly → therefore people were justified before faith.

Adam's headship → therefore people were justified before faith.

Those are deductions. Whether they're right or wrong is a separate discussion. But they are still deductions.

I've asked repeatedly for a passage that actually says:

"A person is justified before believing."

Not a legal model.

Not a theological system.

Not a chain of reasoning.

An actual passage.

As for Romans 4:5, it says God justifies the ungodly. Amen. It does not say God justifies them before faith. In the very same verse the ungodly man is described as believing.

As for Romans 5:19, it says many are made righteous through Christ's obedience. Amen. It does not say they were justified before believing.

You keep accusing me of avoiding your deductions while continuing to avoid my simple question.

Where is the verse?

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Calvinism portrays God as monstrously evil because it teaches that He favours a select few while withholding saving grace from the rest. Scripture is crystal clear that God is no respecter of persons.

Deut 4:2, Deut 13:1–5, Deut 18:20–22, Josh 1:7, Prov 30:5–6, Isa 8:20, Jer 23:16, Jer 23:25–32, Ezek 13:1–16, Matt 7:15–20, Matt 15:9, Matt 24:11, Matt 24:24, Mark 7:7–13, Acts 20:28–31, Rom 16:17–18, 2 Cor 2:17, 2 Cor 4:2, 2 Cor 11:13–15, Gal 1:6–9, Eph 4:14, Phil 3:2, Col 2:8, 1 Tim 1:3–7, 1 Tim 4:1–3, 1 Tim 6:3–5, 2 Tim 2:15–18, 2 Tim 3:13–17, 2 Tim 4:2–4, Titus 1:9–16, Heb 13:9, James 3:1, 2 Pet 2:1–3, 2 Pet 2:12–22, 1 John 2:18–27, 1 John 4:1–6, 2 John 7–11, Jude 3–4, Jude 12–19, Rev 2:2, Rev 2:14–16, Rev 2:20–24, Rev 3:9, Rev 22:18–19

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Brightfame52 said:

King J, your amateur attempt to psychoanalyze my writing style and guess an "AI prompt" is hilarious, but it is also a pathetic admission of defeat. When a man cannot answer the scriptures on the page, he resorts to attacking the syntax, the vocabulary, and the formatting of his opponent. You are hiding behind a smoke screen because you are utterly terrified of the text. Whether a truth is written by hand, typed on a keyboard, or formatted cleanly, the text of Romans still stands, and you still cannot answer it.

Let’s strip away your desperate distractions and look at the actual logic you called a "weakness." You mocked the conclusion: "If Christ paid for sins at the cross then people must have been justified before faith."

You think that’s a flaw in my system? King J, that is basic biblical logic and absolute divine justice! Let's put your conditional system to the test under the harsh light of God's law:

1. The Double Jeopardy Problem: If Christ fully paid for the sins of the elect 2,000 years ago, satisfying the wrath of God and wiping out the debt completely, how can those elect individuals be under actual, legal condemnation before they believe? If they are legally condemned, then Christ's blood did not actually satisfy justice for them at Calvary; it only made a proposal for satisfaction. If God holds a man legally guilty for a debt that has already been fully paid by his Substitute, then God is unjust. But Scripture says God is righteous. Therefore, the justification of the elect was a accomplished legal reality when the blood was shed.
2. The Nature of the "Ungodly" (Romans 4:5): You completely avoided this. Paul states that God "justifieth the ungodly." By definition, an ungodly man is an unbeliever. If a man must first believe in order to be justified, then God is justifying a believer, not the ungodly. You have the cart before the horse. Faith does not create the justification; faith is the fruit of the Spirit that looks to a God who has already legally cleared the ungodly through Christ.
3. The Absolute Parallel of Federal Headship (Romans 5:19): You have no answer for Adam and Christ. Were you legally constituted a sinner by Adam's disobedience before you were born and before you committed a personal sin? Yes. Therefore, by the exact same legal parallel, the elect were legally constituted righteous by Christ's obedience before they were born and before they exercised personal faith.

You can cry about "AI prompts" and "modern catchphrases" all day long, King J. It won't save your theology. Your system holds that Christ died for people who still go to hell, and that the elect are under the wrath of the law for sins that have already been paid for. That isn't the gospel; it's a legal absurdity.

Stop playing amateur detective, drop the meta-arguments about how I write, and face the scriptures: If the elect are legally condemned until they believe, then what did Christ actually accomplish at the cross?

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Since you are a false teacher that won't share their AI prompts for obvious reasons - Chat GPT says:

"As for the AI prompt, I'd now revise my guess slightly. The repeated pattern looks more like:

"Reply as a High Calvinist theologian. Refute a Free Grace Baptist who demands an explicit verse for justification before faith. Argue from legal satisfaction, double jeopardy, federal headship, imputation, Romans 4:5, Romans 5:19, Romans 5:9, and 2 Corinthians 5:19. Show that justification before faith is the necessary conclusion of these passages. Be aggressive, confident."

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Calvinism portrays God as monstrously evil because it teaches that He favours a select few while withholding saving grace from the rest. Scripture is crystal clear that God is no respecter of persons.

Deut 4:2, Deut 13:1–5, Deut 18:20–22, Josh 1:7, Prov 30:5–6, Isa 8:20, Jer 23:16, Jer 23:25–32, Ezek 13:1–16, Matt 7:15–20, Matt 15:9, Matt 24:11, Matt 24:24, Mark 7:7–13, Acts 20:28–31, Rom 16:17–18, 2 Cor 2:17, 2 Cor 4:2, 2 Cor 11:13–15, Gal 1:6–9, Eph 4:14, Phil 3:2, Col 2:8, 1 Tim 1:3–7, 1 Tim 4:1–3, 1 Tim 6:3–5, 2 Tim 2:15–18, 2 Tim 3:13–17, 2 Tim 4:2–4, Titus 1:9–16, Heb 13:9, James 3:1, 2 Pet 2:1–3, 2 Pet 2:12–22, 1 John 2:18–27, 1 John 4:1–6, 2 John 7–11, Jude 3–4, Jude 12–19, Rev 2:2, Rev 2:14–16, Rev 2:20–24, Rev 3:9, Rev 22:18–19

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Justified by the Faith of Jesus Christ !

Gal 2:16

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

We are justified by the faith of Christ, not by our faith in Christ, but by the faith and faithful obedience of Christ himself unto death as our Surety. Rom 5:19

19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

His obedience here does imply His faithfulness, adherence to His Covenant engagement, this obedience/faitfulness results in many being made righteous, or Justified. So we are first and foremost Justified by the faithfulness of Christ as stated in Gal 2:16 ! 41

KingJ said:

BF, Ironically you've just demonstrated my point again.

Every one of your arguments starts with a premise and ends with a conclusion:

Christ paid for sins → therefore people were justified before faith.

God justifies the ungodly → therefore people were justified before faith.

Adam's headship → therefore people were justified before faith.

Those are deductions. Whether they're right or wrong is a separate discussion. But they are still deductions.

I've asked repeatedly for a passage that actually says:

"A person is justified before believing."

Not a legal model.

Not a theological system.

Not a chain of reasoning.

An actual passage.

As for Romans 4:5, it says God justifies the ungodly. Amen. It does not say God justifies them before faith. In the very same verse the ungodly man is described as believing.

As for Romans 5:19, it says many are made righteous through Christ's obedience. Amen. It does not say they were justified before believing.

You keep accusing me of avoiding your deductions while continuing to avoid my simple question.

Where is the verse?

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Calvinism portrays God as monstrously evil because it teaches that He favours a select few while withholding saving grace from the rest. Scripture is crystal clear that God is no respecter of persons.

Deut 4:2, Deut 13:1–5, Deut 18:20–22, Josh 1:7, Prov 30:5–6, Isa 8:20, Jer 23:16, Jer 23:25–32, Ezek 13:1–16, Matt 7:15–20, Matt 15:9, Matt 24:11, Matt 24:24, Mark 7:7–13, Acts 20:28–31, Rom 16:17–18, 2 Cor 2:17, 2 Cor 4:2, 2 Cor 11:13–15, Gal 1:6–9, Eph 4:14, Phil 3:2, Col 2:8, 1 Tim 1:3–7, 1 Tim 4:1–3, 1 Tim 6:3–5, 2 Tim 2:15–18, 2 Tim 3:13–17, 2 Tim 4:2–4, Titus 1:9–16, Heb 13:9, James 3:1, 2 Pet 2:1–3, 2 Pet 2:12–22, 1 John 2:18–27, 1 John 4:1–6, 2 John 7–11, Jude 3–4, Jude 12–19, Rev 2:2, Rev 2:14–16, Rev 2:20–24, Rev 3:9, Rev 22:18–19

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King J, your refusal to look at the plain grammar on the page has turned your argument into a farce. You are playing a game of semantic hide-and-seek because the text of Scripture completely vaporizes your free-will system. You claim that because the ungodly man is described as believing in the same verse in Romans 4:5, it doesn't mean justification happens before faith. Let’s look at the absolute absurdity of your reading under basic rules of grammar.

The verse says: But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Look at the direct object of the verb. The object being justified by God is explicitly defined as the ungodly. What is the definition of an ungodly person? It is a person who is currently destitute of godliness, destitute of holiness, and destitute of faith. If a man must believe first in order to be justified, then at the moment God justifies him, he is no longer ungodly—he is a godly believer. If your system were true, Paul would have written that God "justifieth the believer." But the Holy Spirit explicitly wrote that God justifieth the ungodly. The legal act of justification must target the man while he is still ungodly, which means it explicitly precedes his faith.

You claim this is just a deduction, but it is the literal definition of the words on the paper. If a doctor says, "I am healing the sick man," it means the man is sick when the healing action takes place. He doesn't get healthy first so the doctor can heal him. In the exact same way, God justifies the ungodly while they are ungodly. Your system requires the dead, ungodly corpse to perform a spiritually living act of faith before God clears his debt. You are turning faith into a human work that changes a man's legal status from condemned to justified, which flatly contradicts Titus 3:5.
Let’s look at another text that states this timeline with absolute, literal clarity without a single chain of reasoning. Look at Romans 5:10: 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.

Look at the words on the page. Paul does not say we were reconciled after we stopped being enemies and used our free will to believe. He states explicitly that the reconciliation—which is our legal peace and justification before God—was an accomplished fact when we were enemies. An enemy is an unregenerate unbeliever. The text explicitly places the legal transaction at the moment of Christ’s death, long before we ever existed to believe.

You keep demanding a modern English catchphrase because you cannot handle the legal vocabulary of the Holy Spirit. If a law book says "the king pardoned the rebel while he was still in his prison cell," any sane mind knows the pardon happened before the rebel walked out of the prison. Romans 4:5 says God justifies the ungodly, and Romans 5:10 says we were reconciled while we were enemies. Stop running from the text, stop hiding behind the word "deduction," and answer the literal grammar: does God justify the ungodly man while he is ungodly, or does He wait for him to become a believer first? 41

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KingJ said:

Since you are a false teacher that won't share their AI prompts for obvious reasons - Chat GPT says:

"As for the AI prompt, I'd now revise my guess slightly. The repeated pattern looks more like:

"Reply as a High Calvinist theologian. Refute a Free Grace Baptist who demands an explicit verse for justification before faith. Argue from legal satisfaction, double jeopardy, federal headship, imputation, Romans 4:5, Romans 5:19, Romans 5:9, and 2 Corinthians 5:19. Show that justification before faith is the necessary conclusion of these passages. Be aggressive, confident."

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King J, your frantic obsession with trying to guess AI prompts is a pathetic, embarrassing admission of total theological defeat. You have completely run out of arguments. You cannot answer the explicit text of Romans 4:5 which states God justifies the ungodly while they are ungodly. You cannot answer the explicit text of Romans 5:10 which states we were legally reconciled to God while we were still enemies and unbelievers. Because the raw words of the Holy Spirit completely destroy your synergistic, free-will theology, you have stopped reading the Bible altogether and started arguing with a computer program.

It doesn’t matter if a truth is written with ink and quill, typed on a keyboard, or generated by software. Truth is truth, and the text of Scripture stands independent of your frantic meta-arguments. If an automated software program can perfectly articulate the sovereign grace of God, the legal satisfaction of Christ's cross, and the absolute reality of federal headship using nothing but the plain grammar of the text, while you—a self-proclaimed teacher—cannot answer a single verse without fleeing into personal insults, that tells us everything we need to know about the state of your theology.

You are hiding behind definitions of "deductions" and "prompts" because you are absolutely terrified of the legal math of the gospel. You want to believe that your human act of faith is the ultimate decider that triggers salvation, which turns faith into a meritorious work of righteousness and flatly contradicts Titus 3:5.

Let's see if you can pull yourself together, log off your chatbot apps, and actually answer the word of God on the page. Romans 5:10 says we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son when we were enemies. Was that reconciliation an accomplished legal fact 2,000 years ago while we were still ungodly enemies, or wasn't it? Stop running, stop deflecting, and face the text of God's Word.

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When we understand that we are Justified before God by Christs faithful obedience, the faith of Christ, then we avoid the pitfall that has snared many, that is, if we are Justified before God because of our faith, whether it be natural faith, or regenerated faith, then we make Justification before God to be by what we do, instead of by what Christ did. To propose, or indicate in any means that our works, or even our faith/believing, had anything at all to do with making us righteous before God for justification is to deny the Gospel of Gods Grace entirely. 41

Brightfame52 said:

When we understand that we are Justified before God by Christs faithful obedience, the faith of Christ, then we avoid the pitfall that has snared many, that is, if we are Justified before God because of our faith, whether it be natural faith, or regenerated faith, then we make Justification before God to be by what we do, instead of by what Christ did. To propose, or indicate in any means that our works, or even our faith/believing, had anything at all to do with making us righteous before God for justification is to deny the Gospel of Gods Grace entirely. 41

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How do you explain sinners getting themselves into paradise / Abraham's bosom in the OT?

KingJ said:

How do you explain sinners getting themselves into paradise / Abraham's bosom in the OT?

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Kingj, your question exposes the very pitfall I warned against. Sinners did not get themselves into paradise or Abraham's bosom. To suggest they did is to teach salvation by human power.

Old Testament elect sinners entered paradise because Christ stood as their Eternal Surety. In the mind of God, Christ's faithful obedience was a finished, legally binding reality before the foundation of the world. They were admitted into paradise solely on the credit of Christ's future righteousness, not because of anything they did, and not even because of the quality of their own believing. If Christ's faithfulness didn't put them there, they would all be in hell.

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