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Those who would oppose the teachings of “Original Sin” and the legal imputation of the guilt of that sin caused by the disobedience and fall of Adam, fail to realize God always deals with man according to Covenant:
“. . The doctrine of imputation, as generally held by Calvinistic divines, is, that it brings in another species of oneness or identity as subsisting between Adam and his posterity; that of federal representation or covenant headship; i.e.the doctrine that God made a covenant with Adam and that in the covenant [Adam] represented his posterity; the covenant being made not only for himself, but for them, including in its provisions them as well as himself, so that while there was no actual participation by them in the moral culpability or blameworthiness of his sin, they (incurred) in consequence of [Adam’s] failure to fulfill the covenant engagement . . guilt in the sense of legal answerableness, to this effect that God, on the ground of the covenant, regarded and treated them as if they had themselves been guilty of the sin whereby the covenant was broken; and in that in this way they became involved in all the natural and penal consequences which Adam brought upon himself by his first sin.” William Cunningham, “Historical Theology” Volume I
In like manner, a New Covenant was made between God and Jesus Christ, who acted as federal representative and head of His church; making His spiritual posterity beneficiaries of His righteous obedience and performance of this covenant, unto death, and
ratifying the covenant in time with His blood. As consequence of Christ perfectly keeping covenant with God under the Law, the necessary legal grounds were established for the justification of all souls represented by Christ on the cross and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness to their account.
Dispensationalism, Pelagianism, Socinianism, Arminianism, Open Theism, etc. fail to properly teach and reveal both the Covenant of Works and the New Covenant that provides believers with a full and biblical Gospel message and sound understanding of the depths of Godly grace and Redemption.
“. . The doctrine of imputation, as generally held by Calvinistic divines, is, that it brings in another species of oneness or identity as subsisting between Adam and his posterity; that of federal representation or covenant headship; i.e.the doctrine that God made a covenant with Adam and that in the covenant [Adam] represented his posterity; the covenant being made not only for himself, but for them, including in its provisions them as well as himself, so that while there was no actual participation by them in the moral culpability or blameworthiness of his sin, they (incurred) in consequence of [Adam’s] failure to fulfill the covenant engagement . . guilt in the sense of legal answerableness, to this effect that God, on the ground of the covenant, regarded and treated them as if they had themselves been guilty of the sin whereby the covenant was broken; and in that in this way they became involved in all the natural and penal consequences which Adam brought upon himself by his first sin.” William Cunningham, “Historical Theology” Volume I
In like manner, a New Covenant was made between God and Jesus Christ, who acted as federal representative and head of His church; making His spiritual posterity beneficiaries of His righteous obedience and performance of this covenant, unto death, and
ratifying the covenant in time with His blood. As consequence of Christ perfectly keeping covenant with God under the Law, the necessary legal grounds were established for the justification of all souls represented by Christ on the cross and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness to their account.
Dispensationalism, Pelagianism, Socinianism, Arminianism, Open Theism, etc. fail to properly teach and reveal both the Covenant of Works and the New Covenant that provides believers with a full and biblical Gospel message and sound understanding of the depths of Godly grace and Redemption.
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