WE ARE JUSTIFIED AND MADE SINFREE BY THE IMPUTATION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, OF WHICH CIRCUMCISION IS A SIGN

WE ARE JUSTIFIED AND MADE SINFREE BY THE IMPUTATION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, OF WHICH CIRCUMCISION IS A SIGN

Many in religion believe justification by imputation (which is salvation) does not change the heart or makes a person righteous and sinfree within. Thus a salvation in sin doctrine is propagated as the gospel.

Now Romans 4:5-7 Speaks of justification by the imputation of Righteousness. I quote:

"4 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted (counted = Gk. logizimai means imputed) for righteousness.

6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth (Gk. logizomai) righteousness without works,

7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. (Psalms 32:1)"

Psalms 32 continues ....2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

No guile in the heart tells us imputation is an inward work of God making man sinfree

Once God who is Love is not in your mind by His truths abiding there in place of sinful worldly values the person is in sin. The bible tells us in 1John 2:15-16 "15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." So when God justifies us by Imputing righteousness to us and gives us the experience of Himself in us we are made free of sin.

Rom.6:5-7 also speaks of the person who is justified as one who is justified from sin and as one that has been made dead in regards to the old man or old sinful state of the mind, I quote "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin (dead to sin). 7 For he that is dead is freed (freed = Gk. dikaioo means justified) from sin." And remember for sin to be in your experience it must be in your mind first. Sin within is not due to a sin nature in the flesh. For all sin comes from the heart of man. As it is written in Mark 7:21-23 "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."

Also consider Romans 4:11 and Rom.2:28-29

"And he (Abraham) received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:"

Note the text shows that circumcusion symbolizes the imputation of Righteousness through the faith to them that believe.

Circumcision represents the imputation of Righteousness and Paul explained the spiritual meaning of the symbol of circumcision in Rom.2:28-29, I quote: 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh. 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

So dear Facebook friends the bible is so clear on these things let us believe the faith - the revealed truths that we too will be imputed with righteousness.

P.S. below is information from a Greek dictionary and a Greek lexicon on the Greek word logizomai which is translated as impute or counted or reckoned in the bible, I quote:

"Actually, the verb logizomai means to put together with one's mind, to count, to occupy oneself with reckoning or calculations "

The Complete Word Study Dictionary by Spiros Zodhiates

"Logizomai 4:284,536

Phonetic Spelling Parts of Speech

log-id'-zom-ahee Verb

Definition

to reckon, count, compute, calculate, count over

to take into account, to make an account of

1. metaph. to pass to one's account, to impute

2 (a) a thing is reckoned as or to be something, i.e. as availing for or equivalent to something, as having the like force and weight

(b) to number among, reckon with

to reckon or account

(c) to reckon inward, count up or weigh the reasons, to deliberate

3. by reckoning up all the reasons, to gather or infer

to consider, take into account, weigh, meditate on, to suppose, to deem, to judge

to determine, purpose, decide."

This word deals with reality. If I "logizomai" or reckon that my bank book has $25 in it, it has $25 in it. Otherwise I am deceiving myself. This word refers to facts not suppositions." 

Greek lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others; this is keyed to the large Kittel and the "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament." These files are public domain.

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