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Originally Posted by boxcar
"Man" as in all men on the planet?
"Infusion" is not taught in scripture with respect to the Last Adam's righteousness or for that matter with Adam's original sin. Imputation is the proper word. By God's sovereign grace, a legal transaction takes place when one's personal sins and Adam's original sin are laid on (imputed to) Christ, and Christ's righteousness, in turn, is imputed to the sinner. It's legal in nature because all men are lawbreakers and no mortal man is inherently righteous.
Being partakers of the divine nature is limited to born again Christians who are indwelt by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is how Christians are made to partake in the divine nature.
And no one is has any "filial" relationship with God in space and time until, again, by His sovereign grace He chooses to cause one to be born again (1Pet 1:3). At that point in time, one is brought into God's family, i.e. adopted.
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"Man"...You're nitpicking.
"'Infusion' is not taught in scripture..And no one is has any "filial" relationship with God in space and time."...
You must have the Thomas Jefferson edition...Gal 3:25-4:7..."Now that faith has come...you
are all sons of God ...and if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to the promise...God sent forth his Son...so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you
are sons, God
has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba! Father! So through God you
are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son then an heir."
But perhaps the devotees of imputed grace learned their legal fiction from Paul.
The Reformers stressed God's sovereignty to the minimization or exclusion of all else. Taking one aspect of theology, and using it to argue against the rest, is the definition of heresy.
