It is not Biblical, hints of Antinomianism, also hyper-Calvinism, and it is is anti-Confessional for those that affirm the Westminster Standards, LBCF, etc. Justification is one of the fruits of Christs redemptive work, applied to believers by the Holy Spirit. But the Spirit did not and could not apply this or any other fruit of the work of Christ from eternity. Eternal justification (justified from eterntity") denies the elect were ever sinners, children of wrath.
AMR, I understand your concern, but as twin has pointed out they are baseless strawman arguments. Calvinism in general has been said to "hint at Antinomianism," but of course it doesn't.
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Case in point:
Abrahams justification must not be seen as suspended until the Cross lest the argument of its timing relative to his circumcision fall to the ground, nor was this necessary from the perspective of the Holy One who inhabits Eternity. One of the problems I see with the theological slicing and dicing from Goodwin is the attempt to see justification as both forensic and experiential. Another is that the completion of the work of redemption appears to be left to our response of faith. Sometimes what appears to be solutions have the potential to create worse problems. In the case of Abraham and other Old Testament believers the applicatory (3) is seen as occurring prior to that which is referred to as the transient (2). This is not a problem with a God whose justifying decree is eternal and transcendant, but certainly should be to theologians who are not considering it from His perspective.
John T. Jeffery
False Claims against Eternal Justification Cleared | Feileadh Mor
Dr. Beeke on the subject:
justified personally | Feileadh Mor
Regeneration doth not make us sons
| Feileadh Mor
Even Spurgeon, talking out of both sides of his mouth, said it was true.
Spurgeon: Justificaiton From Eternity | Feileadh Mor
If a King gives a condemned man a pardon but the pardon doesnt reach the condemned man for a few days, or even months, when does the pardon actually take place? Does the pardon depend on the decree from the King to pardon or the condemned mans apprehension of it? Just a thought.
There is no succession in the knowledge of God. The variety of successions and changes in the world make not succession, or new objects in the Divine mind; for all things are present to him from eternity in regard of his knowledge, though they are not actually present in the world, in regard of their existence. He doth not know one thing now, and another anon; he sees all things at once; Known unto God are all things from the beginning of the world (Acts 15:18); but in their true order of succession, as they lie in the eternal council of God, to be brought forth in time. Though there be a succession and order of things as they are wrought, there is yet no succession in God in regard of his knowledge of them. God knows the things that shall be wrought, and the order of them in their being brought upon the stage of the world; yet both the things and the order he knows by one act. Though all things be present with God, yet they are present to him in the order of their appearance in the world, and not so present with him as if they should be wrought at once. The death of Christ was to precede his resurrection in order of time; there is a succession in this; both at once are known by God; yet the act of his knowledge is not exercised about Christ as dying and rising at the same time; so that there is succession in things when there is no succession in Gods knowledge of them. Since God knows time, he knows all things as they are in time; he doth not know all things to be at once, though he knows at once what is, has been, and will be. All things are past, present, and to come, in regard of their existence; but there is not past, present, and to come, in regard of Gods knowledge of them, because he sees and knows not by any other, but by himself; he is his own light by which he sees, his own glass wherein he sees; beholding himself, he beholds all things. - Stephen Charnock
Yours in the Lord,
jm