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Clare73

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Obviously not.
"made effective to one through faith in him" (Eph 2:8-9).
That expression is foreign to me.
Eph 2:8-9 - "It is by grace you have been saved, through faith---and this not from yourselves, it is a gift of God----not by works, so that no one can boast."

No faith in Christ = no salvation from God's wrath at the Judgment.
My faith doesn't make Christ's atonement effective;
It makes it applicable to you, which it is not without faith (Jn 3:18).
Christ suffered and died, the just for the unjust. That happened. Period. Full Stop.
No, the rest of the NT cannot be shut out.
NT Scripture is correctly understood only in the light of all NT Scripture.
Faith receives the already efficacious and finished work. The Cross stands where it stands, the One who bled and died for every single sinner, without exception.
Jesus disagrees. . .Jn 3:18.

"Whoever believes in me is not condemned, but whoever does not believe in me is condemned already."

God does nothing in vain, particularly the death of his Son, which accomplishes all that it was done for.
 
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Furthermore, the idea that all conceptions except for that of the Theotokos are unclean contradicts the Scriptural statement that the marriage bed is undefiled.
Undefiled marriage bed? Never heard that one before....where in Scripture is this found?
We are conceived in sin, but are not corrupted by original sin as a result of our conception, but rather because the condition of hereditary sin applies in general and would be unavoidable.
Using Scripture: Can you make that distinction between sin resulting from conception and the condition of hereditary sin? Never heard of that one either. There is no distinction post fall between hereditary conception and hereditary sin unless Scripture states there is. Trying to make post fall sex...into pre fall sex sounds like Platonism.
 
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