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“Paul shows that the death [and resurrection] of Christ is not just representative as he bears the sinner's guilt and takes the sinner's place, but it is incorporative…the same Christ with whom he died now lives in him as a new reality that inhabits his flesh. His own flesh, then, no longer defines the limits of his existence or constitutes the true outline of his self; he is in Christ and Christ is in him.”
— Mar 16, 2026 06:31PM
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Jonah Hill
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Well-written. “Imputation is, if you like, a corollary of implantation. What this means for the righteousness that is manifest in the transformation of our Christian lives is that it proceeds not from an infusion of new spiritual energy but from our new identities constituted in union with Jesus Christ.”
— Mar 17, 2026 03:21PM
Jonah Hill
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Echoes of good ol’ Cavin:
“Idolatry is defined by its subjects as much as it is by its objects; we are constitutionally idolatrous, and that is why we turn things into idols.”
— Mar 14, 2026 03:32PM
“Idolatry is defined by its subjects as much as it is by its objects; we are constitutionally idolatrous, and that is why we turn things into idols.”
Jonah Hill
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Macaskill says John 15:5 is a clear paradigm for sanctification, but because of sinful individualism, we don’t rely on Christ’s Spirt to change us.
“If sin is … a turning inward into ourselves, then it is entirely opposed to the act of opening ourselves to the indwelling presence of another, particularly THIS other, who has such power to transform us. Sin seeks to dig in, to hold on to what it occupies.”
— Mar 14, 2026 03:26PM
“If sin is … a turning inward into ourselves, then it is entirely opposed to the act of opening ourselves to the indwelling presence of another, particularly THIS other, who has such power to transform us. Sin seeks to dig in, to hold on to what it occupies.”
Jonah Hill
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“The Spirit…who is so important to Paul's account of the moral life, is represented not as helping us to fulfill our frustrated potential but as realizing within us the identity of the Son, and he does this because he himself is the Spirit of the Son (Gal. 4:6)”
— Mar 14, 2026 02:58PM
Jonah Hill
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After saying union with Christ is the sine qua non of the “Christian moral life”:
“The goal of our salvation is not that we become morally better versions of ourselves, but that we come to inhabit and manifest more of [Jesus’s] moral identity.”
— Mar 14, 2026 02:53PM
“The goal of our salvation is not that we become morally better versions of ourselves, but that we come to inhabit and manifest more of [Jesus’s] moral identity.”
