Pete Richert
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Imputation and NCT
I thought I would chime in here since no one has quite settled the issue on NCT and their general belief in the imputation of Christ's active obedience to the law. Quick qualifications on my part, of have done some reading on NCT, including Wells/Zaspel and Reisenger (sp) and attend a Reformed Baptist Church committed to NCT and which at this very moment is founding the first seminary whose major hermeneutic will be NCT. I can assure you that NCT is committed to Christ's active obedience to the law, my pastor, Wells, Zaspel, and Reisenger included. I, like Pastor Way, thought Fred was completely off base when he was claiming NCT denied this, since I have never heard anything like this in NCT circles. But if this article does stem from within the NCT camp then either the NCT leaders are not aware or do not find in conflicting with the general NCT distinctives; I opt for the former.
Strangely enough, the only person within my church who is still unsettled on this doctrine is the one also not sure about NCT . . . namely myself. I do not find it a denial of justification by faith but as Fred hinted, a disagreement about the nature of the law and its purpose as well as a disagreement about the nature of true saving faith. I accept the imputation of Christ's righteous for the simple reason of looking to the great cloud of witnesses around me but I have come to a point in my life where I am not settled on an issue until the Bible becomes ultimately clear and this issue has proved illusive on that.
I thought I would chime in here since no one has quite settled the issue on NCT and their general belief in the imputation of Christ's active obedience to the law. Quick qualifications on my part, of have done some reading on NCT, including Wells/Zaspel and Reisenger (sp) and attend a Reformed Baptist Church committed to NCT and which at this very moment is founding the first seminary whose major hermeneutic will be NCT. I can assure you that NCT is committed to Christ's active obedience to the law, my pastor, Wells, Zaspel, and Reisenger included. I, like Pastor Way, thought Fred was completely off base when he was claiming NCT denied this, since I have never heard anything like this in NCT circles. But if this article does stem from within the NCT camp then either the NCT leaders are not aware or do not find in conflicting with the general NCT distinctives; I opt for the former.
Strangely enough, the only person within my church who is still unsettled on this doctrine is the one also not sure about NCT . . . namely myself. I do not find it a denial of justification by faith but as Fred hinted, a disagreement about the nature of the law and its purpose as well as a disagreement about the nature of true saving faith. I accept the imputation of Christ's righteous for the simple reason of looking to the great cloud of witnesses around me but I have come to a point in my life where I am not settled on an issue until the Bible becomes ultimately clear and this issue has proved illusive on that.