The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Justification and the Effectual Call

First here's your answer to the question re: the WCF and justification in eternity:

The Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter XI
Of Justification

IV. God did, from all eternity, decree to justify all the elect,[11] and Christ did, in the fullness of time, die for their sins, and rise again for their justification:[12] nevertheless, they are not justified, until the Holy Spirit doth, in due time, actually apply Christ unto them.[13]

11. Rom. 8:29, 30; Gal. 3:8; I Peter 1:2, 19-20
12. Gal. 4:4; I Tim. 2:6; Rom. 4:25
13. Eph. 2:3; Titus 3:3-7; Gal. 2:16; cf. Col. 1:21-22

Now, could you explain what you mean that there was a "justification that occurs at the cross and at the resurrection"? What was the nature of that justification? And going back to God's decreeing the elect's justification in eternity, what do you understand about that aspect of justification? Hmmm, so many questions, eh?

In His Grace,