How is it removed? You can't undo what you did. You must exchange it for what Christ did, and this is a legal transaction.

O, that my brethren could see the fulness that there is in Jesus, and the love wherewith He hath loved us! In Christ we are as if we had suffered the penalty we have incurred. In Christ I am as if I had obeyed, and rendered perfect obedience to the law, which we can not perfectly obey without Christ imparts to us His merits and His righteousness. O, the plan of salvation is a wonderful matter, and we have enough to think of, and talk of, and to be thankful for every day of our lives. {PUR, September 4, 1913 par. 3}

If you give yourself to Him, and accept Him as your Saviour, then, sinful as your life may have been, for His sake you are accounted righteous. Christ's character stands in place of your character, and you are accepted before God just as if you had not sinned. {SC 62.2}

Ok. I'm in agreement with this.

You introduce a new defintion. You definition that is not valid. Iniquity is not permanent. It can be forgiven. My comparison with EGW quote and your is spot on.

AMEN AMEN. Our works do not save us, but we MUST put forth EFFORT. What is EFFORT? The work we put forward. It does not save us, but be must exercised.

NOTE:
1) there was no hope for Adam and Eve after they ate the fruit. Why? Because they were in legal trouble?
2) Christ took the sin upon himself. Christ OVERCAME. Overcame what? SIN. Was the sin on him only in Gethsemane as Green claims? NO. Look at the wilderness of temptation. Christ was made to besin.
3) Sin had bound humans to Satan. LEGALLY? NO. In reality. Man had become "so weakened". This is in the fleah. This is why Christ took on human nature, "sin laden flesh". Christ gained the victory. And will give us His divine power COMBINED with human effort, to ENABLE us to OVERCOME.

We MUST overcome, or we will not be saved. This requied HUMAN EFFORT. But none of our effort is good enough. It must be COMBINED with DIVINE POWER. We can not trust anything we can do. But we still must choose Him. Is our goal to be legally off the hook? NO. We must be RENEWED in holiness. We must be restored. Born again.

Now compare what you said with what Ellen White says:

APL: If we are accounted righteous, it is because we ARE righteous

EGW: Sinners can be justified by God only when He pardons their sins, remits the punishment they deserve, and treats them as though they were really just and had not sinned, receiving them into divine favor and treating them as if they were righteous. {OHC 52.3}


Of course at conversion there is a new birth and the total transformation of the whole nature. No question about that. But in which way can the transformation of your nature undo what you did? If you killed somebody, your guilt, your sin, is gone because you are born again? So the new birth, not the blood of Christ, takes away sin?

And how is a baby saved if he wasn't born again and didn't overcome?

What saves us?

APL: If we are accounted righteous, it is because we ARE righteous

EGW: Sinners can be justified by God only when He pardons their sins, remits the punishment they deserve, and treats them as though they were really just and had not sinned, receiving them into divine favor and treating them as if they were righteous. {OHC 52.3} 

ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!! God does not lie! He cannot lie. If you are restored, healed, you are treated as if you never even had sin!!! Those admitted to heaven, will be righteous.

Rosangela: Of course at conversion there is a new birth and the total transformation of the whole nature. No question about that. But in which way can the transformation of your nature undo what you did? If you killed somebody your guilt, your sin, is gone because you are born again? So the new birth, not the blood of Christ, takes away sin?

apl: NO - Christ blood provides you the new birth!! And, in a very literal sense, not a legal sense.

The example from the OT time was leprosy. A leprous peson was banned from the community. Sinners are banned from the community of non-sinners. If a leprous person was healed, and certified as so by the priest, they were admitted back into the community as if they had never had leprosy. They are treated as if there were healthy. A sinner when they are healed, are admitted back into the community of the universe. There is nothing in the the OT law that would legally let a leprous person back. The only way it to come back into compliance with the law, which means they could not have any leprosy. The same with sin. The atonement that Christ worked out has to be applied to each individual. The work of the cleansing of the sanctuary is just as necessary as the death of Christ. Without the application, there is no salvation. It is healing, not legal.

Here is the problem - the 10 commandments are a diagnostic instrument. They describe the disease sin. Violation of the 10C are symptoms, murder, lying, coveting, are "sins". The disease is "Sin". If you treat the disease, the symptoms go away. If you murder someone, yes, they are gone. Their case will be handled in the investigative judgement. They will come up in the correct resurrection.

You know the story of Job. What is the story of Job about? Yes, it shows that Satan is a liar, a murder, the cause of all destruction, not God. But there is a very important part to the story of Job which many people miss. And that is that God can call a character. God knew Job, and how he would respond. In the judgment, sinners are not the only once on trial. GOD is on trial. In the IJ when God says, yes, I will admit Rosangela to the Kingdom, He will need to make the case and present all the facts to assure the unfallen world that Rosangela is safe to save. Not legally off the hook, but completely restored, or as will be the case for most, restorable. God can call the character and knows the direction and end results of a persons salvation. The IJ may be more about God that us.

APL,

There are two other posts for you to reply to. Up till now, what I have seen here is salvation by works.