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Is Genesis 15:6 ‘he counted to him as righteousness’ the Proof for the Imputation of Righteousness? A Case of Lost in Translation. Part One

Protestants presuppose that the righteousness acceptable to God has to be perfect, and the way to have this perfect righteousness is by God imputing Christ’s perfect righteousness/justice onto Christians through Christ’s death. Here ‘imputing’ is synonymous to ‘counting’ which is a real-time reckoning. Like an accountant reckoning/counting the figure when looking at an account, Protestants picture God …

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