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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Rom 4:1-25. Justification Apart From Works?
The part of Romans that fuels Luther’s ‘justification by faith alone apart from works (all sorts of works)’ is chapter 4. If Abraham was justified by works… 4 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as debt. 5 And to the one who does not work but believes (v11) in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted …
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