Justification

[ascund]

Greetings in the name of Christ and sound theology :!:

Justification is a critical doctrine for Christian theology. A proper understanding of justification is mandatory as a bulwark against heresy. Luther claimed that it was the "chief article" by which a Church stands or falls. I whole heartedly recommend that we each take the following quiz:

1 (a) God gives a man right standing with Himself by mercifully accounting him innocent and virtuous.
. .( God gives a man right standing with Himself by actually making him into an innocent and virtuous person.

2 (a) God gives a man right standing with Himself by placing Christ

[chev1958]

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Mitch

[JJJ4given]

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Mitch

Just cut and paste and delete the period at the end.

I am neither protestant or catholic. Just because the protestants hi-jacked some of the baptists beliefs, doesn't make baptists protestants, though there are many baptists that are protestants.

Cardinal Hosius (Catholic, 1524), President of the Council of Trent:

"Were it not that the baptists have been grievously tormented and cut off with the knife during the past twelve hundred years, they would swarm in greater number than all the Reformers." (Hosius, Letters, Apud Opera, pp. 112, 113.)

The "twelve hundred years" were the years preceding the Reformation in which Rome persecuted Baptists with the most cruel persecution thinkable.

Sir Isaac Newton:

"The Baptists are the only body of known Christians that have never symbolized with Rome."

Mosheim (Lutheran):

"Before the rise of Luther and Calvin, there lay secreted in almost all the countries of Europe persons who adhered tenaciously to the principles of modern Dutch Baptists."

Edinburg Cyclopedia (Presbyterian):

"It must have already occurred to our readers that the Baptists are the same sect of Christians that were formerly described as Ana-Baptists. Indeed this seems to have been their leading principle from the time of Tertullian to the present time."

God bless!

[chev1958]

Oops, I did the cut-and-paste thing, but missed the period.

Mitch

[lettheredeemedsayso]

Justification= Just as if we never sinned.


Romans 5

[Madeline]

Justification is the act of God whereby our legal standing in heaven is changed and we are declared righteous. The verb justify and the adjective righteous are linked in Scripture, since both share a common Greek root. When we express saving faith in God, He adds righteousness and perfection to our record. God is the source, with the power to declare righteous, and man is the recipient, being declared righteous. Abraham is the first person the Bible describes as being justified. However, this does not mean he was the first child of God, only that his is the first record case of justification. With Abraham, as with others later, justification was the result of saving faith (Gen. 15:6; Rom. 5:1). Anyone who comes to God and trusts Christ for salvation will be justified. The principle of justification valid for Abraham is valid for all believers. Because Jesus was raised from the dead we know that His sacrifice on Calvary was accepted in God's sight and Jesus' righteousness is available for all. All the sins of the world were placed on Jesus Christ, who suffered and paid in full the legal penalty demanded. He endured this so that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Having died and shed His blood to fulfill the demands of the Law, He forgives all the sins, past, present, and future, of those whom He washe... from [their] sins in his own blood (Rev. 1:5). Also, Christ died... [so that we might be] justified by his blood (Rom. 5:8-9). To be justified means to be declared righteous; God not only forgives all the sins of those who are redeemed by the blood of Christ, but He judicially reckons them just. Christ having suffered and died to pay for their sins as their substitute, God accounts to them the righteousness of His Son; He views them as if they had no sin debt to pay, no sin nature, had lived a sinless life as did Christ, and were as spotless and holy as Jesus Himself, for Christ Jesus... is made unto [them] wisdom, and Righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption (1 Cor. 1:30); they can say, the LORD [is] our righteousness (Jer. 33:16, 23:6), for they are

[ascund]

Justification= Just as if we never sinned.

Romans 5

Hey lettheredeemedsayso

Ouch! You've captured the negative aspect of justification quite well. Justification does have your idea of the removal of sin. However, this sort of leaves us a zero point.

Justification is much more than the removal of sin. Justification is God's declaration of righteousness (2 Cor 5:19-21). Paul, in Romans 4, used Abraham as a classic example of how His faith in the gospel initiated the IMPUTATION of righteousness.

Justification is also our citizenship in heaven. It is God's equipping of the believer with every spiritual gift in Christ (Eph 1:3).

Redemption (a synonym with justification) is where God lavishes His grace upon us (Eph 1:7).

At the new birth, God's Spirit personally indwells every believer. God's Spirit has also sealed us unto the Day of Redemption.

Justification has many positive blessings in addition to the removal of sin and guilt.

Dr. O

[chev1958]

Hey, Madeline, how about some paragraphs or spaces somewhere. That's a lot of text to read all crammed in there together.

Mitch

[lettheredeemedsayso]

Ouch! You've captured the negative aspect of justification

Not quite sure how that could be a negative definition? That was just a definition in a nutshell.

Once we get into the other aspects that you are speaking of we are talking about not only grace, redemption and sanctification which are related but different.