#imputation

[wisdomfish]

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

A righteous man may make a righteous work, but no work of an unrighteous man can make him righteous. Now we become righteous only by faith, through the righteousness of Christ imputed to us.

Thomas Boston

[reformedontheweb]

Eternal life depends on Christ alone — nothing, but nothing, else. Predestination will not bring it. Providence cannot produce it. It does not rest on foreknowledge, divine decrees, or even the atonement itself. Eternal life is Christ dwelling in His righteousness in the soul of the justified person. So eternal life is union with Jesus Christ. And the word for that union with Jesus Christ is faith. The sinner comes to Him, rests in Him, trusts in Him, is one with Him, abides in Him; and this is life because it never, ever, ends. The united soul abides in the Vine eternally. Weakness, sin, proneness to sin never brings separation, but only the Father’s pruning, which cements the union even and ever tighter.

This is the heart of the Bible. This is the heart of the gospel. This is the heart of Christianity. This is the heart of the saint. This is the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ. Those are the reasons it was the heart of the Reformation; and this is the reason the contemporary attempt of some Protestants to unite with those who do not even claim this heart of the life of Jesus Christ is to commit spiritual suicide. No lover of Jesus Christ can consent to this apostasy.

John Gerstner- Justification by Faith Alone: Affirming the Doctrine By Which the Church and the Individual Stands or Falls, Chapter 4- The Nature of Justifying Faith, published by Soli Deo Gloria Publications; Morgan PA, 1995

[catholiccom-blog]

How Fully Are We Justified?  

[sraffasnotes-blog]

pre-1928, D1/21: 6; B.III.21.vi

Wieser, The Austrian School, E. J. I, 112

“The most momentuous consequence of the theory of imputation is, I take it, that it is false, with [the] Socialists, to impute to labour alone the entire productive return”.

Quoted by Jannaccone (Costo Pr., 51) who also holds that an important motive in the “utility” writers, was to falsify the doctrinal bases of scientific Socialists – and gives additional references to that effect.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

In The Law-Court Of God The Christian Is Accounted Righteous Only On The Ground Of Christ’s Righteousness Imputed

by R. Scott Clark | In the law-court of God, then, the justification of man as sinner is the judgment of God whereby He pronounces righteous the person who is unholy and of himself a sinner subject to God’s wrath. He does so out of his own...

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The gospel is imputation, justification, propitiation, sanctification, regeneration, and glorification...

Jack Hyles

[reformedontheweb]

"We have now the principal point or the main hinge of the first part of this Epistle, — that we are justified by faith through the mercy of God alone"

John Calvin- Comm. Rom. 1:17