Do we need to have a law earned righteousness credited to our account or can we become the sons of God and have the righteousness that is Christ's imputed to us by His grace? Eph 1:4 "just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. 7In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace"
Harry
John Reisinger <24jreisinger26@...> wrote:
This is probably a dumb question, but as the Dutchman says, "It wonders me."
. If the perfect righteousness of Christ earned by keeping the Law is imputed to us then why would we need a sacrifice for sin since we would already be accounted as perfectly righteous?
Likewise, if forgiveness of sin was all that was imputed to us through Christ's cross work would we not be in a kind of "limbo?" Would we be not guilty because we were forgiven and therefore could not be condemned and lost, but not justified because we did not have an earned righteousness credited to our account? Hence the necessity of the righteous life of Christ, in addition to his death, being imputed to us.
JGR
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