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From: "H Dorrington" <hjdinfl@...>
> These verses certainly could be in agreement with the teaching of the
imputation of Christ's law-keeping.  But they do not >*teach* the doctrine.
So 5:8-9 could be an affirmation of the doctrine if it was actually taught
somewhere else in >Scripture....But the bottom line is that Hebrews 5:8-9 is
not a passage that is about the imputation of the active obedience >of
Christ so it cannot be used to as a foundational passage in support of that
doctrine.

The canon was never intended to be read this way.  Hebrews 5:8-9, while
serving an immediate purpose for the original hearers, also plays a
foundational role for the doctrine in the rest of scripture.  So while
imputation might not be at the forefront of the writer of Hebrews minds...
*if* he is invoking the idea in support of something, then it certainly
becomes a consideration for the other passages where imputation *is* primary
in a biblical author's mind.  No passage is ever isolated from the rest of
the canon.  Christ never intended his revelation to be used that way.

Chad Bresson
Xenia, OH