Someone suggested to me that logical interpolation is not exegesis.
 
"Where is there a word about Christ's keeping the law for us, in order that this should be accepted in lieu of man's failure? Are we to supplement the written word, as if God did not know the truth better than we?" Good questions! 
 
Looking back at the book of Hebrews of which we have been talking, check out 2:9,10; 9:26; 13:12.  These verses show that Jesus' suffering and his obedience are in relation to his sacrificial death.  They reveal how strong this tie is. But even if we down play these verses and say His entire life should be regarded as suffering it still does not prove that Christ kept the law in lieu of man's failure so that He may earn additional righteousness to be imputed to His elect.

"But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being attested to by the law and the prophets." The righteousness of God, therefore, is no longer like Joseph, a shadow of coming good but is manifested in the person of the incarnate Son of God. Notice the Holy Spirit chose to describe it as "without the law" rather than saying it was earned by the law. Even verse 25 says what I have been saying about Christ,  whom God displayed publicly "to demonstrate His righteousness" and again in verse 26 of Romans 3:21-26 "to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness" He didn't earn our righteousness through active obedience but He demonstrated His righteousness by His obedience to the law because His righteousness is apart from the law not because of it!
 
He who was without sin bore our sin on the cross. Did the law make Him sinless or did the law find no fault in Him because He was sinless? It declared Him sinless because His righteousness is apart from the law. It is the tutor who points to Him. It testifies of Him but no where does it directly say that it earns us our righteousness, does it?
 
Harry
 
 
 Chad Richard Bresson <breusswane@...> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "H Dorrington" 
> A lot of speculation although very logical...

Biblical theology is not "speculation". It's exegesis.

> You may be stretching the Joseph analogy a wee bit as Alistair would say.

Joseph existed and was recorded precisely to prefigure and point us to
Christ.

Chad Bresson
Xenia, OH

		
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