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From: "Chad Richard Bresson" <breusswane@...>
> John Calvin held to active obedience.

"What is placing our righteousness in the obedience of Christ, but asserting 
that we are accounted righteous only because His obedience is accepted for 
us as if it were our own?" -- John Calvin

".he says that he is made unto us righteousness, by which he means that we 
are on his account acceptable to God, inasmuch as he expiated our sins by is 
death, and his obedience is imputed to us for righteousness. For as the 
righteousness of faith consists in remission of sins and a gracious 
acceptance, we obtain both through Christ." -- John Calvin

"Now someone asks, how has Christ abolished sin, banished the separation 
between us and God, and acquired righteousness to render God favorable and 
kindly toward us? To this we can in general reply that he has achieved this 
for us by the whole course of his obedience." -- John Calvin

"By his obedience Christ truly acquired and merited grace for us with the 
Father, for as by the sin of Adam we were estranged from God and destined to 
perish, so by Christ's obedience we are received into favor as righteous" --  
John Calvin


One cannot make the claim that Calvin "understood the problem" of active 
obedience in John 8:1-11 when in fact John Calvin would have affirmed active 
obedience even with his understanding of John 8:1-11.

Chad Bresson
Xenia, OH
http://breusswane.blogspot.com