“This is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” Jeremiah 23:6
“…… to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” II Peter 1:1
Present day evangelicals tend to believe that the fierce Calvinist-Arminian controversy of the eighteenth century was merely a question of whether God chose the elect or the elect chose God. This is an …
Posts Tagged Imputed Righteousness
… repent on hearing the gospel and then they need the (weakened) law to teach them the way of righteousness. Huntington, however, combined both Melanchthon’s and Agricola’s teachings and believed both were essential features of the true gospel way. The law was necessary to show a man that he had sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. It showed man that he was accursed and a child of wrath. The work of the Holy Spirit was to create a new man in the believer and write the law of …
… demythologising theories, rejects the bulk of Old Testament teaching concerning Christ our Righteousness and builds a new rationale on a cut down version of the Ten Commandments which he finds in part of the Sermon on the Mount. He has now clearly fallen even deeper into the NCT pit.
Ransacking the Law in the search for righteousness
Chantry argues, like the Aristotelian Scholastics, that the Mosaic Law must be broken into its moral, ceremonial and civil parts. For …
Reply to Tony Bickley
Dec 31
… Bickley’s sin and mine. Moreover, he asks me to tell him how Christ rid himself of the sin imputed to Him. This question is best answered by the NT, especially Romans 8:16, “God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.” I would link this with 2 Cor. 5:21, “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” I learn from the NT that the sin imputed to Christ was our …
Imputation of Sin
Nov 14
A Letter to a Christian Newspaper:
Sir:
Regarding imputed sin. I believe the idea is thoroughly Scriptural, though acknowledging that there is much controversy concerning what is meant by the term. I understand it to mean that all those who die do so because of sin, even He who did not sin as the first Adam, i.e. the Second Adam. I base this on Romans 5.12 ff.. All men are thus imputed with sin, and all men thus die, though one man knew no sin …
… accounted the elect just before God in union with Christ from eternity by having Christ’s righteousness first imputed to them and then made conscious in them through God-given faith. This Tyndale taught in Pathway to the Holy Scriptures and Prologue to Romans. The Anglican Homily on Justification stresses that “justification is the office of God alone, and is not a thing which we render unto Him, but which we receive of Him.” For Cranmer, faith acts on but not prior to …
… and transforming justification through the divine agency of adoption, forgiveness, new birth, imputed righteousness, the work of the Spirit and the indwelling of Christ. Thus, contrary to the declaration’s assertion, justification is a transforming activity of grace and not a mere legal declaration. It is an encounter with the life-giving God which gives us acceptance in the Beloved (Eph. 1:6), by making us holy and beloved ourselves (Col. 3:12) so that we become New Creatures (2 Cor. …
… Independent, Anglican and Baptist ministers. Huntington upheld the Biblical teaching of Christ’s imputed righteousness which Fuller rejected and Wesley often ridiculed. Huntington was a great winner of souls and preached to thousands. He was able to reap a prodigious harvest, especially in his old age. Andrew Fuller complained of the increased blessings and church growth in the churches associated with Huntington whilst his own association churches shrunk.
Huntington’s …
… Dear Brother: What is the difference between Gill’s ‘free declaration of peace and pardon, righteousness, life and salvation to poor sinners’ and the ‘free offer’ and ‘duty faith’ of those who deny outright that Gill appealed to all men everywhere to repent and believe the gospel? The difference is that Gill keeps to the gospel as fulfilling what the law could not do, namely provide ‘free grace’. Modern harsh critics of Gill such as friends of the Banner of Truth and …
… and publications. Hervey was particularly fond of Gill as he taught the sinner’s need of the imputed righteousness of Christ and Toplady loved Gill for the way he convicted Arminians of their faulty view of man. Hervey wrote of Gill who, “presents us with such rich and charming displays of the glory of Christ’s person, the freeness of His grace to sinners, and the tenderness of His love to the church.” What better report could be given of a Christian evangelist?
In order …
