How was Jesus Christ justified?

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just
jəst/
adjective
  1. 1.
    based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair.
    "a just and democratic society"
    synonyms: fair, fair-minded, equitable, even-handed, impartial, unbiased, objective, neutral, disinterested, unprejudiced, open-minded, nonpartisan;
    honorable, upright, decent, honest, righteous, moral, virtuous, principled
    "a just and democratic society"

right
rīt/
adjective
  1. 1.
    morally good, justified, or acceptable.
    "I hope we're doing the right thing"
    synonyms: just, fair, proper, good, upright, righteous, virtuous, moral, ethical, honorable, honest;More

  2. 2.
    true or correct as a fact.
    "I'm not sure I know the right answer"
    synonyms: correct, accurate, exact, precise;
    proper, valid, conventional, established, official, formal
    "Mr. Hubert had the right answer"
The NT; with very little exception, was written in koinE Greek and translated for us into English. Greek thinking skills, through words, are NOT the same as English thinking skills, though words.

The grammatical inflection in Greek is like a precision Swiss watch. English is like a sundial at night. However, English has the largest dictionary in the world. It is possible then to express complex thoughts into English but, we are forced to use more than one word. So, our dictionary gets bigger and bigger.
 
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The righteousness by which we have been declared righteous is Christ's righteousness; it is the righteousness of Christ Himself that is ours by grace. Christ's righteousness is His own; He who was perfectly obedient, even to the point of death.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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The righteousness by which we have been declared righteous is Christ's righteousness; it is the righteousness of Christ Himself that is ours by grace. Christ's righteousness is His own; He who was perfectly obedient, even to the point of death.

-CryptoLutheran
"The righteousness by which we have been declared righteous is Christ's righteousness;"

Can you qualify that statement with chapter and verse?

"it is the righteousness of Christ Himself that is ours by grace."

Can you qualify that statement with chapter and verse?
 
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"The righteousness by which we have been declared righteous is Christ's righteousness;"

Can you qualify that statement with chapter and verse?

"it is the righteousness of Christ Himself that is ours by grace."

Can you qualify that statement with chapter and verse?

"But to one who without works trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness." - Romans 4:5

"If, because of the one man’s trespass, death exercised dominion through that one, much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness exercise dominion in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

Therefore just as one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all, so one man’s act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all. For just as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. But law came in, with the result that the trespass multiplied; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, just as sin exercised dominion in death, so grace might also exercise dominion through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
" - Romans 5:17-21

"For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit," - 1 Peter 3:18

It is Christ's righteousness that renders us righteous.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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The NT; with very little exception, was written in koinE Greek and translated for us into English. Greek thinking skills, through words, are NOT the same as English thinking skills, though words.

The grammatical inflection in Greek is like a precision Swiss watch. English is like a sundial at night. However, English has the largest dictionary in the world. It is possible then to express complex thoughts into English but, we are forced to use more than one word. So, our dictionary gets bigger and bigger.
So thinking like a Greek from that day, what would the word that was translated just or justification mean in their minds...?
 
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What those of the world describe as sin and what God describes as sin are sometimes two different things.
Jesus' teachings were accompanied by miracles.

Matthew 11:5 (WEB) the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

John 3:2 (WEB) The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
 
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The stickler here is that you said that Jesus died a "sinner".

if Jesus was a "sinner", He would've needed a Savior to die for HIS sins.

Jesus died for OUR sins. Not HIS.

I was giving you the grace to sort this out, brother, thus my comment.
The whole theory that Jesus needed to die as a substitute for sin is the problem. In the original Gospel salvation was by faith, God had/has free will to forgive without his God Son being killed.
 
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We are justified by faith in Christ. But how was Jesus Christ justified?
By his works. He was an Old Testament prophet who lived under the Mosaic Law. He lived perfectly under the law. He was proven just by the law proving both the law and the creation of man good, thus justifying God as well.
 
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How then was He righteously put to such an ignominious death?
Just like God the Son was willing to come down and live the life that we are expected to live, subject to Gods will, he was also willing to experience the death that man is expected to pass through. The entire incarnation was an act of Love for his creation AND a requirement for sovereignty of his own co-creation.

Man finds it difficult to swallow his pride, receive forgiveness and in turn forgive and love others; the pre-cross gospel. Pauls theoretical, short cut version, just belive that Jesus was an acceptable, clean sacrifice, is much easier.
 
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Just like God the Son was willing to come down and live the life that we are expected to live, subject to Gods will, he was also willing to experience the death that man is expected to pass through. The entire incarnation was an act of Love for his creation AND a requirement for sovereignty of his own co-creation.

Man finds it difficult to swallow his pride, receive forgiveness and in turn forgive and love others; the pre-cross gospel. Pauls theoretical, short cut version, just belive that Jesus was an acceptable, clean sacrifice, is much easier.

Why was it that the apostle Paul decided to change the gospel?
 
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Because he never knew what the original gospel was to begin with.
So you're (1) a time traveller who heard the preaching of rabbi Jesus and (2) you visited Paul and read his mind. Extraordinary claims, dude.
 
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