Justification By Faith-What Does It Mean

[tigersnare]

Hey Brothers and Sisters, still new to the Doctrines, still learning, still connecting dots.

I'm hoping to learn from some of the more experience and mature in the faith. I think I finally understand and believe justification by faith...ALONE!

Share with me and others, your understanding, here is mine.

Based off of Romans 3: 21-25 and 5: 12-21.

We are imputed with the righteousness of God himself, through our faith. Said faith being a gift from God, and impossible to have without him first having regenerated us. Though we were born in sin, and a slave to it through Adam's disobediance, through Christ's perfect obdediance in life AND death, we are now free from sin and slave to righteouness.

So now we can surely approach God confidently having faith that Christ's rigtheousness is now credited as our own, and we are blameless and holy before our Father.

There is no boasting, we can never be in a more or less right standing with God by any good deeds, or works of merit. Everything we have, we owe to God's redemptive plan in Christ Jesus our Lord.

sola deo gloria

 

[Bulldog]

Hello tigersnare,

Here are some ones that I think are wonderful

Romans 4:4-8 Now to the one who works, his wages are not credited as a favor, but as what is due. But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessings on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: “BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED. BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT”.

Romans 5:1 Therefore having been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life” (John 5:24).​

God Bless

 

[cygnusx1]

The doctrine of the imputed Righteousness of Christ has recently come under attack.......happily John Piper has written an excellent book in defense of this wonderful and very precious truth.

Should We Abandon the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness?
Are Christians merely forgiven, or do they possess the righteousness of Christ? Recently the time-honored understanding of the doctrine of justification has come under attack. Many question how—or if—we receive the full righteousness of Christ.
Martin Luther said that if we understand justification “we are in the clearest light; if we do not know it, we dwell in the densest darkness.” And now, in this new and important book, John Piper accepts Luther’s challenge. He points out that we need to see ourselves as having been recipients of the imputation of Christ’s righteousness and therefore enjoy full acceptance with God and the everlasting inheritance of life and joy.
Piper writes as both a pastor and a scholar. His pastor’s heart is shown in his zeal for the welfare of the church. His careful scholarship is evident in each explanation and undergirds each conclusion. Does Christ’s lifelong record of perfect obedience to God get ‘credited’ to your account when you trust in Christ and are ‘justified’ by God? This has been the historic Protestant understanding of the ‘imputation of Christ’s righteousness,’ but John Piper warns that we are in danger of losing this doctrine today because of attacks by scholars within the evangelical camp. In response, Piper shows, in careful treatment of passage after passage, that the imputation of Christ’s righteousness to believers is clearly the teaching of the Bible, and if we abandon this doctrine we will also lose justification by faith alone. I am thankful to God for John Piper’s defense of this crucial doctrine.
Wayne Grudem
The Gospel must be defended in every generation. Today, as in the sixteenth century, the central issue is the imputation of Christ’s righteousness. John Piper clearly and powerfully proves this is the view of the Bible and not merely of orthodox Protestant theology. The church must say ‘No!’ to those who declare that imputation is passé. If imputation is passé, then so is the Gospel.
R. C. Sproul
This is certainly the most solid defense of the imputed righteousness of Christ since the work of John Murray fifty years ago. I’m delighted that Dr. Piper has established that important doctrine, not as a mere article from the confessional tradition, but on the solid foundation of God’s Word.
John Frame

http://www.discerningreader.com/1581344473.html

For a brief synopsis (it looks like quotes to me) here you have it...
http://www.antithesis.com/commentary/counted_righteous.html

http://theologue.info/imputationromaine.htm

 

[cygnusx1]

also you might like to read this page by William Romaine.....

http://theologue.info/imputationromaine.htm

 

[theseed]

But are we not justified by faith? And faith brings us into grace (Romans 5.1-2; Titus 3.7)? Are we not saved by faith? Absolutely, God has chosen faith to be the method whereby we receive justification, however, it is not the basis for justification. The sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the shedding of his blood, is the basis whereby we are justified. We are never relieved of our obligation to believe in Christ (John 3.16-17). But as we can see, faith is a work of the heart, which is produced by God (Psalm 51.10; Jeremiah 31.36; Ezekiel 36.26; Romans 10.9-13). “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the “word of Christ” or the “word of the LORD”—spoken by the evangelist (Romans 10.17; Ezekiel 37.4). Once we believe, we are justified by God’s given righteousness, and he is we are delivered from the wages of sin (Romans 6.23) In essence, faith is a work of grace began by God and is finished by God and mediated by Faith (Philippians. 1.6; Hebrews 12.2). It w as grace that taught “our heart to fear” and grace “that leads us home” (John Newton).

http://www.theseed.massah.org/v3(5)hear.htm