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gifts of repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, thereby making them righteous in His sight. The main thing I have dropped from the Westminster definition is the idea of the imputation of Christ’s obedience to the believer. I have found this idea both unsupported in Scripture and unnecessary for preserving the core principles of the gospel. The rest of the Westminster definition I can gladly commend, choosing, however, to interpret the phrase, “and accounteth their persons righteous in his sight,” as meaning that God receives the justified as factually righteous (relationally), not just as “thought of as righteous” (ethically). 134
Conclusion So, with regard to the main inquiry of this work, we see that while the Westminster definition of justification is correct in all but its idea of the imputation of “the perfect obedience … of Christ,” the current doctrine of Alien Righteousness, on the other hand, — and precisely because that false idea of imputation is at its foundation — requires a complete overhaul to fit the biblical data. Here, then, are the main points of the doctrine of Alien Righteousness corrected to better reflect what Scripture tells us: 1. Justification is based upon faith, not works. Though the current doctrine of Alien Righteousness teaches that the ultimate basis for justification is perfect obedience, i.e., the presenting of a perfect record of ethical performance to God, we find that this idea is never taught in Scripture. Since justification is primarily a relational matter rather than an ethical one, it is based on a relational act rather than on an ethical record or judicial declaration of ethical compliance. The familiar biblical truth that we are “justified by faith” should never have been obscured by the discordant theory that we are ultimately “justified by works.” 299 2. Justification by our own works is impossible. This is the one tenet in the current doctrine of Alien Righteousness that is biblical and can stand unaltered. Every Evangelical will affirm that neither Torah observance nor any other pursuit of personal merit can justify us before God. “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast” (Eph 2.8-9). 3. As our Kinsman Redeemer, Jesus intervened as our substitute. The whole system of Federalism, with its idea that Jesus became our “federal head” who superseded Adam, is a man-made, biblically unsupported and superfluous doctrine. While there are instances of corporate responsibility in the biblical story (e.g., the story of Achan, Jos 7), and while the connection with Adam is superseded by the believers’ connection with Christ, Scripture 299 The idea of justification by works is an absurdity. If a man’s works are inadequate they cannot justify him; if a man’s works are adequate, he doesn’t need justification. God would not have, nor did He ever, decree a justification by works, except in the sense of eschatological “vindication.” 135
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¯ˉTitle Page Alien Righteousne
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Dedication To the glory of our Kin
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Table of Contents ABBREVIATIONS
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Abbreviations Abbreviations For
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Bibliographic Abbreviations ACCOS
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Preface In this book I urge my fel
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Synopsis T he central teaching of
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that we are truly righteous in God
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Faith In biblical usage, faith is
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elational (Gal 3.26), and argue tha
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and his enduring the penalty of the
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Grudem qualifies the above statemen
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had performed it ourselves. And so
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partaker of Christ through faith…
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his works, but again for Christ’s
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However, the man cannot remain nake
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Now, if we accept the premise that
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ecomes the ground of justification.
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the Father viewed it as belonging t
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7. Paul had a righteousness no
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with Christ’s righteousness are a
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ut in the sense that our sins are i
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Problems With The Doctrine Of
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And I investigated the case which I
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In the same chapter of the Revelati
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ones who come out of the great trib
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Then the king said to the servants,
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the parallels between Adam and Chri
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inherited Adam’s fallenness — a
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proposed something cannibalistic
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Kinship duty and privilege is
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distinctive Pauline meaning is ‘t
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he was our representative.” 119 N
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Fourthly when the “New Testament
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never connote something other than
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Indeed, at the first mention of “
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toward his sergeant. 141 In contras
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which underscores the polyvalence o
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God’s grace working within them,
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more of Christ’s merit — that s
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Furthermore, God is pleased to cred
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explicitly states that the righteou
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unrighteous” (1Pe 3.18), 165 the
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another, instilled from without. Th
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the Scholastic principle of persona
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us.” 187 Nor does the Bible say,
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Page 103 and 104: Rom 3.30: “… God who will justi
Page 105 and 106: e an efficient — not just an inst
Page 107 and 108: Secondly, faith — technically spe
Page 109 and 110: idea that only the object of faith,
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Page 113 and 114: around. “I’ve got some righteou
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Page 117 and 118: must conclude that justification an
Page 119 and 120: Evangelical emphasis upon the need
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Page 129 and 130: his account so that they are treate
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Page 133 and 134: Throughout Christ’s entire life o
Page 135 and 136: What Scripture Tells Us Explici
Page 137 and 138: sinned” (v. 12). Rom ch. 5 (with
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Page 151 and 152: Epilogue A doctrinal investigation
Page 153 and 154: that reconciled us to God (Rom 5.10
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Page 157 and 158: Glossary Alien Righteousness (Iu
Page 159 and 160: Evangelical, Evangelicalism In th
Page 161 and 162: Infused Righteousness (Iustitia
Page 163 and 164: written with the nominative case en
Page 165 and 166: Relational, Relational Righteousn
Page 167 and 168: Vulgate Short for vulgata editio/v
Page 169 and 170: Biographical Notes Albright, Wil
Page 171 and 172: Brondos, David A. An ordained Lu
Page 173 and 174: George, Timothy An ordained minis
Page 175 and 176: Ladd, George Eldon (1911-‐19
Page 177 and 178: Owen, John (1616-‐1683) Owen
Page 179 and 180: Scripture Index Gen 2.16-‐17
Page 181 and 182: Mic 6.6 .........................
Page 183 and 184: Rom 8.30 ........................
Page 185 and 186: Rev 3.2 .........................
Page 187 and 188: Bibliography Abernathy, David. An
Page 189 and 190: Gundry, Robert H. “The Nonimputat
Page 191 and 192: Snaith, Norman H. The Distinctive I
Page 193 and 194: Appendix 1: Interview of Rick
Page 195 and 196: Appendix 2: The Six Causes Of
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About The Author Roderick Gracia
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