Justification By Faith In The Reformed Confessions
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Date: 2023-08-20

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Audio and Multimedia (103)
 
Classic Essays on Justification (76)
 
Contemporary Essays & Articles (174)
 
James Vs. Paul (27)
 
Justification & Sanctification (50)
 
New Perspective on Paul (26)
 
Roman Catholic Teaching on Justification (35)
 
Sermons (30)
 
The Imputation of Christ’s Righteousness (78)
Related Topic: Sola Fide

Justification is an instantaneous legal act of God in which he (1) thinks of our sins as forgiven and Christ’s righteousness as belonging to us, and (2) declares us to be righteous in his sight.
Wayne Grudem Systematic Theology (pg. 723)

Scripture, when it treats of justification by faith, leads us in a very different direction. Turning away our view from our own works, it bids us look only to the mercy of God and the perfection of Christ. The order of justification which it sets before us is this: first, God of his mere gratuitous goodness is pleased to embrace the sinner, in whom he sees nothing that can move him to mercy but wretchedness, because he sees him altogether naked and destitute of good works. He, therefore, seeks the cause of kindness in himself, that thus he may affect the sinner by a sense of his goodness, and induce him, in distrust of his own works, to cast himself entirely upon his mercy for salvation. This is the meaning of faith by which the sinner comes into the possession of salvation, when, according to the doctrine of the Gospel, he perceives that he is reconciled by God; when, by the intercession of Christ, he obtains the pardon of his sins, and is justified; and, though renewed by the Spirit of God, considers that, instead of leaning on his own works, he must look solely to the righteousness which is treasured up for him in Christ.
John Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion (3.11.16)

The phrase “in him” I have preferred to retain, rather than render it “by him” because it has in my opinion more expressiveness and force. For we are enriched in Christ, inasmuch as we are members of his body, and are engrafted into him: nay more, being made one with him, he makes us share with him in everything that he has received from the Father.
John Calvin Commentary on 1 Corinthians 1:5

The Doctrine of Justification: An Outline of its History in the Church; And of Its Exposition From Scripture (eBook)
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Web Page by J I Packer
 
Imputed Righteousness: The Evangelical Doctrine
Web Page by R C Sproul
 
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Web Page by J V Fesko
 
Counted Righteous in Christ
PDF by John Piper
 
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Web Page by Philip Ryken
 
Justification and the Diminishing Work of Christ
Web Page by John Piper
 
The Legal, or Forensic Character of Justification
Web Page by S Lewis Johnson
 
Sola Fide: The Reformed Doctrine of Justification
Web Page by J I Packer
 
Abraham Reassessed Theologically
Web Page by T D Alexander
 
Justification: Still the Radical Truth
Web Page by Dr J Ligon Duncan III
 
Lutheran Love and the contemporary Reformed soteriological controversy
Web Page by William B Evans
 
Justification by Faith: Distortions of the Doctrine
PDF by Philip E Hughes
 
The Doctrine of Justification in Luther
PDF by G W Bromiley
 
Justification by Faith: The Reinstatement of the Doctrine Today
PDF by Alan M. Stibbs
 
Calvin's Doctrine of Justification
PDF by T.H.L. Parker
 
God's Character, Our Resting Place
Web Page by Horatius Bonar
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith (eBook)
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Christ became a curse for sinners. We become blessed in Christ (Galatians 3:13). He “sealed my pardon with His blood” by bearing our guilt and punishment. He grounds our final righteousness before God by His own perfect obedience.  Consequently, justification not only deals with past guilt, but also secures for us a complete and final (or eschatological, to use the technical term) righteousness before God. This is what it means to be justified by faith.

Assured by God, ed. Burk Parsons, P&R, 2006, p. 92. Used by Permission.
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