Justification by Christ's Imputed Righteousness

Romans 5:9. '.....Justified by His blood.'
That is not to diminish the importance of Christ's imputed righteousness, but the word 'only' in the title of the thread is wrong.

 

Greetings,

The word "only" in the title is not wrong, it is part of the whole Justification process by Jesus Christ as stated:

It is by and through His shed blood we are cleansed and forgiven of our sins, as the scriptures mentioned below also agrees with the said title of this Thread.

Rom 5:18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Rom 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Only through the living sacrifice of Jesus Christ and His Righteousness by the shedding of His Preceious blood, are we sanctified....Justified.......He stood in our stead, He is Our Justified Life.....nothing of and from oursleves.....ALL HIM.

The Lord bless you.....

 

Here I can agree with you. The OP seemed to be diminishing the vicarious suffering of our Lord on the cross. In fact, His 'active' and 'passive' obedience are all one glorious satisfaction of the justice of God.

 

Greetings,

The OP did NOT "seem to be diminishing the vicarious suffering of our Lord on the cross". What he stated was very clear and understood.
It was your imagination that thought he "diminished" which lead to a false assumption that he erred.

 

@Martin Marprelate @CalTech @KenH

The OP is a quote from a sermon by Joseph Irons. It is a snip from a bigger message. Since we do not have the whole sermon, we cannot know the full theology of the preacher. He may have already expressed what Martin presented and had more to say than the quoted OP provides to us.

I suggest, before an argument persists, that the full sermon by Joseph Irons would need to be read (heard) before a debate began.

 

Much better! Thank you for clarifying.

 

...kinda like the word 'alone' in the Calvinist sola, 'Justification by Faith Alone'. It's wrong.

 

K. That doesn't change the fact that the Calvinist sola, 'Justification by Faith Alone', is wrong.

 

Not only is it wrong, it's anti-Biblical.

Justification by faith is incomplete.

Justification by faith alone is anti-Biblical.

 

No redneck, it's not anti-biblical. What we must acknowledge is that faith is from God and not from man. Therefore when we say we are justified by faith alone, we are saying that God alone justifies us by the shed blood of Jesus, in which the faith God gave us is placed.

There is no other justification except in Christ alone and by the faith God gives us alone. If you add human works to justification, then you have desecrated God's grace and are truly anti-biblical,just like the Roman Catholic Church.

 

"Alone" is not there in the scripture, 'Calvinists' have added it to the gospel. Paul's contention with the works system of the Jew's religion was the same as the Reformers struggle with Catholicism, and not once did he emphasize 'faith alone', which has morphed into the horrendous hardline restrictivism that all who have not heard the gospel will burn in hell, babies included, and just as bad there has evolved an irrational aversion to any mention of works as an element of our justification which is clearly taught in the scriptures. You 'faith aloners' have 'gone to seed' with justification by faith.

 

...from what?