Sinclair Ferguson: Imputed Righteousness

Desiring God 2008 National Conference Speaker Interview: Sinclair Ferguson

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[radicallydepraved]

@BBBradH This video is on Imputed Righteousness not Imputed Faith. Though this righteousness is only based on FAITH in Christ Alone (Romans 3,5,10; 2Cor5:21 "he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."), even FAITH is a gift from God - "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast (Ephesians 2:8-9)."

[BBBradH]

Each of us will be judged according to our own faith, the faith of another will not be credited to anyone. It was Abraham's own faith which God regarded as righteous, even though he was not perfect. Trusting God (which is Biblical faith) is always pleasing to God. Imputed righteousness is an evil, false and unjust doctrine.

[epistemaniac]

well the "why" is because the bible teaches that without the shedding of blood (legal sacrifice) there is no remission for sins, and that God is indeed wrathful towards sin and sinners. God becoming a man, living a perfect life, and then bearing the penalty due to sinners is not a loophole, but is the culmination of the eternal decree and plan of God. I don't see anything in scripture about recapitulating our human natures. God is never bound by His own law in the sense that it stands over Him.

[scottidee]

Boooo YA !

[Anastasis777]

@ackenda - Why do you think that it either has to be penal substitution or what the Jews were looking for in a Messiah? That's a false dichotomy. One can believe that Christ became incarnate to recapitulate our human natures by uniting them with the divine nature and that he entered into death in order to defeat it without having to believe in a legal sacrifice being made to a wrathful god who is so bound by what can only be called divine necessity that he has to find loopholes in his own law.

[ackenda]

@Anastasis777 - I guess I mean, if "satisfaction doctrine, penal substitution and imputed righteousness are mindless at best and evil at worst," what is the gospel? Why did Christ not come as the apocalyptic understanding among the Jews -- straight to earth as a king to rule? Why did he live a human life beginning at birth and why go to the cross?

[Anastasis777]

Why in the world was that comment flagged as spam? I was not advertising anything or posting something akin to a spambot. Do you prefer to censor comments rather than engage them?

[ackenda]

@Anastasis777 - If you're not a Christian, why comment?

[Anastasis777]

Imputed righteousness is heresy.

[carprivateer]

It's not often now-a-days that you hear the Truth.