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Justification is a word used in the Scriptures to mean that in Christ we are forgiven and actually made righteous in our living. Justification is not a once-for-all, instantaneous pronouncement guaranteeing eternal salvation, regardless of how wickedly a person might live from that point on.
righteousness. Then he suffered him. The World English Bible translates the passage as: But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him. The 1881 Westcott-Hort Greek text is: αποκριθεις δε ο ιησους ειπεν αυτω
Entering heaven alive (called by various religions "ascension", "assumption", or "translation") is a belief held in various religions. Since death is the normal end to an individual's life on Earth and the beginning of afterlife , entering heaven without dying first is considered exceptional and usually a sign of a deity 's special recognition ...
It is believed by the heads of the church that he is righteous, and has been made righteous, who is acquainted with the truths of faith from the doctrine of the church and from the Word, and consequently is in the trust and confidence that he is saved through the Lord's righteousness, and that the Lord has acquired righteousness by fulfilling ...
After the resurrection of all the dead, [42] and the change of those still living, [43] all nations shall be gathered before Christ, [44] and he will separate the righteous from the wicked. [45] Christ will publicly judge [ 46 ] all people by the testimony of their faith [ 47 ] – the good works [ 48 ] of the righteous in evidence of their ...
According to the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, the Harrowing of Hell was foreshadowed by Christ's raising of Lazarus from the dead prior to his own crucifixion. Christ's Descent into Limbo, woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, c. 1510 Russian icon of John the Baptist foretelling the descent of Christ to the righteous in Hades (17th century, Solovetsky ...
The imputation of Christ's active obedience is a doctrine within Lutheran and Reformed theology. It is based on the idea that God's righteousness demands perfect obedience to his law. By his active obedience, Christ has "made available a perfect righteousness by keeping the law that is imputed or reckoned to those who put their trust in him."
By sinning we were serving the devil until Christ came to dwell in us by faith. Then through Christ's strength and work in us, our sin was weakened, quenched, put to death, and taken away from us, so that we could live for righteousness. Christ is the one who brings about this righteousness in us, because without him we can do nothing. [7]