An Explanation of Infused Righteousness
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- This clip is taken from a Q&A podcast where I answered a question about infused and imputed righteousness, and explained the difference between these two ideas.
Here is the original podcast video:
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Two kinds of righteousness. Some Lutherans unfortunately deny it.
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I believe in imputed righteousness.
I give christ my sins in trust and repentance and christ gives me his righteousness.
That's what I believe: there is some infused righteousness, but (1) it is never our righteousness but Christ's in me and (2) the indwelling Holy Spirit is holy and righteous, and lives in us, and I am God's temple. So yes there is a sense in which there is also infused righteousness.
Thank you for clarification.
When did the Catholic Church define/make doctrine - infused righteousness? Council of Trent?
How can you know you have enough good works or sin infrequently enough such that you have sufficient faith alone in Christ? If there is no bar of enough, what on earth is James 2 saying?
I would say it's not a question of "what's enough" it's if there's a change at all. Are you following Christ's commands at all?
@@child_of_weakness7600 even pagans can keep the law of God (read Romans 2). So how could you tell the difference between a regenerated Christian and a pagan?
To more fully understand infused righteousness, one should read Aquinas.
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Righteousness is not infused or imputed. What was imputed(accredited) to Abraham was what God had promised him.
If you write out a ledger it would look like this.
God owing Abraham a seed on the left side of the page.
Abraham owed a seed on the right side of the page.
The way this ledger came into existance is by the "function" of faith.
For example if I promised you ten dollars and you took me at my word (believed me)
The only righteousness on trial now would be mine ( being truthful giving you the ten dollars or untruthful by not giving it)
The ledger is only squared away when God performs righteousness (which is all he can do thus ensuring the promise)by giving Abraham the seed promised and all other commitments of the promise fufilled.
Now read the scripture again.
Abraham believed God and it ("it" being the promise) was imputed for righteousness.
If you read all other sciptures in the bible where God promises and someone believes that promise this is how it is fit.All of them bar none.
Also "There is none righteous no not one"also now works,It would fail if Abraham was counted or infused or whatever how he was righteous before God.lol.And I have yet to see His word fail
" Let God be True and every man a liar". Being truthful is an act that flows from righteousness , being untruthful is an act that flows from unrighteousness.
God was not only promising Abraham a seed , He was going to exhibit His own righteousness to him by fufilling the promise .
The flip side to the coin is if Abraham did not believe God
God does not have to perform anything
No seed is given
Sarah stays barren
Issac is not born ... etc etc
So now would God "impute" unrighteousness to Abraham because he did not believe?
Some how I dont think so 😁
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Righteousness is infused, not imputed. Abraham indeed received a forensic declaration (God is a judge after all), but the declaration was not a legal fiction. Namely, using Luther's terms, that God wouldn't label a dunghill as a snowball. This is the problem of modern day Protestants: they are essentially saying that God is a liar -> that God is justifying people (attributing righteousness) to people who are unrighteous. God is NOT a liar.
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"Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness," Romans 4:4-5
God justifies the ungodly, is God a liar?
@@heavenbound7-7-7-7 if they remain ungodly even after justification, (as Protestants believe) than that would be a false justification. Simple as that.
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But how can God justify ungodly because that would be a false justification?
How can a sinner be justified before God?
@@heavenbound7-7-7-7 sinners are infused with grace. Our sins are "blotted out" (Psalm 1:3; Isaiah 43:25; 44:22; Acts 3:19) and “washed away” ((Psalm 1:4, 9; Isaiah 1:18; Ezekiel 36:25; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Revelation 1:5). God doesn’t merely “cover” your unrighteous. He removes it. He makes us white as snow (psalm 51, Isaiah 1:18).
Using Luther’s analogy of human beings as cow dung, God does not merely cover us with snow. God transforms us inside out into snow. We become a new creation (2 Cor 5:17). We are made new by the Spirit (Titus 3:6). God is not a liar.
You just gave an argument for purgatory
Not at all.
@@KnightFel Infused righteousness? Of course the achievement of inherent purity is the RC argument for purgatory.
No Bible here!
What do you mean? I hear Scripture all over the place.