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The righteousness of God is His alone. By His grace and for His own sake, he RECKONS us to have a righteous status. If you can, then bring your SCRIPTURAL arguments against Tom Wright. Tom Wright: If you want to understand forensic justification you must go to the law-court and find how the metaphor works. In the Jewish lawcourt, Paul would have known, there is no Director of Public Prosecutions; there is a judge, with a plaintiff and a defendant appearing before him. When the case has been heard, the judge finds in favour of one party and against the other. Once that has happened, the vindicated party possesses the status ‘righteous’ – not itself a moral statement, we note, but a statement of how things stand in terms of the now completed lawsuit. As someone said to me yesterday, it all depends what you mean by ‘righteous’. But this STATUS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE JUDGE. For the judge to be righteous, it is necessary that he try the case fairly, refuse bribes or other favouritism, uphold the law, and take special note for the helpless, the widows, and so on. When either the plaintiff or the defendant is declared ‘righteous’ at the end of the case, there is no sense that in either case the judge’s own righteousness has been passed on to them, by imputation, impartation, or any other process. What then about the ‘imputed righteousness’?...God does indeed ‘reckon righteousness’ to those who believe. But this is not, for Paul, the righteousness either of God or of Christ, except in a very specialised sense to which I shall return. There are ONLY TWO PASSAGES which can be invoked in favour of the imputed righteousness being that of God or Christ. The first proves too much, and the second not enough. The first is 1 Corinthians 1.30f....The second passage is 2 Corinthians 5.21, which as I have argued elsewhere is not, as a matter of good exegesis, a statement of soteriology but of apostolic vocation. ntwrightpage/Wright_New_Perspectives.htm

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