Does Justification Means

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Statement Of Topic Justification means that something has been put right in the sight of something else. What this means for Christians is that if a believer has been justified, the believer is now seen as righteous in the eyes of God. Justification seems like it can only be attained when the Lord comes back to bring his people home with him. The world is not right without God and so it is challenging to believe that people or the world is in a justified state at the present time.
Philosophical Foundations In order for someone to be justified, they have to go through the process of becoming right with God. The Council of Trent describes justification as being a change from a fallen child of Adam to a grace-given, adopted child of the …show more content…

For an individual, justification is a once and done work. According to the law, it cannot be undone but rather the believer is forevermore a child of God. Our justification means an eternal state of forgiveness and acceptance with God. All legal claims against the individual are satisfied and therefore nothing else can ever stake a claim on the individual’s life except for God. In Romans 4:25, Paul tells us that we have the righteousness of God in justification. Through his righteousness we are given eternal forgiveness and acceptance from him.
Justification is a two-fold doctrine. Sinners are forgiven because of Christ’s righteous and the pardon covers all sins that have occurred and sins that are yet to come. The second part is that the sinful person is accepted into the family of God. Each adopted child becomes an heir to the throne of God. Romans 8:17 talks about how if a child is adopted into the kingdom, then they become an heir with Christ and can also share in his glory. 1 Peter 1:4 goes on to say that the inheritance of the adopted child is and will be kept in …show more content…

This has lead way to feelings and emotions taking place of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Before the first church founders, the principle of justification was as accepted as much as in the day of Martin Luther. The early interpretations of justification were not as outlined or critically studied as in the time of the Reformation because the idea of justification was commonly acknowledged in the early church and was not contested because it was considered to be a Christian truth. Typically heretics push the church to deal with certain matters throughout its existence. The early church saw conflicts but no more than the conflicts that were over the trinity. Even in the thick of those debates and discussions, the idea of justification by faith was still taught and accepted as biblical truth. There was no need and still no need to argue over what is accepted as biblical truth. Augustine goes on to say this: But we know that God does not hear sinners: but if any man is a worshiper of God and does his will, that man God will hear. He still speaks as one only anointed. For God does listen to sinners too. If God did not listen to sinners, it would have been all in vain for the publican to cast down his eyes to the ground and strike his breast saying: "Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner." And that confession merited justification, just as the blind man merited

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