Consequently, God no longer sees believers as they really are but is blinded by imputed righteousness.

Those who hold to the doctrine of imputed righteousness do not agree with the hermeneutical moves made above.

Technically this is known as 'imputed righteousness'.

There is some dispute as to the origin of the reformation era concept of imputed righteousness.

According to imputed righteousness, the righteousness by which humans are made acceptable to God, remains "alien."

Those who disagree with the Protestant doctrine of imputed righteousness disagree on the following grounds.

The necessity of imputed righteousness stems precisely from there being nothing internal onto which God's grace can be fused.

The doctrine of imputed righteousness is at the center of the rift in the visible church between many different denominations.

John Wesley believed that imparted righteousness worked in tandem with imputed righteousness.

Wesley insisted that imputed righteousness must become imparted righteousness.

Put starkly, the Roman Catholic Church rejects the teaching of imputed righteousness as being a present reality.

Imputed Righteousness Defended by William Romaine, preached in London, 1759.

The Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness by John Gill.

Calvin also quotes him in setting forth his doctrine of a forensic alien righteousness, or as it is commonly called imputed righteousness.

Thus there is no instantaneous salvation by paying lip service to a belief in Christ, at which time "imputed righteousness" is transferred to the believer.

Those opposed to the Lutheran understanding of imputed righteousness contend that this is an error supported only by the misunderstanding of three Greek roots.

The teaching of imputed righteousness is a signature doctrine of the Lutheran and Reformed traditions of Christianity.

Imputed righteousness is the righteousness of Jesus credited to the Christian, enabling the Christian to be justified.

His main criticism was that Darby and the Plymouth Brethren rejected the vicarious purpose of Christ's obedience as well as imputed righteousness.

In responding, Lapide sees the selfless sacrifice of the Jewish prophets as synonymous with Israel becoming acceptable through the imputed righteousness of God.

They then note that this imputed righteousness is particularly that of the second member of the Trinity, Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Corinthians 1:30).

The argument against imputed righteousness in the here-and-now is that the Gospel shows "justice is done by Christ's faithfulness" in doing the work of atonement on the cross.

'The Incomprehensibleness of imputed Righteousness for Justification by Human Reason, till enlightened by the Spirit of God,' London, 1692.

Right standing before God is then due to an alien or imputed righteousness received by faith, not by personal faithfulness which is the fruition of salvation and not its ground.

A Treatise of Justification, Including On the Natural Righteousness of God, and Imputed Righteousness of Christ (1654)