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Originally Posted by greenbaggins  Out of curiosity, why are you seeming to defend him? |
I am not defending him, I am just trying to understand what he actually advocates.
As you note, that quote is refering to the Father's righteousness (i.e. the Judge's) not Christ's. To say that he rules out the imputation of the Son's righteousness in arguing that righteousness cannot be transferred is, in my mind, a misreading of him, especially when he has stated that
"the accomplishment of Jesus Christ is reckoned to all those who are ‘in him’" and goes on to say,
"This is the truth which has been expressed within the Reformed tradition in terms of ‘imputed righteousness’, often stated in terms of Jesus Christ having fulfilled the moral law and thus having accumulated a ‘righteous’ status which can be shared with all his people. As with some other theological problems, I regard this as saying a substantially right thing in a substantially wrong way".
NTW seems to be noting that whilst the righteousness cannot be transferred we get it by being placed into Christ.
