Forensic justification is, therefore, an act that God does outside of man. It is the judicial pronouncement of God about a sinful man that, as a result of placing faith in Christ, he now stands before God having been given the status of justness. Now the Roman Catholic Church considers this type of justification a legal fiction because it involves God calling a person “just” who in and of himself is not just. The question Catholicism raises is, “How can God declare a man to be just when, in fact,