2 THE CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGE §1. DEFINITION AND AIM I begin with a definition. By imputation I am referring to the act in which God counts sinners to be righteousness through their faith in Christ on the basis of Christ’s perfect “blood and righteousness,”1 specifically the righteousness that Christ accomplished by his perfect obedience in life and death. My aim in this book is to give exegetical foundation to the historic Protestant teaching that the basis of our justification through faith is
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