status before God. It also draws in other vital elements of the gospel including such concepts as substitution, propitiation and imputation, elements which are either missing or undervalued in some modern treatments of the subject. In other words, there is, very definitely, a biblical doctrine of justification, not merely a biblical concept of justification.1 The Bible not only presents us with the fact that sinners are justified by God’s grace and the results and implications of that legal position,
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