boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.’ ” We see, then, that we are justified the way all people of all times have been justified: through faith. As James I. Packer states in his book Concise Theology: God’s justifying judgment seems strange, for pronouncing sinners righteous may appear to be precisely the unjust action on the judge’s part that God’s own law forbade (Deut. 25:1, Prov. 17:15). Yet it is