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Paul on the Cross: Reconstructing the Apostle’s Story of Redemption is unavailable, but you can change that!

Even as theologians have become more critical of classic theories of atonement, biblical scholars have continued to rely upon such theories as a basis for interpreting Paul’s teaching regarding salvation and the cross. In this vital volume, Brondos looks to the recent advances in New Testament scholarship to argue for an alternative understanding of Paul’s doctrine of salvation and the cross. ...

they, are guilty, it is said that God “acquits” them in spite of. their guilt.57 Justification, however, involves an acknowledgment or declaration on God’s part, not of innocence or guiltlessness (an idea that reflects the false notion that one has to be perfectly sinless in order to be declared righteous by God), but of righteousness; these must be distinguished from each other; While in part justification depends on God’s graciously accepting as righteous those who are not perfectly righteous,
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