We must see that the righteousness of Christ that is transferred to
us is the righteousness He achieved by living under the Law for
thirty-three years without once sinning. Jesus had to live a life of
obedience before His death could mean anything. He had to acquire, if
you will, merit at the bar of justice. Without His life of sinless
obedience, Jesus’ atonement would have had no value at all. We need to
see the crucial significance of this truth; we need to see that not only
did Jesus die for us, He lived for us.
Roman Catholics call this concept a legal fiction, and they recoil
from it because they believe it casts a shadow on the integrity of God
by positing that God declares to be just people who are not just. In
response, the Reformers conceded that this concept would be a legal
fiction if imputation were fictional. Continue at R. C. Sproul
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