THE IMPUTATION OF GRACE

The Bible is clear that righteous is imputed to us by God's grace.  Contrary to the theory of some, God did this in the Old Testament as well as the New.

This Imputation can also be 'un-done'.


Old Testament
Genesis 15:6 -- And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Romans 4:3 -- For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

Romans 4:6 -- Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,


New Testament
2 Corinthians 5:21 -- For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Romans 4:24 -- But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;


Anti-Imputation
Ezekiel 33:10-20
10: Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
11: Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
12: Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth
13: When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
14: Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
15: If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
16: None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
17: Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
18: When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
19: But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
20: Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.


This is the message that rings throughout the Bible, and it is said ever so clearly by Ezekiel! If the wicked turn from his sin, he will live. If the righteous turn to sin, he will die.

If God's imputed righteousness can be "undone" in the Old Testament, why not the New as well?



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