What is the Doctrine of Justification?

[@PizzaJet1984]

This is fantastic. I myself have been looking into imputed vs infused righteousness and this had great information on the topic.

[@joedan5366]

another day to grow in wisdom, and truth Praise God for another day to worship him

[@EloquentEagle]

Could you consider making a video about mortal sin? Thanks for your amazing content-greetings from Sweden!

[@DrJordanBCooper]

Yes.

[@hughmccann919]

Justification is by Grace alone through Faith alone in Christ alone.

[@matthewbroderick6287]

@@hughmccann919 if you wish to enter into life, then keep the commandments! It is by WORKS and NOT BY FAITH ALONE that we are JUSTIFIED! Peace always in Jesus Christ our Great and Kind God and Savior, He whose Flesh is true food and Blood true drink!

[@mikelyons2831]

​@@matthewbroderick6287Sooo, do you keep them? We know our spouses & household the most/best & those we spend a lot of time with (college roommates, in my case as an old dude in my 60s) and NONE of my very solid Bible reading-believing, Christ sharing, church attending family & close friends KEEP the commandments... but you can??

[@AbebaDamesa-wc7ls]

I'm here from Ethiopia Lutheran church.

[@heavenbound7-7-7-7]

In Finnish language justification and righteousness are the same word.

[@WeakestAvenger]

I like to read it in English sonetimes as "righteous-ification."

[@Robert-r4s4c]

Justification is the gracious action of God which frees us from sin and communicates the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ.

[@Thatoneguy-pu8ty]

Great video. Thank you Dr. Cooper.

[@LivingWaterEternal]

Wow, this is what happens when I miss watching for awhile. Great hair and fits you perfect!!! A+++ presentation. Thank you.

[@Brigitte619]

If justification were not “extra nos”, from outside ourselves, we could not have faith because we would have to look to ourselves instead of trusting the Lord. Trusting someone else means trusting them completely. Your faith might be weak but don’t start trusting in yourself to become righteous. Let your faith be strengthened through word and sacrament and hearing the Gospel proclaimed to you and believing that word. That’s why we go to church every Sunday and read our Bibles at home, too, and speak it to each other…

[@hughmccann919]

Saving faith is understanding and assent. (notitia & assensus)

[@jeffryan5302]

The demons believe and shutter 😱

[@nerdtalk1789]

@@jeffryan5302they don’t assent or trust

[@stephenbailey9969]

N.T. Wright's book "Justification" has a very informative analysis.

[@jlou.316]

Thank you so much😊

[@jlou.316]

I am recently Lutheran, and I am in the process of unlearning other evangelical structures. I am both grateful to be on this learning journey, and sad before God for the errors I believed where "Gospel truth." I feel the Lord is rebuilding my theological understanding. It's o.k though, to know He's done it all, I am at rest. How amazing is that Grace. I am keen to learn all I can.. Please keep sharing and teaching, soo needed.

[@Outrider74]

Nice use of the Ithorians!

[@lisajones7756]

Thank you Dr Cooper, can please explain the concept of "Saving Faith" and "Reflective Faith" apparently Fransis Pieper and other Lutherans held this concept. Pr Bryan Wolfmueller has recently done a couple of talks on this, one was on Issues Etc Myths About Lutheranism 11/21/24 (starting at 13:30 minutes) and I was wondering were justification fits in with Reflective Faith.

[@jeffryan5302]

Dr. J, please compare and contrast this again with the Roman Catholic view ( Trent, V1&2), etc. !

[@collettewhitney2141]

@Jordan cooper. Long time no see. Excellent content. It looks like i have a allot off catching up god bless you

[@simonskinner1450]

Justification is judicial approval, righteousness is judicial approval, declaring or imputing someone as righteous because they have the righteousness of God.

[@robr.5646]

Common JB Cooper W

[@blank-964]

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[@nilsalmgren4492]

Justification is only for those who have been found righteous on the day of the Lord. So the real question is who will be found righteous on the day of the Lord. Will it only be lutherans? Will it only be certain kinds of lutherans or will it be all lutherans? Answer that and then you will see the importance of Lutheran justification.

[@Thatoneguy-pu8ty]

No, justification is for those with faith. To loosely quote CFW Walther, may it be far from us to assume our church is the only one in which one can be saved.

[@nilsalmgren4492]

@Thatoneguy-pu8ty If Justification is for all children of God and I believe it is, then a purely Lutheran view on Justification is unimportant. In fact Biblical view of Justification is not Lutheran but Biblical.

[@justfromcatholic]

According to the Reformers: Justification is by faith alone and through Justification an exchange took place between believers and Christ, known as double imputation. The believers got Christ’ righteousness imputed on them as if that righteousness were theirs while they remain sinners. Christ got believers’ entire sins (past, present, future) imputed on Him as if those sins were His while He remains sinless. There is no limit of either amount or type of believers' sins imputed on Him. Christ willingly offered Himself to take the punishment of those sins by dying on the cross - God punished Christ for the sins of believers. Problems with the above teaching: 1. The phrase "justified by faith" appears four times in New Testament (Rom. 3:28, 5:1, Gal. 2:16, 3:24). New Testament was written in Greek and the one in Rom. 3:28 is in Greek passive present tense while the rest are in Greek passive aorist tense . Both tenses do not indicate once for all justification. If Scripture teaches faith-alone justification, then the Holy Spirit would inspire Paul to write the phrase "justified by faith" in Greek passive perfect tense. Unlike that of English Greek perfect tense indicates the action described by the verb (to be justified) was completed in the past with continuing effect to the present. 2. Scripture denies double imputation in Eze. 18:20 (ESV): “The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.” 3. Scripture says that we lose righteousness by sinning or we cannot be righteous and sinner at the same time. Eze. 33:13 (ESV) says: “Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die." Death here refers to hell, not physical death. 4. By declaring believers as righteous who remain sinners and punishing Christ for the sins He did not commit on the cross, God did abomination according to what Scripture says in Pro. 17:15 (ESV): “He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD.” The Catholic teaching on Justification: Justification is on-going process that includes faith and sanctification. Through Justification we are transformed (PASSIVE) by grace from our unrighteous state to righteous one, through infusion of the righteousness of God through Christ in us. We do not and cannot become righteous by our own effort and neither we can be righteous and sinners at the same time. Therefore, our entire sins (past, present, and future) must be forgiven and washed away - they are neither imputed on Christ nor infused in Him. Christ willingly offered Himself to die on the cross to atone the sins of ALL MEN, but God did not punish Him for those sins.

[@Aleks-JesusismyLORD]

The cup that Jesus agonized over in the Garden of Gethsemane holds the mystery of his suffering and death. He had left most of his disciples sitting in the garden and had taken his inner circle-Peter, James, and John-further into the garden with him. He began to be very troubled and said to these three: “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; tarry ye here, and watch with me” (Matt. 26:38). Then he left them, and, going deeper into the garden, he fell on his face and prayed: “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.”

[@Aleks-JesusismyLORD]

Ah well, if you say that God did not punish Jesus on the cross for our sins, the punishment is still on you and you are on your way to hell ?! That's why you are wrong in the Catholic faith and believe in purgatory. So now it is up to you and not to Jesus.

[@justfromcatholic]

@@Aleks-JesusismyLORD Jesus did die on the cross to atone the sins of all men (Rom. 5:18) - He did bear and die for their sins (1 Cor. 15:3, Gal. 1:4, 1 Pe. 3:18) but without their sins imputed on Him. His single atonement was prefigured in the Old Covenant in the once-a-year atonement made by the Hight Priest. According to Leviticus 16 once a year the High Priest chose ONE OF TWO GOATS AS sin offering (or sin, חַטָּאָת) to atone the sins of all Israelites (Lev. 16:8-9). That goat was sacrificed, and its blood sprinkled on and before the mercy-seat (Exo. 25:16-20, Lev. 16:15) and on the horns of the altar (Lev. 16:18). The sins of all Israelites were imputed on the second goat, that was not sacrificed but released in the wilderness as scapegoat (Lev. 16:8, 21-22). In the New Covenant Christ is the High Priest (Heb. 4:14, 9:11) and He offered Himself as sin offering or sin (Heb. 9:12). While He died to atone our sins on the cross, our sins are not imputed on Him, just like the sins of all Israelites are not imputed on the first goat in Lev. 16:8-9. If that goat in the Old Testament was able to atone the sins of all Israelites without their sins imputed on it, certainly Christ can atone the sins of all men without their sins imputed on Him.

[@justfromcatholic]

@@Aleks-JesusismyLORD Christ single atonement on the cross was prefigured in the Old Covenant in the yearly atonement made by the High Priest. According to Leviticus 16 once a year the High Priest chose one of two goats as sin offering (or sin, חַטָּאָת) to atone the sins of all Israelites (Lev. 16:8-9). That goat was sacrificed, and its blood sprinkled on and before the mercy-seat (Exo. 25:16-20, Lev. 16:15) and on the horns of the altar (Lev. 16:18). The sins of all Israelites were imputed on the second goat, that was not sacrificed but released in the wilderness as scapegoat (Lev. 16:8, 21-22). In the New Covenant Christ is the High Priest (Heb. 4:14, 9:11) and He offered Himself as sin offering or sin (Heb. 9:12). While He died to atone our sins on the cross, our sins are not imputed on Him, just like the sins of all Israelites are not imputed on the first goat in Lev. 16:8-9. If the goat in the Old Testament was able to atone the sins of all Israelites without their sins imputed on it, certainly Christ can atone the sins of all men without their sins imputed on Him.

[@justfromcatholic]

Aleks-JesusismyLord wrote: “Ah well, if you say that God did not punish Jesus on the cross for our sins, the punishment is still on you and you are on your way to hell ?! That's why you are wrong in the Catholic faith and believe in purgatory. So now it is up to you and not to Jesus.” Christ single atonement on the cross was prefigured in the Old Covenant in the yearly atonement made by the High Priest. According to Leviticus 16 once a year the High Priest chose one of two goats as sin offering (or sin, חַטָּאָת) to atone the sins of all Israelites (Lev. 16:8-9). That goat was sacrificed, and its blood sprinkled on and before the mercy-seat (Exo. 25:16-20, Lev. 16:15) and on the horns of the altar (Lev. 16:18). The sins of all Israelites were imputed on the second goat, that was not sacrificed but released in the wilderness as scapegoat (Lev. 16:8, 21-22). In the New Covenant Christ is the High Priest (Heb. 4:14, 9:11) and He offered Himself as sin offering or sin (Heb. 9:12). While He died to atone our sins on the cross, our sins are not imputed on Him, just like the sins of all Israelites are not imputed on the first goat in Lev. 16:8-9. If the goat in the Old Testament was able to atone the sins of all Israelites without their sins imputed on it, certainly Christ can atone the sins of all men without their sins imputed on Him.

[@simonskinner1450]

A believer is subjectively justified in baptism, but objectively justified when judged. I have Ytube videos 'Myths in so-called Christianity' for NT truth.

[@GlenKStraughn]

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[@keithshedron4351]

Growth in our sanctification is the most damning thing I have heard in ages. Is our justification, in Christ, perfect but our sanctification (holiness) is not?

[@heavenbound7-7-7-7]

I assume you believe sinless perfectionism?

[@heavenbound7-7-7-7]

We are perfectly holy in Chris, but we can also grow in the likeness of Christ.

[@DrJordanBCooper]

There is a perfection in both holiness and righteousness which is a present possession of all Christians in Christ (1 Cor. 1:30), but also a sense of imperfection and growth in our holiness and righteousness in this world (Heb. 10:14).

[@keithshedron4351]

@@DrJordanBCooper I hope you will bear with me on this as I see a learning opportunity for myself. Am I off base in the following? We have 2 natures, old and new. The old nature cannot be fixed, it is totally sinful. Our new nature is perfect before God, not lacking in any way. So, where does growth in holiness come from? Our old nature or new? Do I misunderstand our natures and standing before God?

[@keithshedron4351]

@@heavenbound7-7-7-7 Yes, I do. In baptism, God has removed my sins as far as the east is from the west. In Christ, I am sinless and blameless before God. God himself has declared me righteous.

[@matthewbroderick6287]

It is the DOERS OF THE LAW that are JUSTIFIED BEFORE God, for it is by WORKS and NOT BY FAITH ALONE that we are JUSTIFIED! The false teachings of Jordan Cooper, have made me a stronger Catholic Christian! Thank you Jordan! You are in my prayers as you journey toward Truth! Peace always in Jesus Christ our Great and Kind God and Savior, He whose Flesh is true food and Blood true drink!

[@nerdtalk1789]

You do realize that Jesus doesn’t say “Not by faith alone” at the end of that. Context is key.

[@matthewbroderick6287]

@nerdtalk1789 Holy Scripture never teaches faith ALONE, except to negate it! For even if one has ALL FAITH, but does not LOVE, IT IS USELESS,for it is the DOERS OF THE LAW that are JUSTIFIED BEFORE God! Peace always in Jesus Christ our our and Kind God and Savior, He whose Flesh is true food and Blood true drink!

[@nerdtalk1789]

@ clearly you don’t understand what we mean by faith alone. Since Lutherans also believe you must be baptized and partake of the body and blood to be saved.

[@matthewbroderick6287]

@nerdtalk1789 then why preach faith ALONE when you must also be baptized and partake of the Lord's Supper! Holy Scripture teaches that it is by WORKS and NOT BY FAITH ALONE that we are JUSTIFIED as it is the DOERS OF THE LAW that are JUSTIFIED BEFORE God! Clearly faith ALONE is never found in Holy Scripture! Holy Scripture teaches we must cooperate with God's saving grace and repent and bear fruit and forgive others and love one another and keep the commandments and persevere to the end to be saved! Go ahead, provide your faith ALONE definition! Peace always in Jesus Christ our Great and Kind God and Savior, He whose Flesh is true food and Blood true drink!!

[@nerdtalk1789]

@ if you are just gonna ignore my comments I’m not gonna have a conversation with you.