The Eternal

[...he] becomes sin for us / and to us / who in ourselves are poor sinners / Christ’s righteousness is imputed / as if we had perfectly fulfilled the entire Law our whole lives / Romans 10 / and had never committed any sin; so much so / that in Christ we are even called righteousness itself / which is valid before God / 2 Corinthians 5. Thus we are clothed with Christ / Galatians 3 A reference to "putting on Christ" like a garment. / and in his garments we inherit the blessing along with Jacob / Genesis 27 The author uses the story of Jacob receiving his father’s blessing while wearing his brother's clothes as a metaphor for the believer receiving God's blessing while "clothed" in Christ's righteousness.. Through our own merit we are made sin and imprisonment to Christ / and he in turn is made righteousness and redemption for us by God himself / 1 Corinthians 1. That is imputed righteousness original Latin: Justitia imputativa; the core Protestant doctrine that a believer's justification comes from God "crediting" Christ's holiness to them, rather than from their own works., which is credited by God to repentant sinners through faith: the sum of the Old and New Testaments / God himself is our righteousness / just as we are his sin / Jeremiah 23. In this, true salvation original: Seeligkeit; blessedness or eternal happiness. consists / that God does not credit our sin to us / but to Christ / Psalm 32 The source text cites "Psalm 2," but likely intends Psalm 32:2 ("Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity"), which is the passage quoted in Romans 4. / Romans 4. How then can GOD condemn us / since he himself declares us righteous / Romans 8. Christ bears our sickness and sin / so that in his place / through faith [we become] healthy and righteous