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ADVENTIST FALSE JUSTIFICATION CORRECTED (excerpts}

This understanding tells us the following points.

(a) To impute is to count or esteem, it is a work of the mind and not of the voice.
Therefore imputed Righteousness is 
Righteousness esteemed with God’s mind to man, not declared with His voice.

(c) Therefore imputing Righteousness to man is not declaring Righteousness to man, it is 
esteeming, with His mind, Righteousness to the penitent man, not God declaring it.

(d) Thus the idea that Justification is God 
declaring Righteousness to the repenting 
man is not a Biblical doctrine.
(a) Abraham’s virility and Sarah’s womb were dead at their advanced ages. Romans 4:19.

(b) To make Abraham a father of many nations God therefore had to call (esteem) the things (Abraham’s virility and Sarah’s womb) not 
being [alive], as being [alive] this was 
quickening the dead organs or giving life to them. Romans 4:17.

(c) This means that imputation or esteeming 
from God makes the thing that was not, now present. It makes the dead alive. God was able to perform (by imputation/esteeming) what he had promised to Abraham and Sarah. Romans 4:21.

(d) We can see images in the above miracle of 
how God deals with converting sinners from spiritual death to spiritual life. He imputes 
or esteems the spiritually dead penitent man 
as spiritually alive and he is really made 
spiritually alive. This is Justification as God imputing life to the spiritually dead, who has repented and believed. (Ephesians 2:1,5; 
Romans 5:18). Romans 8:2.

Thus we can say the following about the word 
imputation as it relates to God.

(a) To impute is to mentally esteem a position.
(b) When God esteems or imputes with His mind this mental activity is creative or life giving.
(c) Imputed Righteousness is therefore esteemed Righteousness from God, it is life giving Righteousness from God’s mind.
(d) The following chart explains.

21. Mrs. White explains that imputed Righteousness 
does indeed have transforming (life–giving) 
power. She says:

“By receiving His imputed righteousness, through the transforming power of the Holy Spirit, we 
become like him.” Ellen G. White, God’s 
Amazing Grace, p. 96.

“Through faith in His name, He imputes unto us His righteousness and it becomes a living principle in our life.” Ellen G. White, Review and Herald, 
July 12, 1892.

22. In the light of all of what we have seen, we can now define Justification in its divine work part and its human reception part the following way.
(a) Justification is God imputing Righteousness to repentant man.
(b) Justification is God’s life-giving of 
Righteousness to repentant man.

(c) Justification is God’s mental life-giving of Righteousness to repentant man.
(d) Justification is man receiving imputed Righteousness from God.
(e) Justification is man receiving life-giving Righteousness from God.
(f) Justification is man receiving from God’s mind or mental estimation, life-giving Righteousness.
Thus we can truly say that Justification is man 
being given and receiving spiritual life giving Righteousness from God’s mental estimation. (Romans 5:18; Romans 8:6,9-11).

24. Thus real Justification in its God-ward and man-ward parts together is illustrated in the following chart.
Some misled people use Mrs. White’s statements that speak about Justification by Faith to teach a justification that does not transform the person. By selecting certain words or phrases usually used by theologians to teach a changeless Justification, they assume that by the use of these terms, Mrs. White is teaching that same concept of Justification taught by the theologians. But they are incorrect, because, while Mrs. Whites may seem to teach a changeless Justification, the general contexts of her statements show that all the terms really mean a transformative Justification. These are the 
following terms seized upon by unlearnt 
theologians in the SDA church.

(a) Imputed—They think Mrs. White means an 
imputation that is merely a declaration or a counting that does not really materially exist.

(b) Covered with Jesus robes of Righteous- ness—They think that these robes cover a 
person’s outward image before God because they still have their sinfulness and faults 
within. They explain the covering of these robes as if the person is still covered with their own filthy garments, and Jesus’ own provides a covering for those garments.

(c) Placed to one’s account—They think that the righteousness of Christ is placed upon some heavenly account and not in the very person himself. This makes the person unchanged while as yet he is looked upon by God as if he is righteous.

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