Counted Righteous in Christ
From Gospel Translations
By John Piper
About Justification
Part of the series Online Books
Should We Abandon the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness?
"Does Christ's life-long record of perfect obedience to God get 'credited' to your account when you trust in Christ and are 'justified' by God? This has been the historic Protestant understanding of the 'imputation of Christ's righteousness,' but John Piper warns that we are in danger of losing this doctrine today, because of attacks by scholars within the evangelical camp. In response, Piper shows, in careful treatment of passage after passage, that the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers is clearly the teaching of the Bible, and if we abandon this doctrine we will also lose justification by faith alone. I am thankful to God for John Piper's defense of this crucial doctrine."
Wayne Grudem
Research Professor of Theology and Bible
Phoenix Seminary