@stunnedbygrace @MatthewG @FluffyYellowDuck
At the most basic level, I understand holy to mean set apart for God, and righteous to be in the right.
As I go a little deeper into the thought, I quickly realize what I think is that it's right to be set apart for God, and being set apart for God means I'm in the right. On a decretive level, God speaks those things that are not as though they are, and I believe His word makes it so. On an experiential level, there seem to be differences in degree.
Then there are "imputed righteousness" and "imparted righteousness", one being the righteousness given Abraham as he believed God, the other being the newness of life brought though immersion into Christ.
There is Ephesians 4:24, put on the new man created after God in righteousness and true holiness, except the word there isn't hagios, it's a different word.
We can have imputed righteousness (forgiveness of sins), and imparted righteousness (a new creation), and yet have more or less practical righteousness, as our lives are up and down.
OK, I'm running late now . . . maybe this gets us started?
Much love!
At the most basic level, I understand holy to mean set apart for God, and righteous to be in the right.
As I go a little deeper into the thought, I quickly realize what I think is that it's right to be set apart for God, and being set apart for God means I'm in the right. On a decretive level, God speaks those things that are not as though they are, and I believe His word makes it so. On an experiential level, there seem to be differences in degree.
Then there are "imputed righteousness" and "imparted righteousness", one being the righteousness given Abraham as he believed God, the other being the newness of life brought though immersion into Christ.
There is Ephesians 4:24, put on the new man created after God in righteousness and true holiness, except the word there isn't hagios, it's a different word.
We can have imputed righteousness (forgiveness of sins), and imparted righteousness (a new creation), and yet have more or less practical righteousness, as our lives are up and down.
OK, I'm running late now . . . maybe this gets us started?
Much love!
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