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Righteousness In Paul's Arguement Of Sin For The Whole World
Righteousness – In Romans, righteousness is actually dependent on God where He declares the believer righteous in his eyes, free of all sin. – Paul uses the term justification to describe how God used Christ to take the punishment of sin for the entire world at the cross and declare men righteous. Paul uses faith as a way to demonstrate how believers are able to become righteous through faith. Not by any working of their own but because they trust God to do what He has declared to do such as Abraham trusting God to make Abraham a father of many
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