The two-step problem with the “Imputation of the Active Obedience” slogan
Posted on April 26th, 2008 by mark
- It leaves one completely mystified as to why Christ had to die.
- It then generates nuclear-physics level complication in rationalization explanation as to how the basic Gospel is compromised by anyone who doesn’t promote IAO.
I think there IAO makes sense within the comprehensive claims of Christ as representative head, but that isn’t strong enough for the loud advocates of IAO.
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I’m sympathetic to IAO because of Romans 8, but I don’t see it as an exact exchange or reckoning. I think Paul understands that as one net result of union. But taking it on its own, alone, isn’t what I see in either Paul or even Westminster. Justification and Sanctification are inseparably linked (so says Westminster). That alone means imputation is a contextual operation, not something that can be separated out as if nothing else is required or follows.
There was no “imputation alone” slogan in the Reformation.