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Q. In some ways your take on dikaiosune<\/em> as applied to the believer seems very much traditional\u2014 it means to be declared righteous on the basis of Christ\u2019s faithfulness even unto death on the cross. In other words, it is about what is traditionally called justification, or \u2018right standing with God\u2019. One then wonders why John Piper and others have gone ballistic over your take on this crucial term. Did they just not understand your point? For me personally, I would go a bit further and say it refers to being put back into right relationship with God, which is not just about legal position but also the start or restart of a positive relationship. Would you agree? Of course, I am assuming that the new birth and what we call justification, while they can be distinguished, in fact go together at the beginning of a person being in Christ.<\/p>\n

A. Yes, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what Paul is discussing. And I think in Galatians \u2018justification\u2019 is God\u2019s declaration (on the basis of Messiah-faithfulness i.e. BOTH Jesus\u2019 faithful death AND human faith in what-God-has-done-in-Jesus) that this person is \u2018in the right\u2019, dikaios<\/em> in the sense we discussed earlier from Pss Sol \u2013 i.e. a real, true member of God\u2019s covenant family. Since this is very much a new-covenant, new-exodus term for Paul this also includes the forgiveness of sins, but that\u2019s not the primary thing Paul is talking about in Gal (words for \u2018sin\u2019 etc are v rare in Gal, contrast Rom). \u2018Right standing with God\u2019 is of course there, but NOT (and this is what Piper and co don\u2019t like of course) in terms of the mediaeval \u2018accumulation of moral credit\u2019. That way of putting it is simply radically anachronistic for the first century. Since Piper etc have set up the whole thing in terms of that mediaeval question they naturally object when I take it back to the first century since it undermines the neat structure. The point, anyway, in Galatians, is not \u2018do I have right standing before God\u2019 but \u2018who should I sit down and eat with\u2019. There is NO CHANGE OF SUBJECT at 2.15!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"