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NASB | 2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Christ who knew no sin to [judicially] be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we would become the righteousness of God [that is, we would be made acceptable to Him and placed in a right relationship with Him by His gracious lovingkindness]. |
Bible Question: I wanted to ask as to what extent does this phrase go " He made Christ to be sin.." Some denominations says, "that Jesus went to hell", another says "Jesus becane sin(changed His nature, thats why the Father turned His face from Him)" another says"Jesus died spiritually" and that "Jesus was born-again from death and became the first born again person... are these statements biblical? |
Bible Answer: Hi, Hannah! Welcome to the forum! The subject of 2 Corinthians 5:21 is what theologians call double or dual imputation. To begin with, let me define the word "imputation" for you. The Easton Bible Dictionary states that imputation is "used to designate any action or word or thing as reckoned to a person. Thus in doctrinal language (1) the sin of Adam is imputed to all his descendants, i.e., it is reckoned as theirs, and they are dealt with therefore as guilty; (2) the righteousness of Christ is imputed to them that believe in Him, or so attributed to them as to be considered their own; and (3) our sins are imputed to Christ, i.e., He assumed our 'law-place,' undertook to answer the demands of justice for our sins. In all these cases the nature of imputation is the same (Romans 5:12-19; compare Philemon 1:18-19)." The old divines said it best when they wrote this regarding the imputation of Adam's sin to us: "Our first parents, by this sin, fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and we in them whereby death came upon all: all becoming dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body. (Romans 3:23; Romans 5:12, etc; Titus 1:15; Genesis 6:5; Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 3:10-19)" --LBCF, 1689, Chapter 6, Paragraph 2 When they spoke of the imputation of Christ's righteousness to the believer they wrote: "Those whom God effectually calleth, He also freely justifieth, not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous; not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; not by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their righteousness; but by imputing Christ's active obedience unto the whole law, and passive obedience in His death for their whole and sole righteousness by faith, which faith they have not of themselves; it is the gift of God. (Romans 3:24; Romans 8:30; Romans 4:5-8; Ephesians 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:30, 31; Romans 5:17-19; Philippians 3:8, 9; Ephesians 2:8-10; John 1:12; Romans 5:17)" --1689 LBCF, Chapter 11, Paragraph 1 So, the verse you asked about, is talking about the imputation of our sin to Christ and the imputation of His righteousness to us: double imputation. Here is one more definition of the doctrine from Theopedia. It provides you with a number of other keywords if you want to look deeper into this teaching. "Double Imputation is a doctrine related to Justification, which views the concept of imputation as applying both to Christ and believers. On the one hand, our sins are imputed to Christ who bore them on the cross. On the other hand, Christ's righteousness is imputed to believers whereby they are seen by God as cloaked in the righteousness of Christ. Justification, in this view, is based on Christ's propitiatory sacrifice as well as His personal righteousness imputed to us, not any righteousness inherent or infused in man." In Him, Doc |