Is The Doctrine Of Transferred Righteousness A Biblical Doctrine?
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin ArticlesA querist asks, “A preacher of the denominational persuasion was teaching on television that God does not look upon us as being righteous in and of ourselves but looks upon the righteousness of Christ and thus declares us to be righteous through Him.
Doesn’t the above statement allege that in the process of salvation, Christ “transfers” to the sinner the righteous which He possesses and henceforth the sinner is clothed in the righteousness which Christ himself exhibits? Is this doctrine of transferred righteous a scriptural one? This preacher used Romans 3:22; Romans 4:3; Romans 4:6 and 1 Corinthians 1:30 as prooftexts.”
Brother Kevin Cauley, one of the instructors at the Southwest School of Bible Studies biblically answers this question:
- Transferred Righteousness