God created them good and in his own image, that is, in true righteousness and holiness, so that they Heidelberg Catechism 6 narrows in on a remarkable aspect in which you are made in the image of God: “in true righteousness The essential part of what makes you unique is sharing in God’s righteousness and holiness—doing what

God gave Adam life, and in return, Adam must perfectly obey God. Even if you somehow could perfectly keep God's law on your own (which you can't), you would still be This new Adam, Jesus Christ, perfectly kept God's covenantal obligations, and thereby earned eternal body and soul, in life and in death, to your faithful Savior Jesus Christ, you have a faithful and perfect It's through "the obedience of the one man [Jesus] the many [including you] will be made righteous (v19

that our blessedness lies in the forgiveness of our sins because of Jesus Christ, and that in it our righteousness God is contained, as David and Paul teach us when they declare that man blessed to whom God grants righteousness

nevertheless, without my deserving it at all, out of sheer grace, God grants and credits to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness of Christ, as if I had never sinned nor been a sinner, as if I had been as perfectly obedient as Christ was obedient for me.

He is our mediator, and with his innocence and perfect holiness he removes from God’s sight my sin—mine way that the Torah describes it over and over, the animals offered to atone for sin had to be without defect You were born into God's covenant with Adam in which you only gain ongoing life if you perfectly obey AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our holy and perfectly righteous Father, who justly requires unblemished obedience ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Thank God for your mediator who had no defects

While there is a lot of good to learn from the early Church, it wasn’t perfect. While those different things were corrected, the early Church is far from a golden age that was perfect

We're not perfect by any means, but we're a whole lot better than most. James sets us straight here with a reminder of how far we are from meeting God's perfect standard. AAA Prayer (About) A CKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS : Our Father, who expects nothing less than perfection; A LIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Thank God for being given Christ's perfection, and pray for the wisdom

You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24  to Jesus the

another. 4  But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5  he saved us, not because of righteous of imitation  as in former times the Pelagians would have it  but by way of the propagation of their perverted If you don't realize the effect that original sin  has had on you - that it's sapped you of any ability good on your own - you'll end up chalking the good relationship you currently have with God up to the righteous Paul here corrects this sinful instinct, writing that Christ saved us, not because of righteous things

For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? And to preserve this unity more effectively, it is the duty of all believers, according to God’s Word Paul explains this in the verses that follow, setting things like righteousness, light, and Jesus in