When they refer to the " imputed righteousness of Christ, " they are referring to his intrinsic character as well as his life of sinlessness and perfect obedience to God's law on Earth, usually called his good news for sinners-Christ takes their sin and believers receive His blessed condition and righteousness.
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Progressive Adventist tend to disagree strongly with the belief that Christ was our example as well as substitute and also of " eschatological perfectionism, " the teaching that a final generation of believers must achieve a state of complete sinlessness ( or Christlikeness ) in the final period just before the second coming of Jesus when the saints are sealed.
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Adventist doctrine is that God took " man's nature in its fallen condition, " but yet " Christ did not in the least participate in its sin ", which shows Christ with post fall humanity but a sinlessness of Adam before the fall Mainstream Adventists believe that Jesus was beset with all of the moral weaknesses and frailties that ordinary humans experience.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge described himself as having once been a psilanthropist, believing Jesus to be the " real son of liberal theology ", was one of many German theologians who departed from the idea of personal ontological pre-existence of Christ, teaching that " Christ was not God but was created as the ideal and perfect man whose sinlessness constituted his divinity ."
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Some Adventists insist that a final generation of believers, who will live through the " time of trouble " ( between the close of probation and second coming of Christ ), who receive the seal of God mentioned in Revelation 7 : 3, must and will attain a state of sinlessness comparable to the pre-Last Generation " movement are representative of this stream of teaching.
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An important verse to note is 2 Cor 5 : 21, " For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God " ( ESV ), which has traditionally been interpreted to mean that the Christian has, in some way, become righteous ( by impartation or imputation ), in exchange for Jesus'sinlessness.
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An important verse to note is 2 Cor 5 : 21, " For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God . " ( ESV ), which has traditionally been interpreted to mean that the Christian has, in some way, become righteous ( by impartation or imputation ), in exchange for Jesus'sinlessness.
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He stated his view is as follows : " According to us the best view is that, owing to their prophethood, there is neither a grave nor a small sin or error ( dhanb ) . " Besides investigating the subject in his Commentary on the Qur'an, he wrote a separate book titled " Ismatu'l-Anbiya " ( " The Sinlessness of the Prophets " ) and championed the cause of this dogma being a part of Sunni theology.
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The book was described quite recently by a fellow theologian as " a comprehensive interpretation of Christian ethics as promulgated by Jesus, right on down through those whom Flew subsequently identifies as the most significant Christian thinkers of the last two thousand years . " It shows Flew to be one of several Methodist theologians in the mid-20th century to have become critical of the ideas of John Wesley on sinlessness and purity of intention : " Flew critiques Wesley's attitude to sin as offering only an inadequate account of moral evil, " so that he can " posit an over-optimistic instantaneous end to the effects of sin . . . . The result of these problems is an'intramundane asceticism', whereby the one assured of sanctification merely endures secular life, allowing a barrier to exist between one's work and worship ."
