Justification by faith alone. Sounds simple enough, and in some respects it is. In the PCA we admit people into membership who acknowledge they are sinners and trust in Christ alone for salvation. In a certain sense, we are requiring that they understand the doctrine of justification. But we are not requiring that they are able to understand all the debates surrounding the topic. And, from what I can tell from online discussions, few who discourse on such matters seem to really understand the precise nature of the questions that were considered in the Early Modern period by Reformed divines.
No one disputes that Christ obeyed the law for us or even that, in a certain sense, he obeyed in our stead. The real debate concerns whether there is an imputation of the active obedience of Christ to us so that we are accounted as having obeyed the law perfectly.
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