Imputation

There is only one imputation. It exclusively occurred at the cross of the LORD Jesus Christ. It was strictly a judicial act. The result was God declaring all the elect of all time to be righteous in His sight (Rom. 4:25; 5:1). God ratified this one-time declaration of righteousness by raising Christ from the dead. The resurrection of Christ was objective proof positive to the elect of the finished justification of all those in Christ. Until Christ would come, God did forbear with and did pass over the sins of all the Old Testament saints, including Abraham, Rom. 3:25. For without the shedding of blood there is no remission. Likewise, His attribute of forbearance also permitted a reckoning of the Faith by promise, which Faith was the objective contents of Faith meaning Christ Himself and His future coming to bring in that everlasting righteousness that God would at long last impute to the elect upon the establishment of it, Rom. 4:3-13; Gal. 3:18. Like Abraham, all Old Testament saints believed the promise of that one true righteousness TO BE established by the LORD Jesus Christ in their behalf, John 8:56. New Testament saints look back to that one time declared righteousness. WHAT Abraham believed (i.e., THE Faith), God did impute to him for his righteousness, Rom. 4:3-9. And God did that without any condition to Abraham, Rom. 4:2. What God did by PROMISE for OT saints was actually accomplished and declared to be so upon the death of Christ, Rom. 4:25. This is precisely what the resurrection signified: righteousness imputed and sin not imputed resulting in finished justification at the cross of Christ.