Forgiveness of Sins and Imputed Righteousness

God forgave sin and imputed righteousness at the same time and upon the sole condition of the obedience of Christ, Rom. 5:19. The two-fold act was inclusive of all the elect and is immutable and outside their will. God looked away from the sins of Abraham and imputed righteousness through His attribute of forbearance [Rom. 3:25] but He actually dealt with Abraham’s sin at the cross, Hebrews 9:15. In Romans 4:24, ‘believing’ is not a cause or condition for imputed righteousness and the verse doesn’t assert that. I suggest “the ones believing” are those chosen before the foundation of the world, justified at the cross and revealed the Gospel by effectual calling in time. Paul defined the essential Doctrine of Christ in Romans 4:25. Christ our LORD ”...was delivered for [because of] our offenses, and was raised for [because of] our justification.” God acted as Judge delivering His Perfect Son to judgment as a result of the trespasses of the elect. As a result of them being justified, God raised Him out of death. The verse declares an equal and simultaneous transfer: God charged the sin of the elect to Christ’s account and He charged the righteousness Christ established to their account. By discharging sin from their accounts, God forgave them. By charging (imputing) righteousness, He declared them righteous. Before Christ left the cross the elect were justified. The next verse literally reads: “Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our LORD Jesus Christ.” Faith is not the condition of being ‘declared righteous’ but the God-given means of ‘peace toward God’.