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Originally Posted by dnlgfnk
It's refreshing to see you mention "hope".
That "righteousness" in Ps 89, through the merits of Christ (Rom 3:22) is infused in man, enabling man to be a partaker of divine nature ( 2 Pt 1:4, Gal 4:5, Rom 8:14-17)...filial adoption..."family room"---Over and above "merely" imputed to man, i.e., "courtroom".
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"Man" as in all men on the planet?
"Infusion" is not taught in scripture with respect to the Last Adam's righteousness or for that matter with Adam's original sin. Imputation is the proper word. By God's sovereign grace, a
legal transaction takes place when one's personal sins and Adam's original sin are laid on (imputed to) Christ, and Christ's righteousness, in turn, is imputed to the sinner. It's legal in nature because all men are lawbreakers and no mortal man is inherently righteous.
Being partakers of the divine nature is limited to born again Christians who are indwelt by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is how Christians are made to partake in the divine nature.
And no one is has any "filial" relationship with God in space and time until, again, by His sovereign grace He chooses to cause one to be born again (1Pet 1:3). At that point in time, one is brought into God's family, i.e. adopted.
