Gosh, I'm surprised. I didn't think imparted righteousness was disputed, just that people gave it different emphasis. I feel a bit like if I'd said "Evangelicals sometimes overemphasise Easter at the expense of Christmas" and you'd said "What is this Christmas you speak of?"
But I'll try:
(It could be that we're using the terms differently. I might be getting them wrong, but as I understand it imputed righteousness means God declares that we're righteous even though there's no ontological change in us, and imparted means that God actually changes us, transforming us into his likeness and making us righteous.)
* 2 Cor 3:18 "And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit."
* Galatians 5:22 - fruits of the Spirit - suggests actual observable righteous behaviour, not just imputed, and that it comes from God['s Spirit]
* Philippians 1:9-11 "And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, 11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God." - he's describing observable changes in behaviour, and saying it comes through Jeses
* Romans 2:12 "be transformed by the renewing of your mind."
* 2 Cor 9-10 "Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness."
Romans 6:16 "Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?" suggests an actual ontological righteousness, I think
* Ephesians 5:8-10 "For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10and find out what pleases the Lord." It's phrased as a command, but seems to imply that we don't have to do it without help (which would be inconsistent with a lot of other scripture anyway)
* Ephesians 4:24 "the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."
And if hymns and songs count:
* Away in a Manger "And fit us for heaven..."
* Breathe on me, breath of God: "...that I might love as thou dost love, and do as thou wouldst do"
* Various worship songs that say things like "Make me holy" or "Make me like you"
Of course imputed righteousness is very much there in scripture too - I was never denying it, just trying to argue that both exist.
Lewis doesn't quite count as scripture yet, I think, although he's getting pretty close Yes - a friend once sent me a quote from Screwtape, saying "A deuterocanonical quotation for you..." :)
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But I'll try:
(It could be that we're using the terms differently. I might be getting them wrong, but as I understand it imputed righteousness means God declares that we're righteous even though there's no ontological change in us, and imparted means that God actually changes us, transforming us into his likeness and making us righteous.)
* 2 Cor 3:18 "And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit."
* Galatians 5:22 - fruits of the Spirit - suggests actual observable righteous behaviour, not just imputed, and that it comes from God['s Spirit]
* Philippians 1:9-11 "And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, 11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God." - he's describing observable changes in behaviour, and saying it comes through Jeses
* Romans 2:12 "be transformed by the renewing of your mind."
* 2 Cor 9-10 "Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness."
Romans 6:16 "Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?" suggests an actual ontological righteousness, I think
* Ephesians 5:8-10 "For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10and find out what pleases the Lord." It's phrased as a command, but seems to imply that we don't have to do it without help (which would be inconsistent with a lot of other scripture anyway)
* Ephesians 4:24 "the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."
And if hymns and songs count:
* Away in a Manger "And fit us for heaven..."
* Breathe on me, breath of God: "...that I might love as thou dost love, and do as thou wouldst do"
* Various worship songs that say things like "Make me holy" or "Make me like you"
Of course imputed righteousness is very much there in scripture too - I was never denying it, just trying to argue that both exist.
Lewis doesn't quite count as scripture yet, I think, although he's getting pretty close
Yes - a friend once sent me a quote from Screwtape, saying "A deuterocanonical quotation for you..." :)