JUSTIFICATION:
a technical THEOLOGICAL term used in the NEW TESTAMENT writings
of PAUL to signify that act by which GOD restores humans to relationship with Himself.
PROTESTANT REFORMERS and ROMAN CATHOLIC theologians disagreed as to how justification was
to be interpreted. For the ROMAN CATHOLIC it means making just the SINNER through the
infusion of SUPERNATURAL GRACE that blots out sin to regenerate the SOUL and makes it
worthy of God the CREATOR. For the REFORMERS, justification is an act of divine
FORGIVENESS brought about by FAITH on the basis of the SACRIFICE of CHRIST.
