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Michael S. Heiser on Justification

1963 – 2023 · EVANGELICAL / NON-CONFESSIONAL
NOT LOCATED IN A SOURCENO POSITION FOUND°
NO STANCE — AND WHY

No position located in this corpus

Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.

THE POSITION

Affirms that grace is unmerited and that works validate rather than cause salvation, but never states a position on the technical question — no statement on imputation, on the active obedience of Christ, or on forensic versus transformative justification as a choice between them.

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

Forensic — righteousness imputed, not infusedJACOBUS ARMINIUS · CALVIN · JONATHAN EDWARDS · THE CHURCH OF ELEVEN22 STATEMENT OF FAITH · JOSH HOWERTON · TIM KELLER · SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION · LUTHER · JOHN MACARTHUR · PHILIP MELANCHTHON · GAVIN ORTLUND · JOHN OWEN · JUSTIN PETERS · JOHN PIPER · R.C. SPROUL · CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON · WESLEY · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION · ZWINGLI
Includes being made righteous, not only declaredAUGUSTINE · CHRYSOSTOM
By infused grace, mediated sacramentallyAQUINAS
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Old Testament and Semitic languages scholar (PhD, Wisconsin, 2004), Scholar-in-Residence at Faithlife/Logos, and host of the Naked Bible Podcast. Argued that the Hebrew Bible assumes a real divine council of lesser elohim under Yahweh, and held that this reading defends rather than threatens the deity of Christ.

16 OF 18 POSITIONS QUOTED
Everything M. Heiser holds →
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"Michael S. Heiser on Justification", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/heiser/justification (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/heiser/justification).

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