Personal or Subjective Justification At the same moment a person comes to faith in Jesus or the gospel, that is, when the person trusts in the forgiveness earned by Christ and offered in the gospel, in that very same moment the person is justified before God through that faith. It is a confirmation that justification

Justification by Faith As seen above, the universal, objective justification is a necessary prerequisite for the personal reception of justification (justification by faith). If no justification of all people has taken place through Christ’s complete and vicarious fulfillment of God’s demands, then there is no justification to offer people, to be received by grace through