Does dikaioo (justify) mean to make just/righteous? What is it really?

[guanophore]

That looks pretty good but it seems to me that the verb there is not “justify” but actually “make righteous” so one couldn’t argue that the verb dikaioo means to “make righteous” with Rom 5:19. BUT my Greek is very elementary and I’m not sure at all but I think dikaioi in the text is a noun not a verb but if you know Greek correct me if I’m wrong and cite some passages where dikaioo means to make righteous thanks

It another thread on baptism, someone posted a study from the intertestamental period on the word “baptizo”. It was used in secular circles to describe a recipe for making pickles. I found this very interesting, since once a cucumber is made into a pickle, it can never go back to being a cucumber. It is permanently changed.

I also find this in Cor. 6

1 Cor 6:11
11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

Which seems to be a reference to baptism.

 

[guanophore]

But do we recognize the difference between Bible verses that talk about righteousness in the sense of uprightness, moral/behavioral righteousness, and on the other hand the verses that treat the issue as a legal declaration based on grace and no works? Akin seemed to say Catholics don’t think about it in terms of legal vs. behavioral righteousness, but ontological righteousness = he who does righteousness is righteous. This I don’t get, I think the Protestant view is easier to see and understand, to me the ontological thing sounds like the behavioral one, I don’t see where the declarational aspect fits in…
Appreciate any help,
E

There is no “difference” in CAtholic thought. All of ones efforts toward righteousness are of no avail without the justification that comes by faith. On the other hand, walking in the good works that God has prepared for us from the foundation of the world is a natural outgrowth of the transfigurating washing that occurs in baptism. There is not a separation between the infused righteousness, and the lived righteousness based upon that infusion.