What is the difference between Justification and Santification?

[Sola_C_F_G_S_DG]

Is the person actually righteous when declared righteous?

Another component of this is certainly the imputation of the righteounsess of Christ that occurs at the moment of justification. We can only be declared righteous on the basis of Christ’s perfect atonement. But still, the fact remains that at the moment of justification the person does not actually become righteous.

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (Christ). 2 cor 5:21.

Certainly, in answer to your question, there is a point in the salvation process where sinners are personally made righteous: sanctification.

Please be careful not to confuse these terms. As Luther said, this truly is the doctrine on which the church rises and falls.

 

[Doug77]

This is certainly what Catholics would say, but this is not what the NT teaches. The NT teaches:

Rom 3:28 A man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law

Gal 2:15 A man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified

Rom 5:1 having been justified by faith, we have peace with God

1 Cor 6:11 you were justified in teh name of the Lord Jesus and by teh Spirit of our God

It is all active on God’s part, passive on man’s part. The only cooperation or participation necessary is to receive the free gift by faith.

SOLA,
I believe you’re incorrect.
In Romans, Paul wasn’t refering to law in a general sense. He was refering to the Torah and the ritual and ceremonial aspects of Jewish Law. A law enacted to help distinguish the Jews from the Hellenistic culture they were living in. A culture that was trying to absorb them.
The law that is no longer necessary for salvation is the Torah. It has nothing to do with the sacraments of the Catholic Church.
You are anachronistically assuming a battle between Protestant Reforms and the Catholic Church in this verse… and that is incorrect.