Col 2:13 and Justification !
Col 2:13
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
This scripture speaks to Justification before faith or believing ! All for whom Christ died, dying for their sins /offences that had been charged unto Him, Rom 4:25
25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
The word trespasses and offences are the same word from the original paraptōma:
I.
to fall beside or near something
II.
a lapse or deviation from truth and uprightness
A.
a sin, misdeed
So to be included is the original trespass in Adam, as Man in him was made upright Ecc 7:29
29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man['adam ] upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
That it includes Adam's sin also is seen here Rom 5:15
But not as the offence [by adam], so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
And so He died as their Surety and Representative, and when He arose, He rose as the same, as their Surety and Representative, so much so that its said / written that they arose with Him, or they were quickened together with Him ! Peter wrote of His resurrection 1 Pet 3:18
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Its a quickening, and the same word is used in Col 2:13 just with the prep syn which means " with"
So when He was quickened from the dead as our Surety Head, those He represented were quickened together from the dead with Him , and so in Rom 4:25 it is stated clearly that He was quicken / raised for /because of their Justification !
Now the word Justification, the greek word dikaiōsis means:
I.
the act of God declaring men free from guilt and acceptable to him
II.
abjuring to be righteous, justification
Which is an equivalent to forgiven Col 2:13 ! Rom 4:25 can say as well this:
25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again because we have been forgiven of those offences !
So Christ's being risen from the dead is an evidence and proof positive of that, and the death that was due to our sins Rom 6:23, has been put away, abolished, and so constituting the forgiveness of our sins; so the resurrection of Christ is evidence that all for whom He died are forgiven/ Justified before they believe ! To deny this is to deny the very evidence of the resurrection, which is unbelief ! No one can be a believer and deny the resurrection and what it evidences as the accomplishment of Christ's death !
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