The Truth of Gracious Justification

Several years ago, I heard a man could say that God now deals with him say over the radio that for him to say just-as-if-hed never sinned. There is that he was justified means that he truth in that statement.  The result of justification is that God deals with us as though we had never sinned.  Is that not what Paul wrote in Romans 5:17?  There he sates, “Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”  Similarly, although he does not use the word...