T:Jesus was not justified by His own righteousness, but by the righteousness of God.
a:Are you saying that Jesus needed imputed righteousness from God?
Jesus never sinned. I think that should answer the question.
And/or that God's character stands in the place of Christ's character?
Why would this be necessary? I don't know why you're asking this. I didn't say anything along these lines.
I quoted at some length from Jones. It seems to me that should have made my point clear.
If you give yourself to Him, and accept Him as your Saviour, then, sinful as your life may have been, for His sake you are accounted righteous. Christ's character stands in place of your character, and you are accepted before God just as if you had not sinned. {SC 62.2}
That's how justification works for us. Is that how you envision Jesus was justified?
This is one statement. She wrote many statements regarding how we are justified. To take just one statement, and say that this is how we are justified isn't adequate.
Again, if you read what I wrote, and what I quoted from Jones, it should be clear what point I was making.
T:He was righteous by faith.
a:He lived righteously by faith in God? Sure.
He had to have faith in someone else's righteousness to count as His own? No.
Nothing like this was discussed in what I either said or quoted.
T:If Christ has simply manifest His own righteousness, that would not help us, because we have no righteousness of our own that could be manifest.
a:He did not come to do what we could do for ourselves. He did what we cannot.
Christ, in taking sinful flesh, emptied Himself, so that the will of God could be manifest in that sinful flesh. In so doing, He made it possible for us to do the same, by emptying ourselves as He emptied Himself. This was the point of Jones' sermon, was it not?
So that we can have what we do not deserve. He righteousness is given (neither earned nor duplicated) to us that we might be given (neither earned nor duplicated) life.
I'm not sure quite what you're saying here. I certainly agree that we deserve nothing good, either righteousness nor eternal life, if that's your point.
2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ,To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
What is justification by faith? It is the work of God in laying the glory of man in the dust, and doing for man that which it is not in his power to do for himself. When men see their own nothingness, they are prepared to be clothed with the righteousness of Christ. {FLB 111.2}
This is an excellent quote. I believe it's in reference to the 1888 message.
He came to our world and took our sins upon his own divine soul, that we might receive his imputed righteousness. He was condemned for our sins, in which he had no share, that we might be justified by his righteousness, in which we had no share. {RH, March 21, 1893 par. 6}
This is as well. She was reacting to Jones and Waggoner's preaching, and expressing the thought in her own words.
The life of Christ on earth was a perfect expression of God's law, and when those who claim to be children of God become Christlike in character, they will be obedient to God's commandments. Then the Lord can trust them to be of the number who shall compose the family of heaven. Clothed in the glorious apparel of Christ's righteousness, they have a place at the King's feast. {COL 315.1}
This is excellent as well. We see that being clothed in the apparel of Christ's righteousness involves being Christlike in character, and obedient to God's commandments.
This is a very nice collection of quotes. I particularly liked this point:
When men see their own nothingness, they are prepared to be clothed with the righteousness of Christ.
Amen to that!