Thoughts about imputation and its weakness

I think that in contemplating the the 2 paradigms–the list and the agape paradigms, part of what enters the play is how sin has to be dealt with in the person. Basically you have said the list one involves a perfect keeping of the law which would necessitate an imputation, and that the agape one sees the list and an external keeping of the law as a shadow of true righteousness while real righteousness is infused agape with the writing of the law on the heart. Part of these paradigms is concerned with how can sin (a transgression of law) be dealt with to make one righteous. The Catholic Encyclopedia , in discussing this says, we can not accept imputation –

In considering the effects of justification it will be useful to compare the Catholic doctrine of real forgiveness of sin with the Protestant theory that sin is merely “covered” and not imputed. By declaring the grace of justification, or sanctifying grace, to be the only formal cause of justification, the Council of Trent intended to emphasize the fact that in possessing sanctifying grace we possess the whole essence of the state of justification with all its formal effects; that is, we possess freedom from sin and sanctity, and indeed freedom from sin by means of sanctity. Such a remission of sin could not consist in a mere covering or non-imputation of sins, which continue their existence out of view; it must necessarily consist in the real obliteration and annihilation of the guilt.

It goes on to give Scripture and then makes a summary statement–here is part:

. Thus it follows from Holy Writ that by the infusion of sanctifying grace sin is destroyed and blotted out of absolute necessity, and that the Protestant theory of “covering and not imputing sin” is both a philosophical and a theological impossibility. Besides the principal effect of justification, i.e. real obliteration of sin by means of sanctification.....

So , it would seem, in this discussion this aspect needs to be considered. The aspect of the need for a true blotting out and destroying of sin and not just a covering over sin and not imputing sin.