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You cannot understand what righteousness is if you do not know what righteousness means. Majority of the world falls from righteousness because they do not understand it. If you do not know the guidelines God sets for us to follow in righteousness then you truly are lost in this world of sin. The Bible is our guide to showing us how to live in true righteousness and truth. When we follow Gods guides that will lead us to salvation we will live happier lives among the pagans.
Really.
Cosmic hypocrisy does make it
If someone kills someone that is a SIN. If someone has not killed someone but is on the verge to killing someone their thoughts are in a sin to kill and needs to be stopped so the child is safe. Their actions of wanting to kill someone will not be right with God. God will take care of them even if they go to jail.
I feel sure that every culture has a concept of righteousness. Just as every culture has a concept of love, or hate, or vengeance, or forgiveness.
You are stuck on your own religious concept of righteousness. And probably your own concept of God. But in reality, these are universal concepts with lesser variations according to historical timeline and relative culture.
"God's righteousness" is written into creation. "God's will" is being expressed and fulfilled all around us. No religions are required. But many are helpful
The Bible is YOUR guide. But you are not the prototype for all humanity.
Yes, but going that does not require a Bible or any particular religious proscriptions. God's will is not being hidden from us. We can all recognize it if we are willing to look with our hearts instead of our ego.
It is a sin if you do it and it is a sin if your mind thinks about doing it. In order for the mind to clear themselves from sinning, they have to Repent of their sins to God and follow his commandments. When one has shown God that they are Faithful and follow him, they will be freed from the law because their mind is no longer is controlled by sin. The law was created for the unrighteous not the righteous. when you become righteous with God your free from the law. Obeying the commandments and having Faith in God is the key to salvation.
Sin come from law and as long as your are under law you are also under sin. When God became man, as Jesus, he did not sin, because he was not under law. He had sort of divine Diplomatic immunity. Where there is no law there is no sin and punishment.
You seem to be unfamiliar with the negative conduct of God reported in the Bible. God originally demanded that the firstborn male of every family be sacrificed to [him], but softened on the point later. God ordered invasive wars, the massacre of surrendered populations (sparing the virgins for distribution among the troops). God did a deal with Jephthah, the sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter in return for military victory, which Jephthah paid and God made him Judge (boss man) of Israel. God demanded that descendants of Saul be killed by impalement before [he] would agree to lift a great famine. Christianity teaches that God sacrificed [his] own son to [him]self as a precondition of [his]forgiving sins, a proposition that I've never understood. God condoned slavery, not repenting until the late 18th century, and thereafter unevenly around the globe. God was on occasion murderously intolerant of other religions. God brought the Christians into being, resulting in murderous and larcenous persecution of [his] chosen people by Christians across two thousand years. God was vehemently opposed to divorce until it starting losing [him] [his] congregations in the richer countries. God is still in two minds about homosexuality but again the congregation point is likely to persuade [him].
You are evading my question in a very
More evasion.
It is a sin if you send someone else to kill someone. The person that is going to kill someone is also sinning. Both have it in their minds to hurt someone. That is all the world thinks of is hurting others for their own glory. Obeying God means giving up sin, giving up the worlds way and only following in Gods will to live for him and be happy among the pagans that refuse to obey God.
More dishonest evasion. Ig city for you.
Because the parents of them where disobeying God, God destroyed the children that come from the bad seed so that it would not spread to other ones.