What I have written is gone way over your head as you have stated. You are only seeing righteousness througjh your indoctrination and not realizing that righteousness is what we DO. The bible is misunderstood if one thinks that righteousness is any other thing.
You need instruction in righteousness. As Paul states.
Having faith in God is NOT about having beliefs about God. Beliefs are NOT righteousness...they are opinions. That's where modern religionists get confused. God justifies faith in the impossible because faith believes that God can do anything. Faith is DOING allegiance to what God can do. And faith is in what God WILL do as He tells a person...personally. God spoke directly to Abraham and told him something that was impossible for him...until God said it. It is a HUMAN righteousness to believe in the impossible. It is Christ's righteousness to DO the impossible. Each is according to our capacity.
A real disciple doesn't just believe in the impossible but also DOES the impossible. How? By the righteousness of God. Seek first the kingdom and His righteousness (His DOING). What does He do? He translates us into the kingdom realm to walk as Jesus walked in His resurrection life and power.
1. Do you believe in the impossible?
2. Do you believe you can walk in resurrection life and power just like Jesus did?
3. If not go back to 1.
Where did the subject I just raised go, Epi? You quickly moved off topic again and back to your comfort zone (basics - 101). Are you now writing to me or yourself, to an audience? You are now doing your usual empty grandstanding act in an attempt to teach me something that does not really apply to me, or is not about my two recent posts to you in the subject of "human righteousness" that must be defined in a wide audience.
And then out of nowhere, you have the gall to accuse me of "...seeing righteousness through my indoctrination." and then adding your catch phrase "righteousness is what we do." And you can drive a semi through this vague statement of course.
I will just finish with the my current topic that entailed "Human," "Self," and "in Christ" righteousness.
- The Bible states that "there is none righteous, no not one" (Romans 3:10). Human attempts at righteousness are described as "filthy rags" to God and cannot justify a person before Him.
- Alien Righteousness: The "righteousness of God" is not a quality believers, alone, achieve but a gift imputed to them through faith in Jesus Christ (Romans 3:21-22; 2 Corinthians 5:21).
- Source of Righteousness: True righteousness is "alien" to believers because it is based on Christ’s death and resurrection, not on human works or behavior. It is granted solely by God’s grace and received through faith, not earned by merit.
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And of course believers always must only be righteous in God and not of ourselves. And of course that means doing, and not just believing. How else can you mature and grow? And these works are not performed on our own, as in self, only in cooperation with the Spirit of God via the planted spirit of his Son, who dwells within every believer!
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You know there are words appropriate for your habitual dramatic non-substantial hifalutin responses to many of your posts, in your usual style and attempts to belittle others. I don't buy into any of it, and it can be amusing. I only respond to a mature and honest post of those of a sincere heart and not one that is viewed as written in a mode of insecurity and even desperation.
Let me sum up what your empty ridiculous grandstanding means to me with these words you can easy search for: airy, bloated, flatulent, gaseous/gassy, blustering/blustery, gusty, inflated, overblown, puffy, and swollen.
Airy:
Definition: affected or proud
The noun air and the derivative airy are both regularly exhaled in reference to things insubstantial or immaterial. They descend from Greek
aēr.
Bloated:
Definition: overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. — often used figuratively to describe something as having grown excessively large.
Blustering/Blustery:
Definition (
blustering): speaking loudly and aggressively
Definition (
blustery): noisily self-assertive
Blustering: used as an adjectival present participle becomes established during the 16th century—need we say the verb form was already blowing around. It is of Germanic origin.
Blustery
: begins making noise in the 18th century and is formed from the noun bluster, which can refer to a violent, boisterous blowing or commotion or to a loud, boastful or threatening speech.
Flatulent:
Definition: pompously or portentously overblown
The adjective It begins being expelled during the late 16th century as a word describing literal and metaphorical gaseous phenomena. It blows in from Middle French, but its ultimate source words are Latin
flatus, used to refer to an act of blowing or wind, and
flare, a Latin verb meaning "to blow."
Gaseous/Gassy:
Definition (
gaseous,
gassy): characterized by many words but little content; emptily verbose
Both gaseous and gassy ripen during the 18th century. Their source is gas, which is believed to be an alteration of Latin
chaos, meaning "space" and (yes) "chaos"
Gusty:
Definition: marked by outbursts of empty bombastic talk
The related noun gust blasts into 16th-century English with the meaning "a sudden brief rush of wind" and is swiftly picked up by the Bard; it is believed to be of Old Norse ancestry.
Inflated"
Definition: elaborated or heightened by artificial or empty means
Inflated blew up as an adjective past participle in the 17th century. The verb inflate was formed in the 15th century when the Latin prefix in-was coupled to the verb
flare, meaning "to blow."
Overblown:
Definition: inflated or pretentious
It's difficult to puff up the history of overblown. The prefix over- is joined to the adjective blown, meaning "swollen" and deriving from the Middle English past participle of the verb
blowen (blow, in modern day).
Puffed/Puffy:
Definition (
puffed): exhibiting or expressive of vanity or conceit; pretentious or arrogant
Definition (
puffy): characterized by vanity or ostentation
The adjectives puffed (also
puffed-up) and puffy start being emitted in 16th-century English. The verb and noun puff are centuries older, dating to Old English and originating from onomatopoeia.
Swelling/Swollen:
Definition (
swelling,
swollen): inflated in style or manner; bombastic or pompous
Both adjectives are participles of swell, an ancient verb originally meaning "to expand" and expanding outward in meaning over many years. The older of the two adjectives is
swollen.
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