Oh yeah, when? I have said I am striving to become, as Jesus asks us to, but never that I am. So, unless you can point back and show me where I actually wrote "I AM righteous" then I suggest you stop slandering me, please.
Apart from the slander, you are also taking my meaning, which is purely Biblical, and purely about loving Jesus and serving Him, and making it seem selfish. I care nothing for seeming righteous in front of others. I am nothing in the grand scheme of things. Jesus is all, and my life, now that He has randsomed it, will be spend living for Him.
That is what is wrong with many posts on my threads, a claim that WE must DO, that we must strive by our works to become like God. Never a message that a person struggling with his/her sinfulness has a friend that understands and cares about them. Just that a person must strive, strive, strive to make themselves worthy to be saved.
I am well aware that Satan's words to Eve was that she could become like God.
As for me I believe the word of God
Hebrews 4:1-11
4 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: "So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest,'" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works";
5 and again in this place: "They shall not enter My rest."
6 Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,
7 again He designates a certain day, saying in David, "Today," after such a long time, as it has been said: "Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts."
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
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Many think the disobedience in verse 11 is commiting sins of the flesh but according to verse 2 it is a lack of faith in believing what God has said. What God has said, to us, is in the gospel of grace as given to Paul by Jesus; that all who place their belief, faith, trust, and confidence in Jesus' shed blood on the cross will become children of God by the operation of the Holy Spirit.