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» Brian Tubbs - An Indictment

There is an attitude expressed by some who participate here that can be seen as boasting in so far as a condemnation is laid down against all those who have not got in line and confessed the points of certain fundamental doctrines.

The attitudes of the participants here have no bearing whatsoever on the truth or falsehood of the doctrines in question. Let's not get sidetracked.
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The context of Romans 3:23 deals with the idea of a person in a court of law claiming or boasting of right standing in some way or another.

Paul is putting everyone on the same page. We are ALL sinners, therefore one sinner doesn't have the right to personally judge or look down on other sinners. We're all in the same boat.

The point, as I see it, is that persons do not create their own righteousness in court; but, that the rights involved are established by a higher authority--and in the case of Romans, chapter 3, that authority is God.

Let's not confuse righteousness with 'rights.' Righteousness refers to an absolute holy standing before God. A person who is righteous is "right" before God. Paul is saying that there is NO ONE who is righteous - not a single living human being. No one.

..is the one that bestows the righteousness that justifies the individual being charged. Reading, in particular, verse 21 and to the end of the chapter--those two paragraphs seem to express the point quite clearly. The righteousness on which a person stands justified come from God and not from anything a person says or does. It kinda blows organized religion--as we know it--out of the water.

It blows 'organized religion' out of the water IF organized religion sets itself up as the arbiter of who is 'righteous' and who isn't.

It seems like the Glory of God is that [He] is the supreme being that bestows justice on all existence. I think the chapter is an indictment against the priesthood. I know my position is very unpopular--why wouldn't it be?

I think you're reading your own bias into the passage. That said, there is SOME truth to what you're saying. Paul is making clear that no one - priests included - can set themselves up as holy and righteous. God is holy. God is glorious. And all of us - every single one of us - falls short of that. That is Paul's point in Romans 3:23.

Are we talking about unalienable rights here?

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