Protestantism

» pink101 - An Indictment

In response to An Indictment posted by BrianTubbs:
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I think you might be wrong.
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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..
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One's standing is a court refers directly to their rights.
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I think what Paul is saying is that no one is righteous outside of the rights they get from God. I'm saying that the rights we get from God are unalienable and I think there are a lot of people who agree with me. The idea here is that you cannot earn your righteousness; but, that your rights come from God.
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The idea that God is the one that bestows us with those rights and that we are thereby justified in our being is to God's glory.
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There is a tendency to overly simplify these particular points to make them fit into Old Testament theology--that is one of the main problems with Fundamentalist Theology. At least, in my thinking. But, who am I? Right?
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-- posted by pink101