A second principle, closely and indeed inseparably connected to the first, has to do with the universality of God's judgment in relation to which our fundamental human condition is disclosed
as unrighteous whether as observers or as violators of «the Law.»
Not to worry, he takes out the righteous as well
as the unrighteous.
Not exact matches
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for
as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the
unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.
Most of the righteous people I see are agnostics and atheists; most of the
unrighteous people I see are those who claim their god is going to punish and burn people who don't have the same non-provable OPINIONS
as they do.
The
unrighteous actions are what Christians refer to
as Evil (or satan).
But trying to keep the law is
as pointless
as it was before I knew I was
unrighteous.
They tended to see society and the world
as split between the righteous and the
unrighteous.
1) Eternal fire (Psalm 11:6, Matthew 5:22, Matthew 13:42, Matthew 13:50, Matthew 18:7 - 9, Matthew 25:41, Jude 7) Isaiah 30:30,33 — Isaiah speaks of Topheth in the valley of Hinnom, where before it became Gehenna — the burning trash dump outside Jerusalem — it was the place of pagan worship where people burned alive their own children to their false god, Molech (2 Chronicles 28:3, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 19:2 - 6) and God uses this
as an illustration of a place where God will burn alive the
unrighteous
For instance, it speaks of the earth and heaven, Lord - men, Hell and heaven, 3 good deeds and by implication its opposite the bad deeds, righteous soul and by implication the
unrighteous soul, at the judgment day4; Light - darkness, believers - unbelievers; 5 God - creation; 6 servant - master; 7 Good - evil.8 There also the repetitive emphasis on the otherness of God
as in the notions of «the Lord of the Throne of Glory Supreme», 9 «Lord of the Throne of Honor; «10 emphasis on His power «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and so on.
«What knowledge could be of greater importance to the men of our age, and to the various communities of our time,» wrote Buber in 1947, than that «the use of unrighteousness
as a means to a righteous end makes the end itself
unrighteous?»
Acceptance or accommodation of evil
as practiced by many people is an
unrighteous attribute of Satan.
God hate those who are
unrighteous as well.
Though there be critical ones thinking among the topmost branches of civilizations trees of disparagement offerings: the rooted labyrinths of reasoned deducing ways offers little minded goodness to be availed unto the soulless seekers whose only wisdom is found within travesty's demonic exuberances laying ever wastefully towards all graven worded reconciliations that the demonic do behest against many a Holy Believer in and of God's most
unrighteous beneficiaries
as being an unholy divider in search of disenfranchised souls to devour and chew upon...
But Jesus told us to offer grace without boundaries, recorded in Matthew 5f, that we were to be perfect
as our heavenly Father — who even causes the rain to fall of the fields of the righteous and
unrighteous.
In the NT the word gehenna is presented
as the place in which the
unrighteous will be thrown after the last judgment — a place of matyrdom for both body and soul
as declared in Matt 5:29 - 30.
John awaita the resurrection like all the rest of the righteous and
unrighteous (see Acts 24:15) also
as Jesus went to (hades, sheol, hell) we all go to the common grave awaiting the resurrection.
The futuristic element blends with the moral
as he says in I Corinthians 6:9, «Do you not know that the
unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?»
God's righteousness is his justice, and his justice is manifest in his working to put down the
unrighteous, expose idols, show mercy, and achieve reconciliation in a new order which expresses man s dignity
as bearer of the divine image.
19 Such concepts, familiar to his hearers,
as the awful fate of the
unrighteous, the bliss of the redeemed, and the expected dramatic coming of the Son of man, were employed by Jesus to drive home to his hearers the ultimate and absolute nature of the kingdom and its entrance into history through the message which God had given him to proclaim.
And the fact that some, I believe if world war broke out, would see it
as * the sign * of the rapture being near, and begin to salivate
as the peaceful Jesus is now coming
as a warrior to send the «
unrighteous» to hell.
When works are righteousness are done with this
as the motivation, they not only
unrighteous acts before God, but are the worst kind of unrighteousness.
As for Jeremiah, he plainly universalized and spiritualized Yahweh and so identified him with righteousness that, in the prophet's eyes, to be
unrighteous was in itself to «serve other gods.»
Isaiah 55:7 - 9 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the
unrighteous man his thoughts:... For
as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
It is truth that the real sons of God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of the body's «inwardnessed» inter-cellular cosmologies
as occasional protrutions of insolent «activists» that are sometimes revolting against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many
unrighteous undulations of physical travesties not uncommonly being viewed by us celestial beings
as being viral and even bacteriological undoings upon one's bodies in the way we understand things to be and therefore become.
Jesus says he was
unrighteous, which is not a comment about his abilities
as a jurist.