I think that the people who are going to fix things eventually are not necessarily going to be good and
righteous people like we all expect them to be.
Sshhh, he thinks Lincoln forced the South to accept slavery before
the righteous people in the South won the War of Northern Aggression.
One needs critical theory to track them all, and, yes, there always are stupid, self -
righteous people eager to take offense.
Is it just a matter of stupid, self -
righteous people eager to take offense?
Robert, Jon is content — he simply doesn't fall into the growing list of self
righteous people on this page.
They are clearly impervious to reason and telling a bunch of
righteous people that they are not right just winds them up.
There are so many sad kids out there (abused by their care givers, etc) that
righteous people ought to try to help than to vent their spleen on a humour site.
Our motives were a tangle of concern for the Vietnamese and for our own self - image as
righteous people.
A few
righteous people disappeared, but nobody well known, for obvious reasons.
Actually it could have happened this past May, and all of
the righteous people really did disappear, all two of them.
God sent to angels to get the only few
righteous people out before the two cities were destroyed.
Atheists have little patience for self -
righteous people who arrogantly spew obvious myth and legend composed of illogical nonsense.
These are just and reasonable demands of
righteous people and a righteous public, but for too many of our citizens a different reality exists.
Eze 23:45 But
righteous people will judge these sister cities for what they really are — adulterers and murderers.
Lot and his family were the only
righteous people in the entire city, and He made sure they were removed — escorted by angels — before destroying it.
Then, Abraham negotiates with God as to the number of
righteous people in Sodom.
If God has a policy of non-intervention, if nature is out of control, if the destroyer destroys, and if sin cannibalizes itself, how could God have stepped in and stopped all this if He had found ten
righteous people in the city?
Abraham, knowing that Lot and his family lived in Sodom, pled with God to not destroy the cities if
righteous people could be found within.
The first hint is in the intercessionary prayer of Abraham to spare the city if
righteous people lived within it.
In one of the most amazing and challenging passages about intercessionary prayer in the Bible, Abraham goes from persuading God to spare the cities if fifty
righteous people are found within them, all the way down to only ten
righteous people (Genesis 18:23 - 33).
God seems to have no idea as to how many
righteous people are living in Sodom, again, not the sign of an all - knowing God.
@Acroyear I was with you until you called christians «ordinary ethical and loving human being» they are the most intolerant, narrow - minded, self -
righteous people on the planet.
I tell you, so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety - nine
righteous people who need no repentance.
We know from Abraham's appeal on behalf of Sodom and Gomorra that God will spare a whole city of sinners for the sake of a handful of
righteous people.
There is a Jewish tradition of even the most
righteous people objecting to G - d's decisions.
While in the case of the Canaanites God poured his judgement on human wickedness, through His chosen, but, alas, not
righteous people, God's justice is supremely displayed at the Cross where the sinless Son of God bore the judgment of all human wickedness.
God sets out to obliterate everybody in Sodom and Gomorrah, but Abraham gets him to agree to not destroy these cities if 10
righteous people can be found in them.
While I do not believe that good and
righteous people who love God will always have life turn out peachy keen, I nevertheless have a big problem with a God who uses humans the way that God uses Job in these two chapters.
this should in no way dissuade
righteous people cos the path of the just is as the shining light that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.
Just as healthy people don't need doctors,
righteous people don't need repentance.
It isn't healthy to teach children to be intolerant self
righteous people either.
Yes he does resemble Obama but who cares its just a coincidence people - Satan is not real except for those who want him to be-the self
righteous people who think they are going to heaven.
A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were
the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.
The Pharisees we see in the Gospels were good men; they were morally
righteous people.
What reflects badly on AA is self
righteous people like yourself.
Christians are a bunch of self -
righteous people passing there judgement on those who do not believe.
There is a scripture that says in Proverbs chapter 12 that
righteous people take care of their animals and are compassionate towards living creatures.
Religious Christians can be some of the most self -
righteous people on earth.
And he (at least tacitly) accepts that politics — the life of cities — necessarily involves the suffering of at least some innocent and
righteous people.
Including your caricature of the matter that reduces this to implying that self -
righteous people take food from children for silly peripheral issues.
«9 Jesus made the same point sharply in his parable of the lost sheep: «I tell you there will be greater joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety - nine
righteous people who do not need to repent» (Luke 15:7).
Actually, if anything makes God vomit, it's self -
righteous people who are always preaching about the «sins» of other people.
It wasn't just Moses who argued, but also Abraham — he of the «for the sake of 10
righteous people...».
What is the saving effect of having
righteous people in allegedly wicked cities?
It is my thesis that throughout history, but especially today, most violence is done by
righteous people.
When it comes to discussing who Jesus hung out with, the choice is not between
the righteous people and the unrighteous people (for all are unrighteous), but rather between the religious and the non-religious.
And you are right, sometimes the worst place we can be is with self -
righteous people who hatefully bash others.
«nothing the Church does to solve their problems will ever be enough to all the self -
righteous people that hate the Catholic Church.»
The angels were actually there to try and find JUST 10
righteous people and God would spare the city.
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.