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.
What reflects badly on AA is self
righteous people like yourself.
Not exact matches
If it weren't for
people like you and Naked Pastor, many folks — myself included — would have said to hell with the churches, they're all a bunch of hypocritical, self -
righteous bigots.
People who are in their final stages don't need self -
righteous folks
like you making themselves feel better by spouting out their beliefs.
People like Santorum remind me of the Pharasees who were careful to show up in the temple full of pride and self
righteous indignation for anyone who dared to question their rigid ideology yet never took one step towards bettering conditions in their society or spoke out against social and economic injustice.
That's why Jesus always ridiculed the self -
righteous pompous
people like Fox news and the rich, but chose to be with the sick, the Gentiles and those who were put away by society.
We are all guilty of sin so
people need to stop acting self
righteous like they do nt actually commit sin anymore!
It's an important read because a lot of Christians
like to imagine that
people of faith were on the «
righteous side» of history on this, but the fact is, Christians were split.
People like us shy away from holiness, worried about ostentatiousness or self -
righteous punctiliousness.
A lot of
people like to justify their anger by calling it «
righteous.»
The sense of the prophetic ethic and morality is always something
like this: «You shall refrain from this practice, or you shall do thus - and - so, because I am Yahweh who brought you up out of Egypt [election] and you are a
people voluntarily committed in return to the performance of my just and
righteous will [covenant].»
We have become way too much eyeball
people as Christians assume that those who don't live according to the way they do they are unsaved, we have created this judgemental relationship which hurts
peoples fellowship with God, there are no litmus tests for
people that believe in Jesus, which is why we are called to not judge others, and
people use James 2:14, and 1 John's verse of those who practices righteousness are
righteous even though I think it's talking about earthly righteousness toward
people that we as Christians should show because there is a lost world out there that needs are help and these doctrines of guilt, condemnation, anger, and judgement aren't helping in fact they are doing the opposite, just
like how in James it's justification towards man.
If we should discover mistakes in the scriptures of their religions or should observe the misconduct of their followers we should not attribute these defaults and shortcomings to the founders of those religions, inasmuch as the perversion of scriptures is possible and it is possible that mistakes of interpretation might find their way into the commentaries, but it is not at all possible that a
person should fabricate lies against God and should claim to be a prophet and should put forward his own compositions as the word of God falsely and yet God should grant him respite
like the
righteous and should bestow upon him wide acceptance by
people (Tohfa Qaisariyyah, p. g 10).
Its disgusting to see
people like that being fawned over by other «
righteous»
people.
If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with
people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things
like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the
righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)
God is also a
righteous judge,
people don't
like that part.
If the prophets speak on behalf of social and economic justice, they do not preach a general abstract morality, but pointedly and specifically proclaim an election / covenant ethic, the sense of which is something
like this: You shall refrain from this practice, or you shall do thus - and - so, because I am Yahweh who brought you up out of Egypt (election) and you are a
people voluntarily committed in return to the performance of my
righteous will (covenant).
Ah, the sickeningly sweet (
like decay) of the self
righteous special
people, blessed by god for their highly moral stance.
Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being
righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will
like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling
like todays churches in not
like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and
people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be
like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young
people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that
person» not the sin but the
person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!
And they
like to accuse
people who have faith of being self -
righteous, bigoted, and unthinking.
I won't act self -
righteous and hâteful
like those despïcable
people in the Westboro Baptist Church.
It is
like in the days of Jesus when certain religious
people would pray out loud on the street corners and in the marketplace and have their prayer tassles longer than others just so they could be seen to be
righteous.
In their quest for righteousness, they often become self
righteous, using their belief system as a weapon, to bash over the heads of others, rather than as a tool to improve their own lives and to become a living example of what true christians should be
like or what truly compassionate humans should be
like, it's very sad, that so many christians don't have a clue how to act
like decent
people, and that they are hypocrites and full of hate.
If we are all gods, then when one performs a
righteous act, it may only prove (to someone
like you), that that one
person is a god.
It's
people like you that make me think that anyone AP is a judgemental, self -
righteous jerk!
Like the film itself, Porter's handful of devoted, charismatic attorneys do a
righteous job of reminding
people that the accused are innocent until proven guilty, and that the criminal justice system seems otherwise disposed.
It feels good to join in solidarity with
like - minded
people in spreading a
righteous message, but it is difficult to accept the frequent reality that most
people aren't paying attention to it.
The game looks and plays a lot
like a more refined and
righteous version of Grand Theft Auto V - you're not going to find
people shooting each other in a drive - by during broad daylight, nor will you find yourself looking to do the same.
I'm not trying to be the savior of the site or the
righteous one, I would just
like to be able to read both 360 and PS3 news and read
peoples comments on the news without having to sift through a bunch of BS spew out by a bunch of jerks the don't give - a-sh!