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Robert, Jon is content — he simply doesn't fall into the growing list of self righteous people on this page.

@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.

Religious Christians can be some of the most self - righteous people on earth.

Not exact matches

Whenever I write about how success is often based on outworking other people — both in terms of effort and in terms of hours spent — many people respond with righteous indignation.

The same God that makes it rain on the righteous also makes it rain on the unrighteous (and the same for the sun shining)-- God is not a respecter of people that anyone should be treated better than the next.

Jesus insisted that no one is righteous, but that all people depend on the generous mercy of God.

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 fill the TV Churches and send millions of dollars because they prey on your spiritual weakness and your guilt, so you try to buy your way into heaven and appear righteous.

Christians are a bunch of self - righteous people passing there judgement on those who do not believe.

Ask the pastor sitting on his righteous throne to explain how it is that during the holocaust it was secular people who were more likely to help the Jews than the Christians.

His parables frequently end with a «punch line» that presents a challenge to conventional expectation: the scorned Samaritan is the «good» one who proves neighbor to the victim on the Jericho Road; those who come to work late at the harvest are provided the same reward as those who toiled all day; the wayward prodigal son is the one who is feasted; the prayer of a repentant sinner is more acceptable to God than that of a righteous Pharisee.9 Shorter sayings make the same point: A camel could pass through a needle's eye more easily than a person of great wealth can enter into God's inbreaking realm (Mt 19:24).

Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,

What reflects badly on AA is self righteous people like yourself.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

========== Atheists are on this board all day every day with one basic message: «people that believe in the God of Abraham are stupid» (the nice version is «people that believe in God are engaging in holding rational and irrational beliefs simultaneously, but we wont call them «stupid»)», and you never see this kind of outpouring of incensed righteous indignation from Christians.

Atheists are on this board all day every day with one basic message: «people that believe in the God of Abraham are stupid», and you never see this kind of outpouring of incensed righteous indignation from Christians.

The Bible teaches that God created you, me, and all people with an innate, ingrained sense of right and wrong based on His own righteous character.

How many on this comment board truly believe they will go to a heaven (assuming they're righteous and deserving people) when they die?

Don't look down on people as not being as pure and righteous as you are.

Wow — I've been reading these responses plus the comments on the Slice of Laodicea blog — a lot of people seem very angry — a sort of self righteous venomous anger — its kind of scary.

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.

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.

Here the figures of speech, the examples selected, and the persons addressed all belong to the villages of Galilee — the savorless salt thrown into the street, the one lamp that lights the whole household, the village blasphemer with his string of profanity and terms of abuse, the temple pilgrim offering his one gift, the village judge and the jailer, the local ruffian swift to strike, the king's man or garrison officer who compels the peasant to carry his baggage or to yield up his own cloak, the sinner's field wet with the same rain that falls on his righteous neighbor's, the local tax collector, the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, the child asking to be fed, the fruitful trees and the unfruitful, the wise and foolish house - builders.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

In the whole course of the book we can catch hardly a distant echo of the sermon on the Mount... From the Revelation it could never have been gathered that Jesus was compassionate, that he healed the sick and encouraged the helpless and outcast and bore our infirmities, that he was meek and lowly of heart... As we know him from this book, Christ is a great but terrible figure, righteous but implacable, the champion of his people, but breathing destruction on his enemies.»

Jesus condemned pride, unforgiveness, lack of mercy, hatred... and hung out with the people the self - righteous religious hyprocrites looked down on.

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?)

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).

His «constant gripe» about American politicians was that they were «stupider, prouder, more self - righteous, more moralistic, more vain - glorious than the American people on whose behalf they spoke.»

In reflecting on people for whom the word «righteous» seems appropriate, I am reminded of the way the children in C. S. Lewis's Narnia stories come to view Aslan, the lion.

Bob, georgia, and ttwp, nowhere in the so called OT, (the obvious truth book), and truly was named by YHWH, «the book of remembrance» in Malachi 3v16, does it say jesus, nor does it tell of his story, and in all of those scriptures in the chapters that are in Isaiah 40, 41, 42, 43, and 44, are speaking of the servant, the elect, from the «seed» of David, as the future prophecy in Jeremiah 23 vs.1 - 8, and Jeremiah 33 vs.14 - 21 of the righteous BRANCH, named «The Lord (YHWH) Our Righteousness», and not just one person here, and again there is no name of jc here either, and this is taught to us, in Jeremiah 33 vs. 22 that there will be a great number of David's seed to be on the throne.

What's wrong with being glad that a false prophet, a man that stuffed his bank account with righteous dollar bills, a man who preyed on weak minded people for his own financial benefit and the chance to stroke his own ego, was nearly killed?

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.

That is not to say there shouldn't be Christian or other religious values present but it is to say that people shouldn't be conned and public opinion shouldn't be manipulated by claims of righteous values — as we have seen, it is just too easy to fake and sway people to support what may not be in their best interests based on having a cloak of religion.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

Something I am thinking about blogging about tomorrow: how our righteous demands on people in the church actually betray our anxiety.

I think one of the problems is the fact that the chuirch has been so focused on «confessing» of sin to «come back into right relationship with God» after we've stumbled — whereas now people are now seeing GRACE anew — that is that God sees us as perfectly righteous all the time — because He sees Christ in us.

And while technically your stance is more about standing up for the rights of other people to be racist and act accordingly, rather than whether or not you yourself wish to personally discriminate based on race, that doesn't make it any less racist or any more righteous either.

Why and how could Jesus die on the cross for all the sins of all people and satisfy the righteous requirements of God?

In Matthew 23:28, he even addressed this when he said to the crowds, «On the outside, you appear to people as righteous but on the inside, you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness!&raquOn the outside, you appear to people as righteous but on the inside, you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness!&raquon the inside, you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness!»

Just as Israel was called to provide a witness and a testimony to the surrounding people about the goodness and graciousness of God, to be God's voice, hands, and feet on earth, and to call all people to turn from their destructive ways and follow God's righteous ways instead, so also, this is the task of the church (cf. Col 3:12; 1 Pet 1:1 - 2; 2:8 - 9).

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.

So much of what is being said on their side of the blogosphere, and Twitter, the howls of righteous indignation from people whose party took us to two bloody wars and failed to reform the system after 13 years in power, amounts to: «how dare you even speak to the Tories, they are evil, you are evil, Labour will crush you LOLZ».

In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness (Matthew 23:27 - 28).

As usual, leftie self - righteous here more concerned about what people are writing on Twitter than terrorism.

That is our problem in this country, we are very willing to forgive the police their excesses when they infringe on the rights of others, especially when we have convicted those people in our self righteous minds already.Then when these same excesses are extended to us, or those we deem innocent we cry foul.

Your story typifies the mindset of people on there... a debauched online orgy of emotionally crippled people who become righteous at anyone daring to assert their morals.

While Brashear is based on a real - life person and Sunday is a fictional character (a composite of various embodied obstacles in Brashear's Navy career), in George (Soul Food) Tillman Jr.'s film, they come together in a neatly choreographed dance of righteous nobility in the face of ignorance and fear.

This isn't about one righteous man's courage to tell the truth on these backwards and hateful people.

We've heard people diss both plug - in hybrids and big battery Teslas for spending too much time on the plug, and the atmosphere is poisonous with self - righteous entitlement on every side of the issue.