It's bound to read like coaching soup for the soul, but those who build a following on faith are bound to be held to a
high standard of righteousness.
They don't effect reality of God, who He is,
His standard of righteousness, His truth, and my relationship with Him....
Moral pride claims that
its standard of righteousness is the final standard; that makes its virtue the vehicle of a pharisaic sin.
In other words, since God's
standard of righteousness is too high for us to realistically follow, we can lower the standard by picking which commands and rules to obey.
While the Law is
the standard of righteousness, grace is the source of righteousness.
Either the New Testament is to be supreme, and we are to judge our nation in the light of
its standards of righteousness and spiritual greatness, or the so - called American way of life is to be our substitute religion, and the church is to be its mouthpiece.
But whether you are atheist to or agnostic, you must acknowledge that there is
a Standard of righteousness, and by your life you described, you must already acknowledged it.
«there is
a standard of righteousness that might does not make right (having control of the OTSP does not automatically make your advice correct), that the end does not justify the means («Saving the Earth» does not mean you can trample on others God given rights), and that expediency as a working principle is bound to fail (i.e. «adjusting data» to scare people).