This new post is about unravelling the mystery of God's Righteousness and also about a lead other blog messages Lord Willing. This is the latest blogpost message about how the scriptures can be semnatical and can cause people to frantically search the scriptures thinking they have eternal life by such and such doctrine causing doctrinal security which doesn't necessarily constitute righteousness but rather Religion.
Basically let's unravel a very great mystery from Scripture Lord Willing. I know the scriptures pretty well and pretty well versed so with that being said I wanted to offer a little bit of help as well as offering my own insights. There's only thing I want to focus on in this message. Basically I am focusing on God's Word rolled together with Man's Obedience or Man's Response to God. So we have God's Word let's examine that as a whole really quick with a brief overview.
God's Word: No way you can you keep it perfectly so don't try
Regardless of what many Christian fundamentalists say what I say is no you can't keep God's Word due to the semantical nature of the scriptures and the high demand of scriptures which we can never meet. We can try to keep God's Word but like the Israelites we should not boast that we can do God's commands since God got very upset about that EX 32:8. The Israelites boasted they could do all that God commanded and then quickly turned away to make the Golden Calf. The point of scripture is so strict not even the Israelites or the Jews could obey the Law of God when it was given by making a Golden Calf or complaining in the wilderness that God abandoned them and thus The Lord was upset with them calling them stiff necked. Paul goes on with even more to say saying that the Church ie New Believers have it even harder by laying down the rules even more severely by telling us not only will we upset God by not doing this or that but we will not enter Heaven for this or that so the Gospel carries stronger guidelines than the Law when it was instituted. So regardless of what anyone will tell you, you can't keep God's Word just like you can't keep the Law since it is a catch 22. Realize that going into this message I am about to portray. The reason I say this is many (self-righteous thinking) Christians think they are already on their way to Heaven when all they found is Religion not perfection. So with that being said we should always take a humble attitude towards the scriptures and not be like the fundamentalists who say for Christians not to listen to Rock & Roll, watch rated R movies, for Christian Men not to have oral sex with their wives, not to watch Harry Potter which is teaching witchcraft (good one!), not to watch TV since it is of the Devil (OMG), not to go to Church since they are all corrupt (you can't be serious), etc. These are the blind teachings of men trying to save themselves which Jesus taught leads to spiritual death. LK 17:33
God's Word: No way you can you keep it perfectly so don't try
Regardless of what many Christian fundamentalists say what I say is no you can't keep God's Word due to the semantical nature of the scriptures and the high demand of scriptures which we can never meet. We can try to keep God's Word but like the Israelites we should not boast that we can do God's commands since God got very upset about that EX 32:8. The Israelites boasted they could do all that God commanded and then quickly turned away to make the Golden Calf. The point of scripture is so strict not even the Israelites or the Jews could obey the Law of God when it was given by making a Golden Calf or complaining in the wilderness that God abandoned them and thus The Lord was upset with them calling them stiff necked. Paul goes on with even more to say saying that the Church ie New Believers have it even harder by laying down the rules even more severely by telling us not only will we upset God by not doing this or that but we will not enter Heaven for this or that so the Gospel carries stronger guidelines than the Law when it was instituted. So regardless of what anyone will tell you, you can't keep God's Word just like you can't keep the Law since it is a catch 22. Realize that going into this message I am about to portray. The reason I say this is many (self-righteous thinking) Christians think they are already on their way to Heaven when all they found is Religion not perfection. So with that being said we should always take a humble attitude towards the scriptures and not be like the fundamentalists who say for Christians not to listen to Rock & Roll, watch rated R movies, for Christian Men not to have oral sex with their wives, not to watch Harry Potter which is teaching witchcraft (good one!), not to watch TV since it is of the Devil (OMG), not to go to Church since they are all corrupt (you can't be serious), etc. These are the blind teachings of men trying to save themselves which Jesus taught leads to spiritual death. LK 17:33
Basically God's Word is very simple to understand in context and form but very complex in word and deed as it says so itself 1 COR 1:21. But somewhere down the line we Christians keep forgetting it's about God and not keeping God's Word as the Israelites were accustomed to. This could be seen as doctrinal idolatry JN 5:39-40. Yet the Jews couldn't keep God's Word perfectly they still tried and try to this very day RM 9:30-31, GAL 2:15-16.
Bare Bones Reality: The Gems of Truth in Scripture
Basically anything God gives us in scripture is a bare bones reality with no parts in it. We decide whether or not to see an R Rated movie according to our own choices. We decide who to marry according to our own desires. We decide what to do with our money. We decide our we choose to serve God in what area. There is so many things God doesn't tell us as far as obedience which is one of the gems of truth from scripture. In essence we decide what could or could not be considered a sin and what is right in our own eyes. If we live according to that reality while following God that is the product of spirituality when we merge our reality with God's reality. In essence what I am saying God doesn't tell you what to do if you are living with an immoral wretched sinner what to do when they ask you to participate in that sin and you feel trapped in to doing that sin thus causing you to sin which in essence puts you at distance with God.
What do the scriptures mean? I don't know. Again I understand the bare bones reality and the gems of truth but because everybody is different everyone's interpretation will vary thus causing everyone's spirituality to be individual not a unified corporate spirituality. That being said I still understand why God tells us not to be too righteous or to think too highly of ourselves as Christians if we know our wicked immoral neighbor is out there rejecting God and we are serving Him doesn't that mean we are leagues ahead and way better by the scriptural standard since God himself says "No one can see God unless they are Holy"? HEB 12:14 but then God says something completely at odds with this by saying don't think of ourselves better than others ie immoral atheists or ungodly Gnostics LK 22:24-26.
Bare Bones Reality: The Gems of Truth in Scripture
Basically anything God gives us in scripture is a bare bones reality with no parts in it. We decide whether or not to see an R Rated movie according to our own choices. We decide who to marry according to our own desires. We decide what to do with our money. We decide our we choose to serve God in what area. There is so many things God doesn't tell us as far as obedience which is one of the gems of truth from scripture. In essence we decide what could or could not be considered a sin and what is right in our own eyes. If we live according to that reality while following God that is the product of spirituality when we merge our reality with God's reality. In essence what I am saying God doesn't tell you what to do if you are living with an immoral wretched sinner what to do when they ask you to participate in that sin and you feel trapped in to doing that sin thus causing you to sin which in essence puts you at distance with God.
What do the scriptures mean? I don't know. Again I understand the bare bones reality and the gems of truth but because everybody is different everyone's interpretation will vary thus causing everyone's spirituality to be individual not a unified corporate spirituality. That being said I still understand why God tells us not to be too righteous or to think too highly of ourselves as Christians if we know our wicked immoral neighbor is out there rejecting God and we are serving Him doesn't that mean we are leagues ahead and way better by the scriptural standard since God himself says "No one can see God unless they are Holy"? HEB 12:14 but then God says something completely at odds with this by saying don't think of ourselves better than others ie immoral atheists or ungodly Gnostics LK 22:24-26.
Righteousness for all vs Righteousness by effort
Wheter you think righteousness comes by faith or by continual effort the effect is the same. Basically the effect is that righteousness comes through grace and that not of ourselves RM 3:22, EPH 2:8-9. What is it since it is neither of these mentioned? It is basically righteousness from God.
Righteousness from God vs Righteousness from Man
We are indicted by God for doing wrong by default and require by God to exact righteousness of which God promises his judgment awaiting those who rebel and his punishment for those who fail RM 3:23. Man is required by God to be righteous an also God is the only one that can provide the righteousness required for Salvation since man's righteousness is ot sufficient to satisfy the perfect requirements of God as per the semantical nature of the scriptures and the overall overly high expectation to perform perfectly when we are not yet perfect but near to perfection due to the perfection of Christ. Also this is where grace comes in to seek and to save us by God's righteousness since our works of righteousness are filthy rags in God's sight and only his grace can satisify his requirements of perfection ie righteousness since again because of the semnatical nature of the scriptures.
More to come hopefully in the future folks Lord Willing as I continue to search the scriptures (not frantically but intimately) and seek the Lord's Will on these issues.
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