Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article

To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Our righteousness is as filthy rags before the Lord.

No, you are wrong. Our righteousness is a way of showing the Lord we are trying, which is what He commanded of us.

Our righteousness will NEVER be enought to save us; that's what the Lord's atoning sacrifice was for. But it is no more "filthy rags" to him than the efforts of a little child to walk and to talk, however clumsily, is not "stupidity and idiocy" to his parents. The parents are proud the child is beginning to show forth an effort, proud that he is on his way to progression.

That is how our Father in Heaven views us, with love and compassion and complete understanding.

The god you describe is a monster, and I want nothing to do with him. IF I'm going to swallow man-made lies, I'll instead swallow the man-made lies of, say, the Buddhists. At least there's peace involved.

390 posted on 02/18/2003 11:01:33 AM PST by Illbay (If the hunger for liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty. - Will Durant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 387 | View Replies ]


To: Illbay
Our righteousness is as filthy rags before the Lord.

**No, you are wrong. Our righteousness is a way of showing the Lord we are trying, which is what He
commanded of us.**

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy(menestrual) rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind have taken us away. Isaiah 64:6
This "monster" as you call him sent his only begotten son to die in your place for the sins you have committed.

When people asked Jesus to heal and save them he did demanding nothing beforehand. When people asked for something to DO to be saved he gave them impossible tasks.
"For I say unto you that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and pharisees ye shall in no case inter into the kingdom of heaven." matt 5:20
Good Master what shall I DO to inherit eternal life?..."sell all that thou hast and distribute it unto the poor and thou shalt have treasure ib heaven...Luke 18:18-23
And behold, one came and said unto him "Good Master, what GOOD THING shall I do that I may have eternal life? Matt 19: 16-22.

So, Illybay, have YOU sold all you have and given it to the poor?
395 posted on 02/18/2003 11:31:14 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Jesus paid it all. All to HIM I owe. Sin has left a crimson stain, He washes white as snow.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 390 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson