Question for Fundamentalists...?

Question

Since Fundamentalists believe that no one, not even the Virgin Mary, can be without sin, who do Fundamentalists think the righteous are that are talked about so often throughout all of the Bible?

Answer 1

God's grace alone makes one righteous. It is not a work of our own, but the Lord's. The Bible uses clear past and present tense language to identify the righteous.

Answer 2

Well, I'm not a part of the group generally lumped together as "Fundamentalist", but I think I know the answer. At least, it's what I believe, which may be similar to theirs. Here's two scriptures that mention the 'righteous and unrighteous:' (In another translation it says "just and unjust.") Matthew 5: 45; Acts 22: 15. Righteous cannot mean "perfect" since it's talking about here on earth, now (or back then in the past). So righteous means someone who, though still a sinner, makes the conscious effort to do God's will, to be pleasing to him in their daily life. Whereas unrighteous--unjust--is someone who either knowingly ignores God's commands, or does not know anything about him, thus unwittingly contuing on doing what is displeasing to him.

Answer 3

Here's a couple examples..God bless...
Do the righteous flourish or perish?

Ps.92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree.

Isa.57:1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart.




When you rip verses out of context, of course they won't make sense. Psalm 92 is a psalm of praise. It is speaking of the righteous in eternity. In other words, it speaks of the blessed hope. "Though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed" (v. 7). You see, while the wicked may flourish in this life on earth, the righteous will flourish for eternity with the Lord. If you read the entire Psalm, the eschatological meaning becomes abundantly clear.

Now, the verse in Isaiah, is speaking of the present. Reading the verse in context helps tremendously.

Isa.57:1-2 The righteous perish, and no one ponders it in his heart; devout men are taken away and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death. (NIV)

When the righteous perish, they are being spared from evil and enter into an eternity of peace. They flourish while the wicked spend eternity in hell. No contradiction here. Just a lack of context.

Answer 4

The righteous that the Bible talks about are those who have repented of their sins and believed that Jesus Christ died and arose again from the dead to pay the price for their sins.
"But God be thanked,that whereas ye were the servants of sin,ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Being,then,made free from sin,ye became the servants of righteousness." Romans 6:17-18 KJV

Answer 5

We are made righteous through Jesus Christ.

Philippians 3:9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

Psalms 14: 1-
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God. They have all turned aside, They have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, No, not one.

Answer 6

i'm so relieved once I hear yet another Christian say something that i've got been questioning all alongside. i became taught to love my friends as i admire myself besides added as nicely loving God it particularly is maximum mandatory. i desire that we are continually unfastened to prepare faith as we see in wonderful condition. even nonetheless there's a large difference in that as quickly as Christians kill all of us agree it particularly is erroneous and are not sympathetic to their challenge of homicide and the Muslims are. additionally as I even have not study their sacred text cloth the Koran and that i've got considered some very annoying comments appropriate to the e book in this talk board yet I even have additionally considered costs from our text cloth that are annoying the way they are used. till I study it for myself i'm unlikely to assert that it particularly is perverted. perhaps that's what he suggested muhammed I mean to kill each and all of the infedels. At any fee nonetheless all Muslims at the instant are not terrorist reason on killing us yet there are a strategies too many that sympathise and help the terrorist. i discover that annoying. Like we would not come and kill you in case you probably did no longer help Isreal is the techniques-set you get from maximum of. yet if by making use of the shortcoming of love the folk claiming to be contributors of God's church reasons human beings to tutor much extra removed from God then perhaps it particularly is barely as undesirable. individually i could go through actual dying previously religious dying if I had that selection. To on no account enter into God's presence is undesirable. And what if the fundamentalist Christians have particularly by way of the a while brought about the dislike of the Muslims. I even have been praying for God to artwork a miracle in Bin encumbered's life so as that he will lead his followers down the direction of love and reconciliation the place all of us understand that God abides. perhaps you are able to connect in my prayer.

Answer 7

We that have accepted the free gift of salvation , God has given us his rightesnouss as though we have never sinned .

Answer 8

certainly not them, although in their eyes they are. that makes them self righteous.

Answer 9

Uh oh. She's gotcha there!!!