28 Jul '17 07:34>
Originally posted by @kellyjaySorry Kelly but I really don't think you are addressing the passage provided:
As I said, "God grants His righteousness upon those He chooses" if they want to believe
people can stand before the Lord God Almighty who is Holy in their own righteousness,
they have a high opinion of people, and a low opinion of a Holy God.
"Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God."
Here we have a man who is judged righteous by God and who walked faithfully with Him. What we don't have is a record of a man who was gifted this righteousness. Indeed, it is 'because' Noah was righteous (in his own right) and faithful to God that he and his family were sparred the flood. (Allegedly). What sense would it make for God to arbitrarily make someone righteous and then save them for being so?