Originally posted by @rajk999 Can't see anything about the Pharisees being very righteous
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"The Pharisees also maintained that an after-life existed and that God punished the wicked and rewarded the righteous in the world to come. They also believed in a messiah who would herald an era of world peace."
Originally posted by @eladar As to the Law, a Pharisee.
And thats very righteous? I know you are missing more than a few screws.
Continuing to make a pile of nonsensical statements as if they are in the Bible.
So you could stay with your ridiculous opinion about the Pharisees being VERY RIGHTEOUS.
I will stay with what Jesus said:
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres,
which indeed appear beautiful outward,
but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men,
but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (Matthew 23:27-28 KJV)
If you call that VERY RIGHTEOUS, then your standard of righteousness must be in the gutter.
Originally posted by @rajk999 And thats very righteous? I know you are missing more than a few screws.
Continuing to make a pile of nonsensical statements as if they are in the Bible.
So you could stay with your ridiculous opinion about the Pharisees being VERY RIGHTEOUS.
I will stay with what Jesus said:
[i]Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, [b]hypocrites! for ye are li ...[text shortened]... ]
If you call that VERY RIGHTEOUS, then your standard of righteousness must be in the gutter.[/b]
Originally posted by @eladar Externally righteous, whitewashed tombs.
You quote it yourself and can't see it.
"Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men,
but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."
The key here is that they only "outwardly appear righteous unto men" while the reality is that they "are full of hypocrisy and iniquity". This means that they weren't really righteous. They only appeared to be righteous.
What's amazing is that you quote it and accuse rajk999 of not being able to see it when you're the one who is blind.
Originally posted by @thinkofone "Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men,
but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."
The key here is that they only "outwardly appear righteous unto men" while the reality is that they "are full of hypocrisy and iniquity". This means that they weren't really righteous. They only appeared to be righteous.
What's amazing is that you quote it and accuse rajk999 of not being able to see it when you're the one who is blind.
How are you to know the difference between apparent righteousness and actual righteousness?
Originally posted by @eladar How would you know if a person who appears to be righteous really isn't? Your theology is built around apparent righteousness.
So why would I need to know that?
I dont care to know who is and who is not righteous
Why do you care to know that?
Originally posted by @eladar How are you to know the difference between apparent righteousness and actual righteousness?
I'll try to lay it out even more simply for you.
The key phrase is "outwardly appear righteous unto men". The Pharisees believed that they understood the will of God and were able to convince people that they understood the will of God. If you've paid attention to all the things that Jesus said to and about the Pharisees, then you should know that they didn't know the will of God. They didn't understand what it truly meant to be righteous. The bottom line is that they weren't really righteous.
Originally posted by @thinkofone I'll try to lay it out even more simply for you.
The key phrase is "outwardly appear righteous unto men". The Pharisees believed that they understood the will of God and were able to convince people that they understood the will of God. If you've paid attention to all the things that Jesus said to and about the Pharisees, then you should know that the ...[text shortened]... ly meant to be righteous. The bottom line is that they weren't really righteous.
Understand?
If they were doing the outward stuff wrong, why would Jesus say they look good on the outside?
28 Jul '17 22:05
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