(March 16, 2018 at 10:49 am)Drich Wrote:(March 14, 2018 at 9:37 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: You didn't understand the unabridged version, so I strongly doubt you would understand a condensed version. With regard to your objections, I'm reminded of the remark that, "That is not only not right; it is not even wrong." Regardless, I'm not feeling particularly well, so I'm going to defer a longer response to another time. I would only comment that in your rush to refute my position, you failed to first acquire an adequate grasp of what I was saying.
Thank you for your response.
...Or maybe your view of Christianity is wrong, and you are trying to understand what I said through your view or rather what you think I should have said to you filtered through your lens of a 'moral God'/what makes this god's morality better than anyone else..
When in truth morality, right/wrong has nothing to do with God, as God does not hold us to a standard of 'morality' to judge us worthy. He hold Christ to that standard as we put on Christ's righteousness in place of our own.
Your whole God view is based on a jeudeo/catholic understanding of a works/Deeds based God. Where obedience and works yield righteousness. Again not the case. If you understood this to be not the case you would not have sought to rectify the morality of God over that of any other standard. As God's law/morality only serves one purpose, and that is to point out sin in the unrepentant, and to judge them. Once one repents the law becomes moot to us as t is moot to Christ.
Drich
I was responding to Jörmungandr When I made my statement. It is important to keep the commandments:
(Old Testament | Ecclesiastes 12:13 - 14)
13 ¶ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
(New Testament | John 14:15)
15 ¶ If ye love me, keep my commandments.
(New Testament | Matthew 5:16 - 20)
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
17 ¶ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
