renniks
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Lol, I've been reading the Bible for 40 plus years.Ok,
So, you think when you do good works for God.
God looks at your obedience to His commandments as filthy rags? God must not love you renniks.
When I do obedient works God loves me for it and blesses me. After all God created us for good works, Epheasians 2:10.
Isaiah 64:6
But we are like an unclean thing, And all our righteousness are like filthy rags: we all fade as a leaf, and our sins, like the wind, HAVE TAKEN US AWAY.
Hmmm, You know those who are seperated from God are unclean. Why?
Because their sins have not been removed by God.
Why are these Hebrews unclean? Because they are living in sin. They must be rebelling against God.
Otherwise, they would not be unclean!!!
These unclean jews righteousness are like filthy rags to God.
Can a unclean rebellious sinner be righteous? Not if they continue to rebel against their God, as they are doing here.
So, what kind of righteousness are these unclean jews practicing?
Well, what kind of righteousness do all rebellious sinners practise?
Maybe? SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS!!!!
Would self- righteousness be as filthy rags to God?
Would works man does for himself instead of for God be as filthy rags to God?
Why yes, those kind of works, the works of self-righteous man, not the works of God are as filthy rags to God.
renniks ,you should read the book of Isaiah. It would do you a world of good.
Same chapter 64:4-7
For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides you,
Who acts for the one who waits for Him.
You meet him who rejoices and DOES RIGHTEOUSNESS, who REMEBERS YOU IN YOUR WAYS.
YOU ARE INDEED ANGRY, ANGRY, ANGRY, FOR WE HAVE SINNED, SINNED, SINNED-
IN THESE WAYS WE CONTINUE, CONTINUE, CONTINUE,;
AND WE NEED TO BE SAVED, SAVED, SAVED, SAVED,
BUT WE ARE ALL LIKE AN UNCLEAN THING,
AND ALL, ALL, ALL, OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS ARE LIKE FILTHY RAGS:
We all fade as a leaf,
And our SINS, SINS, SINS, LIKE THE WIND,
HAVE TAKEN US AWAY, AWAY, AWAY.
AND THERE IS NO ONE, NO ONE, NO ONE, WHO CALLS ON YOUR NAME
who stirs himself up to take hold of You;
FOR YOU HAVE HIDDEN YOUR FACE FROM US
AND HAVE CONSUMED US BECAUSE OF OUR SINS.
renniks, it is past time for you, to start reading your Bible and stop repeating the same error of your churches reinterpretation of the scriptures.
You cannot be saved by your good works, because no matter how hard you try, your “good” is not good enough for the perfectly holy and completely righteous God.
The Hebrew phrase for filthy rags, ukabeged ehdim, actually means, “like as rags of menstruation.”
Fortunately, "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him
we might become the righteousness of God.”
And:
"I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing
Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them
[our best efforts] rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him,
not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law,
but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness
that comes from God and is by faith.”
(Philippians 3:8-9 )
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