Thursday,
Righteousness is a word describing a state of mind given by God. We cannot understand many words and experiences of this life without God’s intervention. Science cannot define or even begin to imagine what a word like this means. How would you measure a word like this scientifically? What would you measure, so you could compare the idea, image or belief among various people? What brain waves could you measure to tell the difference between levels of righteousness between people?
So many Bible terms are hard to define. Take this one for example. If a person follows the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament perfectly then he/she would be declared righteous. Righteousness is a trait of God, not of the gods. An attribute of God that was bestowed on men who failed to obey the commandments, but whom God declared because of a relationship with Him. According to the New Testament, only one man in the whole universe was bestowed with this character of righteousness.
Romans 8:1-4 states that God can provide this godly trait in man through the one man that was truly righteous. No tests and x-rays in the world can detect the transformation in the brain of a gift of righteousness from God, but what is evident is the change in the actions of a human being who realizes they have now no condemnation in a relationship with God.
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