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Originally Posted by Ferd
I guess I am back to being a hairy tick.
I do not believe that "His righteousness" is in us.
The way I read scripture, he has stamped us with HIS righteousness. In other words, he looks at us thru the lens of his Righteousness when we become his children.
His Righteousness does not make us holy any more than our own carnal "righteousness" gives us "Right Standing" before him.
Second. Holiness while inseparable from Righteousness is not extended to us nor is it applied to us as Righteousness is. Scripture repeats in both Old and New Testament, that we are to "be Holy". It is a command. At the same time, scripture tells us not to even try to "be righteous.”
I liken it to me telling my son, You are my son and there is nothing you can do to earn that status. NOW ACT LIKE IT.
Righteousness is extended because we have been adopted. We have taken on “right standing” in the Family by coming to God. Holiness is us acting like it.
Now go back to thinking you were made holy.
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Exactly!!! Yet, religion instructs us to never stop trying to earn it.
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