15 Feb '17 20:45>
I'm so good I should be getting paid for being here and doing this!
Originally posted by josephwThe best I can be.
I'm so good I should be getting paid for being here and doing this!
" For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but to work out the good is not.
for I do not do the good which I will; but the evil which I do not will, this I practice." (Rom. 7:19,20)
" Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?
Thanks be to God , through Jesus Christ our Lord! ..." (Rom. 7:24)
" Him who did not know sin He made sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." (2 Cor. 5:21)
Originally posted by karoly aczelI think someone in this thread has a lower rating than you.
Yeah, on these forums I'm the worst.
(You really believe this means something don't you? I think Joseph had his tongue firmly planted in his mouth)
Originally posted by sonshipIn myself, apart from Christ I am only good for the lake of fire.
In myself, apart from Christ I am only good for the lake of fire.
But in Christ God looks upon me as the very righteousness of God in Him.
The very good man created by God [b](Gen. 1:34) became polluted and corrupted in his fallen body by coming into a union with Satan.
Paul, when he was a strict religious Pharisee, came to realize that in h ...[text shortened]... udgment.
Joined to Christ I am saved and become the righteousness of God via union with Christ.[/b]
Originally posted by robbie carrobieYou seem to be keeping your furry little head down these days Robert.
Good is an interesting term, one tends to see it in terms of morality and in comparison to its opposite bad. To the ancient Greeks it was more like a kind of virtue that anything could display e.g. a cow was good if it gave milk, a pen if it was able to write etc In a Biblical context goodness (the quality or state of being good) is a positive qua ...[text shortened]... in the performance of beneficial acts toward others and not a passive quality that one possess.