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Originally Posted by Igzy
If "life" is in opposition to good and evil, it is only that mistaken idea of what is good and evil borne of being independent of God. But the Bible never indicts the essential idea of good and evil the way the LRC has done. And it never indicts genuine acts of goodness which were not borne of "life." Jesus regularly praised people who did the right thing, but those people didn't have access to zoe life. They were simply following God commandments. I.e. doing good.
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Following this thought, nothing brings more shame to the Lord's excellent name than when His ministers twist the teachings of the Bible for their own base and selfish gain. How many ministers have been "protected" by their paid underlings so that their own misbehaviors would not be made public. This kind of "protection" only serves to enable further unrighteousness by the minister, since paid lackeys continually assist him to escape culpability.
The Lord Jesus and the Apostles spoke differently concerning right and wrong. Paul says the kingdom of God is
firstly righteousness. Righteousness is absolutely linked to right and wrong, that is doing right and not doing wrong. If we do not pay attention to matters of right and wrong, then we can never be righteous, and we will bring further shame to his name.