The Ground — Lee's Answer to Jesus' Prayer for Unity

[aron]

Originally Posted by OBW

aron,

I think that viewing all references to a "righteous man" as only applying to Jesus is to miss the transformation of our being.

My method is to overstate my point, and oversimplify it. In actuality the phrase "only Jesus is the righteous One" has to have qualifiers. Jesus fulfilled the premise in full, and now we are to follow Him. So the "assembly of the righteous" in the end of Psalm 1 isn't a mis-print. Yes, that's supposed to be us, and that (to me) syncs quite well with the NT.

WL essentially said, "there is no righteous man" and moved on. That was what I was objecting to. But I didn't mean for my blunt statements to be dogmatic formulations.