Reading Time: 3 minutesAnother verse from the Christian scriptures where it’s clear righteousness doesn’t mean righteousness.
Another Verse Where Righteousness Means Tzedakah, Acts 10:35 Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis, by Dr. Richard Moore, who at the time was Professor of New Testament at The Baptist Theological College of Western Australia, was really good on the Greek words translated "righteousness" and "justification" and why the translation of those words might be wrong and lead to confusion.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHere’s a scripture I just came across while reading 1 John this morning, where you can see, from the context, that John is using the word righteousness with the Jewish sense of tzedakah, meaning helping the poor.
Another Scripture Where Righteousness Means Tzedakah, 1 John 3:10 Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Bible word “righteousness,” and the related words “justify,” “justification,” etc., are the most important words in Western, i.e. Roman Catholic and Protestant, Christianity, but it turns out, “righteousness” doesn’t even necessarily mean “righteousness.”
Righteousness Doesn’t Even Necessarily Mean Righteousness Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere’s a general mistaken understanding among Christians as to why Jewish people kept the law, most believe that they were doing so in order to be righteous. This is a mistake both because that was not their motivation but also because it fails to understand the meaning of the Hebrew word we translate as “righteous, just, justified, etc.”
I’ve long had a question as to what Jews of Jesus day did with the promises made to them in the Torah, the law, the teaching, the first five books of the Bible. For example the promise: