The Bible says no one is righteous, not even one (Ro 3:10; Ps 14:3).)
People like you SNIP proof texts out of context and deceive people by not revealing the surrounding context. Your use of "none righteous, not even one" is a perfect example.
Paul writes...
Rom 3:10
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Rom 3:11
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Rom 3:12
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Rom 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Rom 3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Rom 3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Rom 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
Rom 3:17 And the way of peace have they not known:
Rom 3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
That sentiment being quoted from...
Psa 14:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psa 14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon
the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Psa 14:3
They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psa 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Psa 53:1 To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
Psa 53:2
God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
Psa 53:3
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psa 53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Both Psalm 14 and Psalm 53 are speaking of the fool who denies God. Of those fools there is none righteous, not even one. It is those fools who have all gone astray, who are filthy, who don't do any good. It is these fools who do not understand.
Paul in Romans 3 is making an argument that it is BOTH the Jews and the Gentile people who need Jesus Christ which is why he says...
Rom 3:9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Are the Jews better than the Gentiles because they were committed the oracles of God (Rom 3:2)? No. The disobedience of the Jews puts the righteousness of God in stark contrast and therefore has made the righteousness of God abound all the more (Rom 3:5-7). With this thought in mind Paul asks if this implies (as some suggest) that we ought do evil that good may come? He asks does this mean that the Jews are better than the Gentiles? Of course now because BOTH the Jews and the Gentiles have sinned, both the Jews and the Gentiles are corrupt, BOTH the Jews and the Gentiles have become filthy, of BOTH the Jews and the Gentiles, of the children of men there is none righteous, no, not even one.
Yet people like you completely ignore that context and snip a few verses out of their context to prove that all people, everywhere are absolutely wicked all the time.
That is evil to do that. You'll never quote the whole passages in their context like I just did because it would illustrate the deceptiveness by which you wield the Bible.
Thus your statements like this...
So you're missing something. . .and that is
"righteous" in Ro 3:10 is not the same "righteous" as Abel, Job, et al.
The "righteous" in Ro 3:10 is justification; i.e., the righteousness of Abraham, to whom it was credited
because of faith, not because of anything he did.
The Bible is not referring to justification in the cases of Abel, Job, et al.
...are pure nonsense.
Abel was declared righteous because of his FAITH.
Heb 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Abel obtained witness that he was righteous by what he DID in faith. It is exactly the same with Abraham for...
Rom 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,
his faith is counted for righteousness.
Rom 4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Rom 4:10
How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Rom 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision,
a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
Rom 4:12 And the father of circumcision
to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
Abraham had the "righteousness of faith" and God reckoned Abraham righteous apart from whether he was circumcised or not and therefore his righteousness was reckoned apart from the law. That reckons us righteous too if we walk in those same steps of Abraham which are the steps of faith. Faith works by love and love fulfills the law because love works no ill, love is obedient to God.
Yet you will come against that, even though the Bible teaches it, because it contradicts your doctrine of the "imputed righteousness of Christ" which you believe is the "obedience of Jesus being credited to your account."
What people like you do not understand is God's mercy and grace. You cannot comprehend God's mercy and grace for the simple reason that you view everything through the lense of strict justice only. That is why you think that "God requires perfect righteousness and perfect holiness to pass through his perfect judgment." Due to human beings being unable to do the impossible due to lacking "perfect knowledge" whereby they need "correction to grow" you easily buy into the invented doctrine of substitition where Jesus makes up your shortcomings for you.
Yet the truth is that God does not require perfect righteousness and perfect holiness to pass through perfect judgement. God requires a PURE HEART operating through a FAITH THAT WORKS BY LOVE and God reckons that kind of faith as righteousness because it fulfills the righteous requirements of the law. The root of the children of God is clean because of this faith, a faith given us by God through His word which we mediate on through which we are given strength and resolve.
That is what you simply cannot comprehend and that is why you are forced to twist scripture in order to substantiate your false teachings.
Every single Bible verse and passage you quote to substantiate your saved in sins message you rip out of context and twist it. You leave little bits out and impose your theology into the verse in order to make it teach what it does not teach.
Satan manipulated scriptures when he tempted Jesus. Satan presented them to Jesus out of context. You present them out of context to the people on this forum. The principle is the same.
