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We did not write the scriptures, but we have to let them speak to us through the Holy Spirit to bring truth into our being so that we can have God's understanding and not our own to lean upon. So, when the scriptures tells us that 'there is none that doeth good, no not one', how are we to understand what that is telling us? Is there some that do good but not all or is there none that doeth good, NO NOT ONE!
Ps 53:2,3 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand , that did seek God. 3 Every one of them is gone back : they are altogether become filthy ; there is none that doeth good, no, not one..
Dear Red33: It is true there is no one righteous except God. St. Paul is not saying there is no one righteous. He is saying only God is righteous; he is saying there is no one who is righteous among all human beings. But God is not a man. God is righteous. I do not mean to criticize the Psalm or St. Paul who quoted this. I am not saying the Bible is wrong. I am merely saying if you take this literally, it could lead to a wrong doctrine. Yes, there is One Who is righteous: God. But no, there is no one who is righteous among men: all men women and children are in a state of corruption and sin. Original sin is not true, but the ancestral sin is true. All human beings have inherited the knowledge of good and evil, which is the ancestral sin; they have not inherited the guilt (sin) of Adam's sin. All people are guilty only of their own personal sins (Ezekiel 18). People are born mortal and corruptible. That is the ancestral sin, which led to mortality (a state in which death is inevitable) for all human beings. In Erie PA USA Scott R. Harrington
Rom 3:10-12 As it is written , There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth , there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way , they are together become unprofitable ; there is none that doeth good, no, not one .[
Ps 53:2,3 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand , that did seek God. 3 Every one of them is gone back : they are altogether become filthy ; there is none that doeth good, no, not one..
Dear Red33: It is true there is no one righteous except God. St. Paul is not saying there is no one righteous. He is saying only God is righteous; he is saying there is no one who is righteous among all human beings. But God is not a man. God is righteous. I do not mean to criticize the Psalm or St. Paul who quoted this. I am not saying the Bible is wrong. I am merely saying if you take this literally, it could lead to a wrong doctrine. Yes, there is One Who is righteous: God. But no, there is no one who is righteous among men: all men women and children are in a state of corruption and sin. Original sin is not true, but the ancestral sin is true. All human beings have inherited the knowledge of good and evil, which is the ancestral sin; they have not inherited the guilt (sin) of Adam's sin. All people are guilty only of their own personal sins (Ezekiel 18). People are born mortal and corruptible. That is the ancestral sin, which led to mortality (a state in which death is inevitable) for all human beings. In Erie PA USA Scott R. Harrington
Rom 3:10-12 As it is written , There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth , there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way , they are together become unprofitable ; there is none that doeth good, no, not one .[