Everything should ordinarily end here, because no matter the brilliance of pro-igbo advocates, anything that would worsen the drug epidemic around us and further push the boundary of
unrighteousness, should be a non-starter, regardless of the billions of dollar gain.
It's stupid to ask, 'Why have a close relationship with Taiwan?' It's wiser to ask, 'How can we make the world closer to Taiwan?' 'Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with
unrighteousness?' (2 Corinthians 6:14) To ensure creativity, the key is to guarantee freedom.
"Let us be comforted by the exhortation John, 'If we confess our sins, God who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all
unrighteousness'" (I John 1: 10).
God is good in Himself, but, Clement of Alexandria asserts that "God is righteous because of our
unrighteousness and this is because He is righteous." (Clement of Alexandria 1982a: 217) The same author, through witty words, highlights that God's righteousness is good and His goodness is righteous (Clement of Alexandria 1982b: 446).
In today's gospel reading, John the Baptist looks around him and sees injustice, sin, corruption, and
unrighteousness. But rather than be dismayed by what his eyes see, he insteasd reminds us of the basic truth about who we are: We are not crooked people with crooked hearts, and we don't need to sin or sacrifice our moral principles in the name of expediency.
Nearly all seem to have believed that, in the words of a seventeenth-century Puritan leader, "in all Ages since their [the Jews'] national Rejection, God has had, in some Country or other, a peculiar people owning his revelation and their Covenant Engagement to him." Since New England was the latest peculiar people, its calamities were "Signs of his Displeasure." Evangelicals and liberals alike preached that God will "favor a righteous nation" and punish nations "for every act of
unrighteousness." (4) The eighteenth century brought little abatement of covenantal rhetoric.
Holding aloft the standard of righteousness naturally defines
unrighteousness and draws the slings and arrows of those who choose sin over godliness.
Bishop Joshua Banda writes, "the mandate of the Lord Jesus Christ was for the church to be 'salt' and 'light' (Matthew 5:10-13) in a world that was faced with various forms of decay and darkness." (37) He and others are calling for the church to "proclaim the truth, promote integrity, and expose corruption and
unrighteousness." (38) The Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia (EFZ), which adopted Pentecostal characteristics, affirms,
As human beings spread, deceit and
unrighteousness followed.
The present era is an era of
unrighteousness and disintegration.
He condemned 'the rant and cant delivered in the NSW Parliament by a few members in regard to the
unrighteousness of the war', which showed they knew little about the situation.