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These people are likely thinking of verses like these: John 15:18-20 (NIV)     18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember ...

I've heard a variety of theories on this topic: He "knew" (or hoped) the crowd wouldn't accept them (they were asking for men, after all) Females were considered a sub-class of society, and therefore were his "possession" wherewith to do as he pleased It was the offer of a desperate man trying to save the guests whom he suspected of being more than just ...

Building on @warren's response: Yes, righteousness does not indicate that he was perfect. Additionally, crimes against humans by humans are particularly abhorrent to both humans and God. So why, then, would Lot be considered righteous? There are also a couple of other factors that may influence our understanding of this: Context. Peter is addressing a ...

I do not believe that the verses cited mean that it is easy to live a Godly life, and to abstain from sin simply because we're saved. No less than Paul himself, who wrote a good portion of the New Testament struggled against his sin nature. He wrote about it often, but I think that the most raw and honest writing, which dealt directly with his struggle is ...

You say "a person would be considered righteous by their deeds and not just their faith". I'm not sure this is a necessary reading of the Biblical passage. You quote 2.24: I think verse 18 is more useful for interpreting James' account of the relationship between faith and works: But someone will say, ‘You have faith and I have works.’ Show me your ...

Outside of being offered by their father in this incident, there are really only two things we know about Lot's daughters: they were betrothed or in some translations actually married to men of Sodom (Gen. 19:14 - the latter option making Lot's claims to their virginity suspect), and after the destruction of Sodom, they get their father drunk and seduce ...

The answer is NO. The reason we need salvation in the first place is because we can't be righteous; by nature we are law-breakers (Romans 3:10f). The only God way we can be righteous is if God gives it to us. Salvation involves us being 'justified' (i.e. we are declared to be "not guilty") before God thus making us righteous (Romans 1:16, 3:20-26). We ...

Yes. Righteousness is absolutely a prerequisite for salvation. However, no one is righteous (Romans 3:10). No one, that is, except Jesus. And He offers to give us His righteousness in exchange for our sins: 2 Corinthians 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Click here for more ...

Theologically speaking, the first two verses of this Psalm give away the whole point: 1 Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; 2 for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away. It is so tempting to see "the wicked prosper," and forget that even Jesus said that ...

Quite the opposite. It is unrighteousness is the only prerequisite for salvation. Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." (Luke 5:31-32) The point that James makes is that "faith without works is dead." A faith that prompts no actions is not ...

No, it is not easy; it is completely impossible: Matthew 5:48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. That's the Gospel's standard, according to Jesus. So, what should we do? As David Stratton's answer states, even Paul had this problem. However (following on from the verses David quotes) Romans 8 answers this. First, we're ...

A natural harmony between Genesis and Peter is found in the harmony between Peter and Paul. Someone who reads the Bible as a disaparate collection of different people's opinions might object that to import Paul is the wrong way to answer the question. But such an approach does not even require a reconciliation between Peter and Genesis. Copies of the ...