What is Righteousness in Christainity
Righteousness is the state of moral perfection required by God to enter heaven.
However, the Bible clearly states that human beings cannot achieve righteousness through their own efforts: "Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God's sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin." (Romans 3:20, NIV).
The law, or the Ten Commandments, shows us how far we fall short of God's standards.
Righteousness
We know that God is righteous but what does this word mean? It certainly means that there is a right-ness in God. All that He is and all that he does is right and unlike humans, He is righteous in all He says as that is one of His attributes. The Old Testament says that God is righteous. In Psalm 7:11a we read “God is a righteous judge.” The word righteous in the Hebrew is “tsaddiy” which means just, lawful, and correct.
The word righteous in the New Testament comes from the Greek word “dikaios” which means observing divine laws or upright, faultless, innocent, and guiltless. These are all descriptive of God Himself and no human has any of these attributes inherent in themselves even though we can do things that are upright and observe the divine laws like the Ten Commandments while not being able to obey them all, but how can fallen creatures like us be righteous?
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I'd recommend reading some Neville Goddard when you get a chance, he was a true believer that imagination was God's creative faculty. He puts Righteousness as "right consciousness"
I don't follow Christianity to a T, but I do have some background in it, and Goddard is the closest I've seen to merging many other spiritual traditions, such as Buddhism, with Christian terms
His basic teaching was that through imagination we could change the external world and discover our righteousness and divinity. See my recent post for more details and also check this one out for additional material if interested.
Great topic, I've found that many of these words like righteousness, divinity, faith, are in my experience preprogrammed ideas of what they are rather than the truth of what they are which must be discovered in our own lives