Recently, I watched Piers Morgan interview Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, the author of the book, The Return of the God Hypothesis.
Interestingly, Dr. Meyer is an astrophysicist with a PhD, and his hypothesis that he presents to his scientific peers is: that God, the creator, is responsible for the origin of life.
This is great news for Christians who have many times viewed scientists through a dark lens as evil villains who are trying to destroy their faith.
That is what I was taught when I was part of the Christian Church, scientists are mostly diabolical.
At the end of the day, scientists are just humans seeking for truth.
Isn’t that what all of us should be doing?
Asking, what is the truth? What is correct? What is truly the right way?
If we honestly believe that God is the greatest entity in the universe, and that we are on His righteous path, isn’t it silly to think a mere human scientist would pose a threat to our solid foundation of which the intelligent designer has constructed?
The Bible makes it very clear that there are only two paths, righteous or unrighteous, good or evil, light or dark, love or hatred.
We know that God has been associated with the terms righteous, good, light, and love.
So, let’s examine God as a righteous entity.
The creator that Dr. Meyer hypothesizes is thought to be intelligent beyond description. He believes this because of what he knows about cellular physiology.
Dr. Meyer says that a single cell is so intricate in its design and that it is programed to function beyond what our human intelligence can even comprehend. A cell is far more superior than the most sophisticated computer that has ever been designed by man.
He hypothesizes that it could not have happened by chance because there are far too many variables that have to be perfectly in place for this cell genesis to occur, let alone all the different types of cells that are necessary to make a human.
So, if God is far more intelligent than man, then it would stand to reason that God knows more about what is right than we do.
This is not a new concept as it is consistent with the words that were written thousands of years ago by David and several of the prophets when they wrote, God is righteous.
As often as it is mentioned in the Bible, it is no wonder that the term righteousness would be associated with religion.
It is religion that generally defines what righteousness means to humans, and it involves a list of things to do and not to do in order to achieve that condition.
Christ said to his disciples, unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of God, and this was incomprehensible.
The scribes and Pharisees were viewed by the Jewish citizens as the most righteous individuals on earth. They perfectly observed every Law of Moses, and here, Christ is telling his disciples that they must be more righteous than the Pharisees.
This seems humanly impossible, and it is, unless you understand what Christ was talking about.
He was not talking about religious, but rather, spiritual righteousness.
Why do humans not know what this means?
Because, for the past four and a half thousand years our world has been saturated with religion, which defines righteousness as the act of following the “rules.”
It is this very concept that contributed to the murder of Christ. He did not follow the rules, but rather, he followed the instructions of God.
He heard from God to heal on the Sabbath day, so he did it, even though it was strictly forbidden for anyone to “work” on the Sabbath.
It was their strong entrenchment in “rules” that blinded the religious leaders from seeing that Yeshua was the Messiah.
They argued that if Yeshua was from God, then he would NOT be working on the Sabbath—end of subject.
They were wrong. The religious leaders had it all backward. They called righteousness, unrighteousness. They called good, evil. They called light, darkness.
Christ addressed this when he was talking to Nicodemus, the Pharisee.
Christ said, “and this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”
Yeshua was talking about them, not the people of the world. He was talking about the religious world.
They loved their religion more than God, of whom Christ represented. And even worse, they called him Beelzebub, the prince of Devils. They called Christ evil.
So, what makes a human righteous?
It is simple and Christ is our example, hearing from God and doing what God asks you to do.
And, I’m here to tell you as one who was heavily influenced by the Christian religion; when my spiritual eyes and ears were opened, it was profound.
I knew something had happened to me. It was very apparent that something more intelligent than myself was infusing information into my being.
I received words that I did not know. Of which, I had to look up in a dictionary. I was shown things that I was completely unaware of, and they made perfect sense when reading the words of the prophets.
Those prophets heard from the same source that I was hearing from and suddenly, I understood what they were talking about.
But mostly, I began to see Christ in a whole different light. He was not a figure to be worshipped, but rather, one to whom we should give our undivided attention.
Christ represented the righteousness of God. He heard directly from the righteous source.
He is the one person in history that not only heard from God, but obeyed God to do many great works in order to bless humanity and demonstrate God’s mercy toward humans.
And, his intent was to pass on his spiritual knowledge of true righteousness to his disciples.
Sadly, his mission was interrupted, because as Isaiah writes in chapter 53 (JPS version, Hebrew Bible),
Who could describe his abode? For he was cut off from the land of the living through the sin of my people, who deserved the punishment.
It was the sin of God’s people, the religious leaders, that led to the murder of Christ. It was the religious leaders who deserved the punishment, not Christ.
And because his life was cut short, he never got the opportunity to truly pass on his spiritual knowledge of how humans can clearly hear from God and can righteously connect with the Father.
Not one of his disciples knew him well enough behind closed doors to describe his abode as Isaiah put it, and to carry on his mission.
After his death, people soon forgot about his teachings and reverted back to a familiar place—religion.
Instead of following Christ’s teachings on how to truly know God, to do God’s will, and to, eventually, become just like the master himself, they came up with the free gift doctrine.
It is the free gift doctrine of Paul that has led an innumerable number of souls down the wrong path, thinking that they are the righteousness of God when they are not.
Paul’s doctrine has created an army that calls unrighteousness, righteous, who calls darkness, light, and who calls evil, good.
Unlike Paul, who writes follow me as I follow Jesus, I’m not asking anyone to follow me. My only mission is to do the will of my Father and deliver to you the words that he gives me to write.
My hope is that others will truly connect to God and experience the joy of His righteousness.