noah

Nice try. Blameless means they did not violate God's laws. Remember the context. You get points for obeying your God's Laws. You lose them for violating your God's Laws. Blame is assigned for every violation of God's Laws Maybe. But we do know that the word righteous is applied to those who follow your God's commands:

Deuteronomy 6:25

Job could have lived at anytime. Therefore it is reasonable to assume that Job followed Yahweh's laws. One set of laws he was sure to have followed were the Noachian laws.
So either way you slice it Job was righteous in the sense that he followed God's laws.

You're also forgetting Asa whose heart was perfect with the LORD all his days (1 Kings 15:14)




You have yet to prove this assertion


You've got to be joking. Read the text. The two of them are described as righteous in the first phrase of the verse and then described as righteous in the next. It's basic grammar my friend. The two phrases are apposite. It's like saying I met the new teacher, the one from New Jersey. The two verses are directly related to each other and join together to describe the teacher. The two phrases are not put in the same sentence only to bear no relation to each other.
This Jesuitical parsing and massaging of texts on your part is shameful way to defend your beliefs.

Sorry. That's what the text says. Book/Chapter/Verse?

Please point to the verse where I can see this for myself

Abraham's faith is in no way similar to the Paulinian doctrine of faith in JC as a human blood sacrifice. Jews are commanded to have faith in their god in the sense of trusting him to do what's best for them but they do not share your tattered and strained belief in JC as a human blood sacrifice. It would be a violation of your God's laws to do so.

noah

Wrong. Righteousness is synonymous with obeying your God's Laws.
Deuteronomy 6:25:

Abraham had faith in God but not in Jesus as a human blood sacrifice.
Quit trying to conflate the normal definition of faith with the Paulinian doctrine of faith in JC as a human blood sacrifice.

And, in case you forgot, there is no mention of faith in Jesus or anybody else as a human blood sacrifice anywhere in the OT.

You have yet to provide proof of any assertion of yours

Only problem is the NT makes clear time and again that righteousness comes through obeying the commandments:

Luke 1:5-6
Mathew 5:17-20
OOOPS! There's more proof of people being righteous and being righteous through obeying your God's commandments. The Pharisees were devout followers of the Law.

Rev. 22:14

What was that about the NT not saying that righteousness comes through works?

noah

You see that's your problem. Your use of language betrays not only your contempt for your God's Laws but your misunderstanding of them. Are the Laws of the U.S. in effect against you? No. The laws are there to protect you against evil-doers. The laws are there to make society run justly and logically.

You have no scriptural justification for your use of "against" here.
There is no mention of faith in Jesus as a human blood sacrifice anywhere in your God's Laws or anywhere else in the OT.

You're fooling no one by saying the Laws of your God were not repealed. Paul gave you licence to ignore your God's laws. When no one obeys laws under the order of a third party those laws are in effect repealed. Word games don't change that.

You still have a number of problems to deal with here:

1) Perfect Laws don't get replaced, erased or supplanted by any other law or notion or doctrine. That's why they're perfect: because they are all you require for salvation. God did not make a mistake when he issued his laws. Or did he? Choice is yours.

2) Eternal Laws never go out of date. They always apply. Your god created his laws as an everlasting bond between you and him.

3) There is no mention of faith in a human blood sacrifice.
anywhere in God's perfect and eternal Laws

4) The Paulinian concept/doctrine of faith in Jesus as a human blood sacrifice is unknown, it is foreign to the Old Testament.

5) Your god calls his laws perfect. That means he knows something about his laws that you don't. So your calling his laws brutal and imperfect and outdated is arrogance on your part. It's prideful. You do not know more than your god. He is omnipotent and you are not. That means anything you dislike about your God's laws has its perfect place in your God's perfect laws and plan.
If you want to talk about faith, now is the time.

6) You have no refuge in JC. Not only does JC himself say you have to obey his commandments but if JC is as the expected Messiah as you xians claim he is then you better head for your nearest Rabbi now because the expected messiah will not only be righteous (Ezek 36:27) but he will also usher in an era of full Torah observance (Ezek 37:24) (Jeremiah 33:15).

7) Your God expressly forbid altering or diminishing His laws:

Deut. 4:2
8) JC himself says you have to obey his and his father's eternal and perfect laws if you want salvation:

Mathew 5:17-20 It's interesting to note here that JC does sound like the expected messiah here in Mathew 5:17-20


To make matters worse for you Paulinians, JC says his words last forever (Matt. 24:35). That means his laws, his father's perfect and eternal laws apply to you forever.