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FAQ # 71
QUESTION 71 : You said God
came to the save sinners to repentance and not the righteous, taken from
Matt 9:13; pointing to the “righteous” not needing repentance. However,
righteousness here was talking about self-righteousness and not God’s
righteousness. Is your summation then wrong?
Not
necessarily, because Jesus said, “They that are whole have no need of
the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance” (Mr 2:17). By the full narration, we see that
the righteous here (“whole”) means completeness or true righteousness.
As such, why then is repentance needed? Or, as Christ puts it, why do
you need a doctor if you are not sick but whole? This cannot then point
to self-righteousness, whether sarcastically or indirectly, because self-righteousness
cannot make you whole. It is a bit hard to explain to Christians how persons
were whole or righteous before Jesus Christ salvation, that fulfilled
it, because they have been robbed of their Jewish Heritage and knowledge
of the Torah (Old Testament). The righteousness that comes by following
the Torah (law) in those days made one complete; Jesus Christ is no different
from the law and Prophets (Rom 3:21). His coming ushered in a more perfect
way to it, that even the wretched of sinners can be saved. See the version
of this book for “Jews.”
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