“Ethical behaviorism is a term psychologists use to describe a schema where a person’s righteousness is defined exclusively in terms of what they do or do not do. In this sense, a righteous person is one who does the right things and avoids the wrong things. (Sadly a definition many Christians and churches believe and promote). An unrighteous person is one who does the wrong things and avoids the right things. Defined this way, righteousness is a quality that can (solely) be judged by an observation of someone’s behavior. Virtue and uprightness is purely a matter of outer conduct without any hint of what goes on inside you... In Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount, he radically amplifies this definition of righteousness. He insists that righteousness is not simply a matter of what we do or don’t do but rather a question of why we do or don’t do it. His view of righteousness goes deeper than behavior and outward action. It always looks into a person, at the motivation of the act. Excerpt From: Tchividjian, Tullian. “One Way Love.”
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:04:21 +0000
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