For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity. Now I just want know what your opinion on this sentence rom 24:16 of the bible. Tell me what you think it means

uhm I think it means in fantasy land the good succeed...

I think in reality, life doesnt work that way... plenty of wicked (whatever the hell that means) people are successful...

I think it means that when you fail you need to pick yourself up and try again... no matter how many times it takes. and if you don't than you are a failure

A righteous man has the strength within, is fortified by the Holy Spirit - the wicked are left to their own devices.

I think it means Good will ultimately triumph over evil, which take a look at the world today. That's not true. Most people have sex before marriage,lie,and disobey their parents. I wouldn't say most kill, but a lot of people do. Christianly has failed as a religion. ahaha It's funny. Everything they have tried to teach almost everyone is against.

---Everything they have tried to teach almost everyone is against.---

Really? Because the United States remains a predominately Christian nation. It's just most people don't vote. Mostly it's young people who don't like their parents, so they go to the extremes to be anything but like their parents. Which I understand from experience

I think what it means is that if you believe in something and have faith in its truth, you will continue to work towards it, even if you fail every time(in this verse's case, following the laws and suggestions given by Christ), while a wicked individual will often not bother with the attempt, and even go to the extent to antagonize that which is good.

For the most part, I see its truth. The problem is that we have a lot of Old Christians who cling to tradition and such that younger people don't often agree with or see wisdom in(if there is any). This is resulting in a lot of kids going Atheist, or in an almost equal number of cases, becoming New generation Christians(these are not commonly accepted terms, but it is makes things easier to divide Christians into these two simplified camps), who basically(or often, at least) say, I believe in Christ, but because he loves me, and God will forgive me for anything, I can go do whatever I want, even though they already know its wrong, at least according to the Bible. And of course, after that, they will try to come up with reasons to rationalize this, slowly corrupting and twisting the religion as I believe it is intended(though the older generations have done a fair enough job at that, as well.)

And the funny thing is that this is happening mostly with Judeo and Judeo-Christian religions. You don't see it so often with others, though you do in the Atheist case.

Well, what it means is that righteous men will overcome obstacles and wicked men will not.

It isn't true of course, but that's what it means.

Well, we can think in eternal or mortal perspective. Of course, Atheists don't believe in the prior, so it's a mute point.

Yahh... it means something for men... but not for women... women are not men...

agreed with toadally

lol annv, come now, you cant blame the bible writers for using exclusionary terms... everyone was sexist back them...

Not the Egyptians.