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Jeffrey Overstreet<\/a> has seen Kingdom of Heaven<\/a><\/i>, and he doesn\u2019t like it \u2014 partly because he thinks the film says \u201crighteousness\u201d is all about \u201cgood deeds\u201d. While this would obviously be an incomplete understanding of righteousness, I wouldn\u2019t expect anything terribly deep from a film made by a self-professed agnostic, and in fact, I don\u2019t necessarily have that big a problem with this emphasis on \u201cgood deeds\u201d, based on my reading of Romans 2 in particular; so I have posted some comments<\/a> to this effect at Jeff\u2019s blog.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"