Romans 6:14, Romans 7:4, Romans 7:6, Galatians 2:19, Galatians 5:18, Ephesians 2:15-16, Colossians 2:14, and Hebrews 7:18 all show that we are no longer subject to the law as a requirement.
My dear man,
I asked you for scriptural support for your statement that
IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO OBEY GOD.
What you're posting above are verses about THE LAW.
I've been thru these verses with you several times and will make no further comment on them except to say that you have NO UNDERSTANDING
between THE LAW of Moses
AND THE LAW OF JESUS
AND OBEDIENCE OF FAITH.
I'm not posting any verses.
I do believe you should start from the beginnin with Mathew and quietly read the N.T. on your own and then come back to report.
However, because the love of the Lord is shed abroad in our hearts, the righteousness of the law is fulfilled within us (Romans 13:8-10, Galatians 5:14, Romans 8:4,1 John 5:3, 2 John 1:6); not because we are looking to a requirement, but because we have received the righteousness which is by faith.
It doesn't matter WHY you obey God...
what matters is that you OBEY HIM.
Do you think you're doing any new Christians reading along a favor by teaching that it is NOT NECESSARY TO OBEY GOD?
James 3:1
You have much responsibility in your hands.
Your words are important to the Kingdom of God.
You should be teaching what God wants you to teach...
Not what you THINK you know or what you THINK God wants.
From the time God placed Adam in the garden,He's wanted obedience.
WHEN did He stop wanting this?
Could you post that scripture too please?
And could you not post the same ole' verses about WORKS.
Very simply, Genesis 15:6.
Genesis 15:6 WHAT???
How about using some syntax?
Are you speaking about Abraham?
You said he didn't have to do works to be righteous.
Please explain
Genesis 12:1 which came WAY BEFORE Genesis 15:6
Whoah! This is where your theology is way off. Giving money to the poor is the result of having been sanctified by the Spirit (see 2 Thessalonians 2:13); we do not sanctify ourselves by what we do. God sanctifies us; and what we do shows forth the sanctification that has been wrought in us by the power of the Holy Ghost.
Again, I don't make theology. Theologians make theology.
I just learn and read and UNDERSTAND the N.T. and what GOD REQUIRES FROM US.
Apparently you have some difficulty with God.
You think He's your buddy down the Street and not God Almighty.
You are deflecting the issue. Don't worry; it is a common thing for people, when they do not like what a scripture says, to think that something in the context will nullify what the verse is saying to them. Often they can find verses in the context that seem to do so. But when it comes down to the nitty-gritty, context never nullifies the meaning of any singular scripture. The scripture that they are trying to get away from remains; and the Holy Spirit will deal with them concerning it in His time; otherwise they may very well perish.
Fact is, before we were Christians, we were under the law; which was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Now that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. So, you need to think about what this means.
I don't DEFLECT.
I exegete every verse that's given to me.
Did you just say above that when we were not Christians, we were under the Law?
That's interesting. So you DO believe good works save us?
And NOW that we are Christian the law is no longer for us.
Well, if that's not the most backwards thing I've heard so far today.
YOU are the one that needs to reflect on what you write.
Now that we are born again, we love Jesus; and will obey the Lord because of that love. But not because we are required to do so. We are no longer under the law (Romans 6:14). This means that the law can no longer condemn us from the outside; it only governs us from the inside. In other words, it is not a requirement any longer; now it is a privilege. God says, "I desire that you obey me in this..." and we do so because we love Him. If this is not our relationship with Him, then we should question whether or not we are still under the law (the schoolmaster) and therefore not yet recipients of the faith that God speaks of in Galatians 3:24-25.
You didn't answer the question. And I wouldn't call the natural conclusion to the question, "good news".
The following post may help:
Commentary on Romans.
You have three fingers pointing back at you, Matthew 7:1-6.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Again I refer you to James 3:1
Stop reading COMMENTARIES and START READING THE BIBLE.
I don't read commentaries, thanks for the suggestion.
I like to read what Paul wrote...not what some commentator thinks about it.