When looking at their theology concerning grace and Christ's sacrifice, it becomes obvious that Romanists don't actually understand what grace is or even why Christ came to die as a human being. Like most Romanists, your tremendously flawed understanding of grace comes from not realizing Paul was mostly addressing the Pharisees' traditions in Galatians, not the Law:
First of all, I have no connection to any Catholic Church, so you can drop your Romanist assumption.
You showed immediately in your reply by using the term ROMANIST as pertains to me, that you are in error, exacerbated by your erroneous claim thar Paul never addresses that Christians are not under the law of Moses in his writing.
Secondly, that Paul emphasizes in all his epistles, the fact that Christians are not in any way under the law of Moses, is unequivocally evident in his writings.
There was a serious controversy in Paul’s day, because there many of the Jewish Christians claimed that gentile believers were still required to be circumcised and keep the law of Moses.
It got bad enough that all the apostles and church leaders met in Acts 15 to decide what should be done about the problem.
Act 15:5 But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and
said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.”
Act 15:6 The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter.
They decided gentile believers were not under the law of Moses, and Peter called the law of Moses
a yoke of burden:
Act 15:7 And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
Act 15:8 And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
Act 15:9 and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
Act 15:10 Now, therefore,
why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
Therefore Paul’s writings - since he is the apostle TO the gentiles (Galatians 5:8)- he emphasizes
continually that gentile believers are saved apart from works of the law of Moses.
Every time Paul mentions
law, the law, works of the law, works, or works of righteousness*, he is always referring to the works of the law of Moses.
( * Deuteronomy 6:25 keeping the works of the law of Moses was their righteousness)
To claim Paul was only talking about the Pharisees is preposterous. You can’t actually read all of Paul’s epistles and come to that conclusion:
Paul states things like Christians are dead to the law, and now are married to Jesus instead of the law, and have been DELIVERED FROM the law, that the law was temporary until faith and Jesus came:
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren,
ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Rom 7:6
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not inthe oldness of the letter.
Or that the law doesn’t apply to Christians, just to the unconverted, because the law is NOT MEANT for a RIGHTEOUS MAN, but for the UNGODLY and for MURDERERS:
1Ti 1:9 Knowing this, that
the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderersof fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1Ti 1:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
Christians are the righteousness of God in Christ, thus the law is null and void for us.
Php 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness,
which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Rom 3:21
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed bythe law and the prophets;
Thus the law of Moses hasn’t passed away,
it just doesn’t apply to those born again, since it’s only meant for the ungodly and murderers, etc. 1 Tim 1:9 above.
And Paul says that BEFORE faith came,
we were imprisoned by the law, locked up by it until the coming of Christ, and now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian:
Gal 3:23
Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed.
Gal 3:24
So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
Gal 3:25
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,
In the epistle to the Galatians, Paul writes extensively against their error, which was addressed above in Acts 15, of wanting to still be under the law of Moses:
Gal 2:15 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;
Gal 2:16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 2:21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose. C
As always, the context of Ephesians chapter 2 is works of the law of Moses.
And in Galatians 4:21-31 Paul states the shocking fact that the covenant given on Mount Sinai is slavery and bondage!
In 2 Corinthians 3, Paul states that the ten commands given to Moses on the mountain, is the letter that kills, the ministry of DEATH which he contrasts with the ministry of the Spirit in the new covenant, which gives LIFE instead of death, and says the apostles are the ministers of the new covenant, not of the old, which passed away.
Ergo, your astonishing claim about Paul and his contending against Christians keeping the law of Moses, has been shown to be highly erroneous.