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No salvation apart from repentance Luke 13:3; confession Matthew 10:32-33; baptism Mark 16:16

Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: .....blood gives life to flesh, take away the blood the flesh dies. Obedient works gives life to faith, take away those works and faith dies. For it takes both flesh and blood to have life as it takes both obedience with faith to...

This has been refuted ad nauseam number of time....Naamans' obedience in dipping did not earn the free gift of healing but was necessary to receive it, Noah's obedience in building he ark did not earn the free gfit of salvation from the flood but was necessary to receive it, the blind man's...

You refuse to acknowledge that 'not of works' refers to works of merit, not obedience to God's will. Grace alone does not save as Paul shows in Romans 6. Just because the Christian is saved by grace does not allow the Christian to continue in sin..a Christian is dead to sin. And the only...

Not works of merit. Obedience is not a work of merit.

Yes. If we substitute "obedience" with "legalism" then Hebrews 5:9 reads "Christ is the Author of salvation to all who are legalists". Christ Himself learned legalism, Hebrews 5:8. Defining "Legalism" Above is a link I refer to when people start throwing around the word "legalism". The link...

post #176 you posted "But if your doing works of obedience to try to be saved. Your trying to earn salvation. and you will not be saved either". Other posts or yours as this can be cited. So you most certainly have been referring to obedience to God as a work or merit, a work done to earn...

Yes. If obedience is a work of merit, then wherever in the Bible we see "obedience" and replace obedience with "works of merit" then verses as Hebrews 5:9 now reads "Christ is the Author of salvation unto all them that have works of merit". 2 Thessalonians 1:8 now reads "in flaming fire God...

The point in Rom 4 that Paul was making to the Jews was that Abraham was NOT justified by the work of perfect law keeping but instead he was justified by an obedient faith. Paul goes on to point out in Rom 4 that Abraham did not even live under the law of Moses for Abraham was justified in...

I do not agree with Luther's faith only, I do not agree that obedience to God is meriting salvation.

Your argument is dead in calling obedience to God a work of merit, but you cannot bring yourself to accept that obedience earns nothing but is necessary to receive grace not merit grace.

Obedience is not a work done to earn some thing. Naaman's dipping 7 times in the river did not merit his healing for that was of grace but it took obedience to receive God's grace. I have replied to Romans 11:6 MULTIPLE TIMES showing the "not of works" refers to works of merit and not...

I never said salvation is by the OT law. What I have shown, especially from Roman 4, is that Paul is teaching the Jews that the OT law could NOT justify for that law required the Jew to keep ALL THINGS of it perfectly (Galatians 3:10) which they could not do. Hence Abraham was one who "worketh...

These may not be the verses you are trying to remember, but Luke 17:7-10 comes to my mind... But who is there of you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say unto him, when he is come in from the field, Come straightway and sit down to meat; and will not rather say unto him...

There is not a single case of obedience to God being called a work of merit. Works of merit and obedience are two completely different things. Romans 10:3 easily, clearly demonstrates all works are not alike. Those Jews were lost for they were doing the WRONG TYPE of work, they were following...

No, your are avoiding the point. In each of these cases God required obedience to His will in order for one to receive His free gift, that is God made His free gift CONDITIONAL upon man's obedience to His will. And not in any case was the obedience said to have earned the free gift. Whether...

Again, all your arguments are invalid, dead for the Bible NEVER defines obedience to God's will as a work of merit. You can't define obedience in an incorrect way then turn around and attack that incorrect definition YOU gave it. If you were correct in that obeying God is a work of merit, then...

I cannot of my own self attain perfection, but what I cannot do myself I can do through Christ. The way the Christian can be without spot and blameless (2 Peter 3:14) is by obedience. As long as the Christian OBEYS by continuing to walk in the light (1 John 1:7) then the blood of Christ's...

If what you say were accurate, then Noah building the ark was a work of merit therefore God OWED him salvation from the flood, it was not of grace, Naaman dipping 7 times in the river was a work of merit, therefore God OWED him the cleansing of his disease, it was not of grace. 2 Thessalonians...

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