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so allow me to rephrase the OP in an equivalent way by its negation: why do you find it so easy to consider yourself equal with God?

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because i apparently have a much higher standard of goodness than you do; the same one our blessed God & Saviour Jesus of Nazareth has: no one is good, but God alone

it seems to me that the reality is people are afraid grace will be stolen if it's free, so they preach buying & selling instead. @Addy wouldn't you agree?

As I said, these things are expressed in words and deeds, but they are not physical things. They are spiritual things. You can't point at your works and say 'this is love' when someone else can do the same things without love. What your actions do is justify you before men. But the LORD...

Then why did you say it? Why is Mssr. Grailhunter saying such things about me? Accusers and scoffers will always appear, and the cares and troubles of the world, and persecutions and turmoil will all rise. False teachers and false prophets and mean men. If we practice and exercise the...

virtue is not a physical property knowledge is not a physical property self-control is not a physical property perseverance is not a physical property godliness is not a physical property brotherly kindness is not a physical property love is not a physical property these things are expressed in...

If you read vv. 5-9 you'll see that he isn't talking about performing physical actions but possessing non-physical characteristics. We are dualistic in substance. The spiritual informs the physical. Salvation is spiritual, and Peter is encouraging us to build up the spiritual man. As a matter...

Yes With you on the other hand, when I quote scripture, you scoff at it. So. What has been established, may it be established.

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um... is eternal life a place or is it a person? see John 17:3 search your Bible like a good Berean OK the Jews didn't understand their prophets and their law -- or they would have expected exactly the Messiah that they received. see Luke 24:27, consider why the Magi showed up but the scribes...

Romans 7:22 in my inner being I delight in God's law

clearly, no, you do not presently care. but you should. our conversation will be more worthwhile when you begin to know something about scripture. For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall...

in fact, sin is lawlessness (1 John 3:4)

What did the Berean search?

My apologies; I took you at first for someone familiar with scripture. Romans 5:13 sin indeed was in the world before the law was given

not being under law doesn't make us "good" -- of a certainty, there was sin before the law

Aye, there is faith and hope in addition to love, which is the greatest of these

Falling short of His glory, for example ((Romans 3:23)) Not all sin is transgression of the law, as surely you know, from Romans 5:13, and goodness is far more than withholding ones self from committing transgression.

He is my standard - unless my righteousness in thought and deed is equal to His, i am not good.