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I think not a few of them actually get something out of what they believe, but when they try to explain what they believe, to try to help others get what ever they got, it's completely incoherent indefensible nonsense. I know Dr. Wright loves God (I wouldn't compare him to a Pharisee), I just...

Idk how it is controversial. He's a professor lol

I emailed Dr. Wright about this. He answers anyone's emails. He seemed genuinely shocked when I reminded him that Jesus's Name is "God Is Our Righteousness" (Jer 23:6), and that that is what passages like Romans 3 are talking about. Like, "My whole career... ", since his whole career has been...

Unfortunately for you, I'm not Reformed, and, again, unfortunately for you, since you seem to parrot all of Wright, I am not seeing it as a "mysterious gas that can be transmitted across the court room"--if that's what you got from what I said, you missed what I said. What I am describing is...

Yeah, I know the typical N.T. Wright gobbledygook--the issue with Wright is he ignores the fact that "works of the Law" includes "do not covet" (Ro 7:7), it's not just "Jewish-people-specific-commands". He doesn't get to the heart of the issue. The heart of the issue is who is performing the...

What is the issue Paul has with Torah? It's that it is a form of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That was the first act of idolatry--and, lo and behold, what does the righteousness from the Law result in? Flesh boasting. Self-idolatry. Self-centeredness. That is why Paul has an issue...

Yeah, again, it boils down to whose righteousness--"a righteousness of my own from the Law" or "God's righteousness from faith to faith". Why "from faith to faith"? Because we both "begin" and "seek perfection" (Gal 3), and both are by faith.

Paul is not against righteousness, he is against being "under Law", or having "a righteousness of my own"--he insists believers must walk righteously, and says the Lord even strikes believers who do not do so with illness and death (1 Co 5, 11), but he also insists that believers walk...

Obeying unrighteousness, doing evil, is the opposite of obeying the truth, and that was already defined as persisting in doing good. My speculation is that it describes the eternal life "repaid' with the language "give", because we have the "gift" of righteousness, whereby the eternal life is...

1 John was written to counter Gnosticism, and Valentinus came later, so, no, he was not the origin of Gnosticism. Maybe it was Simon Magus, or Cerinthus, but, no, it wasn't Valentinus.

It is a concession that the OP is correct, but one distinction is it seems you want to say that the good things that lead to justification happen on their own, automatically, naturally, without a person making decisions, whereas others will want to argue that, no, we're accountable for our...

1. This is actually a concession that the OP is correct--that only doers of good will be saved/justified and raised to eternal life. 2. We do not see your purport in Scripture. What we see is the Corinthians living in sin, and then Paul warning them that the unrighteous will not inherit God's...

IF being "in Christ" were an unchanging static reality, THEN no one would need to be told "remain in Him" (Jn 15; 1 Jn 2:28)--thus clearly not all branches do remain--and anyway this objection does nothing to address the fact that only DOERS OF GOOD will be raised to life, not merely someone who...

The same Gospel of John says doers of good will be raised to eternal life, but doers of evil will be raised to condemnation (5:29), so Jesus affirms Ro 2 in the way the OP seems to have construed it, as well as Ro 8:12,13, 14:23; Gal 6:6-10: Ja 2, etc, in the way I construe them--ie, believing...

It's not that there's no validity to the idea that we're justified and have peace through faith in Christ dying to remove our sins, but that there is a conspicuous incuriosity on the part of such people as wish for the matter to begin and end there when it comes to these "inconvenient" verses...

Yup, this fact goes together with Galatians 6:6-10 (we'll reap eternal life as a harvest if we sow to the spirit/do good deeds), Ro 8:12,13 (if Christians live after the flesh, they'll die, but if by the Spirit they mortify the deeds of the flesh Christians will live), Ro 14:23 (if we walk in...

I've been convinced I should eat raw vegan, and have done it, but have struggled. It seems like it took my eyes off of Christ. Yes, it is good... if only there were a way to do it without taking my eyes off of Christ and ending up in misery bc of that.

@BarneyFife I have edited my comment, so please reread it if you are already in the middle of answering it.

Are you really sure it's good to say such high praises to sinful people? lol Well, there are many people who've maintained a raw vegan diet for decades and who have reaped the rewards--a dude in his 50s who looks like he's in his 20s for instance. Shane Sterling Yes, I'm acquainted (though I...

I'm not even saying I maintain a raw vegan diet. I'm still trying to understand the whole issue, so I can't commit to it (and can't commit with the correct reasoning and intention) yet.