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You can project your belief on to me ("I do not believe you consider yourself condemned"), but that doesn't actually reveal what I believe.

I would have to disagree, since Matthew 18 says the servant had been forgiven all his debt, but, because of his behavior, afterward, his debt returned. Being that forgiveness is by the righteousness of faith (Ro 4:6-8), this would mean that he had already been a believer, yet, His having been a...

This touches upon another aspect I have already addressed, but which, I have to assume, you did not think was important to answer : God can forget not only sin but also righteousness (Ez 18:24), and, in the New Testament, "faith is counted as righteousness", so people can be "forgotten"...

I just hold to Scripture--the one who does not walk in faith is condemned. I can't change Scripture.

When we walk in faith/love, we are proclaiming "God", not ourselves. Remember Paul says man in his unrighteousness suppresses the truth about God... thus Paul rhetorically asks, "If by my lie God's truth abounds [aforementioned : "that You may be vindicated when You judge me"]) to His glory...

No, and when I don't, walk in faith, I am breaking the Law of Faith, and I must trust God is faithful and righteous to forgive me of my sins. I do not claim to be spiritually mature!

How is this a disagreement? LOL Yes, if you deny Him He will deny you. God not only forgets sin but also forgets righteousness--or else, the fact that the unforgiving servant had been forgiven all his sin (indicating he possessed the righteousness of faith, described as "blessed is the man whose...

I believe we are not under any part of the Law for the simple reason that there is nothing good in us--we are under Grace, as the goodness to fulfill the Law (what pleases God--"He works in us to will and to do for His pleasure") is in Him.

Yeah, or else what was the point of Jesus dying and resurrecting? "God's wrath is revealed from heaven upon all the unrighteousness of men whereby they suppress the truth about God" (Ro 1:18). If being "under Grace" just results in more unrighteousness, what has Christ accomplished? The men He...

And your "answer" was answered : "if we deny Him He will deny us" refers to peoples' righteousness being "forgotten" (in accordance with Ezekiel 18:24--eg, Matthew 18, parable of the unforgiving steward), and "if we are faithless He remains faithful" refers to the fact that if we sin...

@Johann "A righteousness of my own" points people to me, to trust in me, to praise me, but "God's righteousness" points people to God, to trust in God, to praise God's glorious grace.

By your own standard, have you been "confident" to answer the simple reality of how the person who does not walk in the Law of Faith, not merely hold faith, fully persuaded in his own mind, is sinning against God and is therefore condemned? We've been going on that question for many pages now.

What ever the Spirit instructs us to do, our walking in that automatically causes those commands to be fulfilled in us by God's righteousness.

It's true--and, as I see it, our "steps of faith" ought to be so as to proclaim God's kindness to us--know God, and make God known, as Paul says, "Though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant of all, that I might save some." So, our "walking in faith" has an end : "we rejoice in hope...

"Against [the fruit of the Spirit] there is no law" (Gal 5) : when we walk in the Spirit, walk in faith, we fulfill the righteous requirement of the Law, because we do no harm to our neighbor (eg, do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, etc).

The righteous requirement of the Law is fulfilled in those who walk by the Spirit/walk in faith (Ro 8:4)--eg, love God, do not covet, etc.

"Love is the fulfillment of the Law" (Ro 13:8-10), and we walk in love by walking in faith (Gal 5)/conviction authored by Christ (Ro 14:5).

I specifically answered.

God's Law is being written in our hearts, by the Spirit, in accordance with promises He made about the New Covenant--this is what it means to be "under Grace", and not "under Law"--faith without works doesn't justify, but condemns the man who only has faith but doesn't walk in faith!

It is what I have asked God for, so I don't have to be confused when I read. LOL