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Also. there's Ro 8:1 "no condemnation for those in Christ", yet Ro 14:23 says the believer who sins by doing what he is not fully convinced is correct "is condemned": not all remain "in Christ" (1 Jn 2:28), where there is no condemnation, because remaining in Him is by obeying God's commands (1...

I never meant that there are ACTUALLY irreconcilable problems in the Scripture, I'm saying that it makes sense with God's help, but that the code that makes the Bible unintelligible is not breakable by a human--and, yes, there are many others.

Because we were all made to reveal God, the problem with the world is that we are giving false testimony about God. Satan, first and foremost, was the father of false testimony about God--murder, not the Word of Life. When we believe Jesus, we are, thereafter, committing to reveal the truth...

I already answered the conundrum. "Works" corresponds to "a righteousness of my own", but when we walk in faith, that is a revelation of God's righteousness (Ro 1:17), thus it is, categorically, not "works"--when a believer walks in grace and faith, he fulfills the Law, but it is God's...

That's why faith is counted as righteousness--it is a testimony that "God is true" (Jn 3:33), thus it is a revelation of God, unto the glory of God, thus it is righteousness, not an instance of suppressing the truth about God (Ro 1:18). Faith being counted as "righteousness" is not just an...

This very thread touches on one of the most enigmatic problems in the Bible: how can Ro 3 definitively say that by the works of the Law no flesh can be justified, and, yet, Ro 2 (and really the entire New Testament) say only doers of the Law will be justified? You, even, were grateful for the...

In truth, "righteousness" is one and the same as the revelation of God. 1 John 1 1That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life. 2And this is the life that was...

Reading the Bible. No human being can understand the Bible, it takes God's intervention. The things the Bible says are irreconcilable. Without prayer it won't make sense.

The Scriptures are NOT clear, though. The Scriptures are impossible to reconcile with one another. The problem comes when people try to make sense of them without prayer and they make a mess. When you pray God may decide to help you understand.

Hopefully, God will bring clarity to some through God clarifying His truth for edification of the hearers.

The crazy thing is that people who know God will reject, outright, obvious truth--truth has many surfaces, contours, so they go with certain contours that are useful, and dismiss anything that threatens to take that provision they obtain, through confessing those particular truth contours, away...

Yeah, I studied and begged God for clarity on the issue for years. It only took so long because I wouldn't stop boasting, which leads to God hiding truth. I think Scripture says women can teach other women how to submit to their husbands, but that's different than teaching Scripture, of course...

@Wynona One "righteousness" comes from knowing God, and reveals God, the other comes from someone disconnected from God, and reveals their own self, leading to boasting.

I had to understand why Scripture said we couldn't be justified by works of Law (Ro 3) yet only doers of the Law would be justified (Ro 2)--the issue is WHOSE RIGHTEOUSNESS, NOT whether there must be righteousness for justification on the Day of judgment. Walking by faith is God's righteousness...

Ro 7 was Paul prior to Christ. "You will not be mastered by Sin because you are not under Law but under Grace"--Ro 7 shows sin mastering the Jew under Law prior to faith in Christ, bc "the Law is the strength of sin" (1 Co 15).

You didn't read before responding (Proverbs 18:13) : I merely defined being under Grace as walking in faith, by which the Law is fulfilled (Ro 3:31, 8:4), and nowhere told anyone they are to serve by Law, or be "under Law" (actually, I reject that idea). For you, EITHER Romans 4 ("God justifies...

For those who interpret Romans 7 as an accurate depiction of a Christian's life, do you also interpret 1 John 3:9 as teaching "Christian's cannot sin"?

Lol "Symbolic": "Jesus, we know you're lying. We shouldn't take you at your word. You're saying symbolic stuff. Just stop talking. We know you're not being serious, you're just playing. Sure, the Church believed you were serious until a few hundred years ago, but that was a cult, and the new...

People who deny sins can be unforgiven are the liars.

If God saves us by Jesus making payment for our sins so that God can forgive us... Leviticus 4 20So the priest shall make atonement for them, and [only then] they will be forgiven. ...then God rescinding His forgiveness means the loss of salvation, because it means we would have to pay for our...