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I understood you to be saying that Christ fulfilled the law for us by living a perfect life and therefore we don't have to live that perfect life before God because Christ's perfect righteousness is applied to our account. Which is true....but there is more to it than that. Christ's perfect...

It should be clear that Romans 5:20 was never intended to teach grace as a license for immorality.

not NO law...for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2)....even the law of faith (Romans 3:27) The righteousness of the law is fulfilled in those who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit (Romans 8:4).

Why? is it your prayer that I will never "get it"? Jhn 15:17, These things I command you, that ye love one another. Jhn 15:18, If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. Jhn 15:19, If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the...

Practically everyone in the world; as well as many Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, cults... There is a plethora of teachings out there that amount to legalism.

You should believe in what I said to you; because it is biblical. But if you are saying that no one believes that they are saved by their not sinning....I think that this is a common misconception that the world has about religion...so yes, there are many who believe in that. Is there a...

The reality is that if we walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit, the righteousness of the law will be fulfilled in us (Romans 8:4); and it is very true that this does not mean that we lose our salvation the moment we begin to walk according to the Spirit; as you seem to think. I do not...

No, it is not that we are any more required to fulfill the law, if we are forgiven through the blood of Christ. If we are forgiven, the law does not condemn us any more if we fail to keep it. As a matter of fact, God desires for us to keep the law rather than requiring us to keep it. And the...

Legalism is a problem...but I think that liberalism is a worse problem.

For those who base their salvation on their ability to keep from sinning (i.e. their works or law-keeping), they are required to keep the whole law (Galatians 3:10, James 2:10, Matthew 5:48)...every letter in the Old testament and in the New. However, for those who know that their salvation is...

Basically, what I said. Except, that works do not save a man but are the sure result of a genuine faith.

Have you considered what Jesus said about the law? Mat 5:17, Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Mat 5:18, For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all...

Works don't save a man. However, if a man is truly saved / born again, he will have a heart of compassion towards those who are hurting; whom Jesus calls the least of these my brethren; and says that inasmuch as you do something to one of them, you do it unto Him. The works testify to the...

Sin is the transgression of the law (1 John 3:4). Do you wear tzitzit and tallit and tefilin? Do you blow the trumpet every new moon? If you don't, then you have violated the standard of God's righteousness in the law and therefore, you have sinned; and you sin every moment that you are not...

I realize that she was not portraying your understanding of those beliefs accurately. It remains that there are those who hold such beliefs who hold them in the manner that she has described. So, in debating, she is not only debating with you; but with every spectrum of the beliefs that you...

yes to both questions (otherwise I would be in violation of 1 John 4:1-3, 2 John 1:7). Jesus, by His Holy Spirit, tabernacles in our flesh today as believers (Ephesians 5:30-32).

See this post: Commentary on Romans.

It should be clear that while judgment is according to works, salvation is by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9). A man is regenerated and renewed on the inside and made born again through faith in Jesus Christ and what He did for him on the Cross. If I give $5 to the poor, or even...

However, this is a public forum; and when we consider doctrine we need to consider every impact that a doctrine might have on people who believe in it. So, even though the particular bent on your doctrine may not apply to you because you don't believe in it that way, that bent needs to be dealt...