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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.

Why couldn't it be a grace to conform to the best choices in each of these cases? Why is the best choice automatically not grace? Is it a lighter burden to be cursed with diseases by choices made or to be blessed with health by choices made? The odd thing is it seems you can be right with God...

It's difficult to wrap my mind around it. Paul says, "receiving in themselves the penalty due their error" (one proof the gays are sinning, in case there's any doubt, is that they are being penalized, given STDs, for their error), and no one is getting away with eating foods that are unhealthy...

Can we all relax with all the needless drama? Christ says hate your parents and even your own life or you can't be His disciple. It's not controversial. Stop acting like it is just so you can "score a point". You're not scoring a point.

I know Jesus said if you don't hate your own parents (meaning you choose Christ over your parents) you can't be His disciples. This shouldn't be controversial. We may disagree with him on his OSAS (rightly so), but we don't need to use that as a basis for misconstruing any and every thing he...

Oh sorry. I misunderstood. No, an honest misunderstanding. You're saying you deny there is a need for a resolution. 1. Yes, I've made many threads where I've discussed the entirety of Scripture; this is the first and only where I've limited it to John's writings. 2. Every thread, to an extent...

When you are doing, you are thinking, and it is expected that the thinking you are doing while doing is a believing type of thinking, unbroken from believing in God's love (1 Jn 4:16), but this assumes you have believed in His love, which expresses itself as mercy for your sins, so that you do...

But you can't "resolve" something that needs no resolution. I thought you said there was a "tension" in John, so how is that not admitting there is a need for a resolution (ie, admitting there is an issue)? I'm not going to discuss other things than John's Gospel--there're other threads (even...