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Your attempts to play down what Jesus said was absolutely essential for one to understand and enter into the kingdom of God is because you don't have the faith that God could do that for you if you asked, yet He promised the holy Spirit to all who would ask. Does a father refuse good gifts to...

In the sense that we cannot gain righteousness through obedience to the law, then yes, I agree. Righteousness comes by faith. But what does righteousness look like in a practical sense...it looks like love, and love is the fulfilment of the law. Any obedience we may have does nothing to...

I agree. BUT, the law is personified in Christ. It is Christ Himself Who comes and abides in our hearts and minds. It is His righteousness, His holiness that we embrace as we die to self. All by faith in Him. Righteousness by faith. Obedience is the fruit of the relationship we have with...

No, no. The commandment merely informed Paul of his sin. It didn't cause the sin. Paul caused the sin by succumbing to lust. But he didn't know until he read the law. Again no. The husband is not a metaphor for the law. It's a metaphor for the old man. We die to sin. We die to the old...

What did they never explain?

I understand that. Get it totally. It's a shame that so many have suffered from such a deceptively warped view of the gospel.

Again, I disagree. Sinful passions are aroused through our own fleshly lusts. What the law does is reveal it to us who are blind to the reality of sin because of the deceptive nature thereof.

That is true. So, coming to realisation of our weakness, what then is the solution?

It's ironic that Jane asked who taught me, then presented an exclusive position taught by Watchtower. No personal testimony by which to ascertain ether the taught doctrine can be displayed, experienced, or presented. I was taught by Jesus. My introduction to Christianity wasn't through the...

"There is no condemnation for them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. "

You are taking a very legalistic view, one which ironically is presumed to be the adventist mainstream biblical worldview, which in your post above repeats. See previous post above.

I've reposted the following several times on this site, and still believe it is appropriate to this topic... 3 Spiritual laws that govern life. "For I delight in... Law One: ..........The law of God after the inward man".....(Romans 7:22) Paul has nothing but love and respect for God's law. He...

I'm not so sure I agree with you. The human problem has never been with the law, but how to obey it, and God's problem is how to reverse that situation. In other words, the problem that God has (which He has resolved through Christ) from the beginning has been determined to accomplish was to...

There were different categories of law within the whole context of law given. There were civil laws that governed how the nation was to be governed organisationally as a civil nation. There were health laws including diet and sanitary instructions. There were the laws of course associated with...

I experienced the new birth. It wasn't something that was taught. My life, the new mindset and worldview that came with the filling of the holy Spirit and receiving the mind of Christ, is all the proof i need. Along with that came relationship. A personal relationship with God closer than that...

The law being written on your heart isn't in the form of letters and words. It's in the form of love for God and your fellow man. In the practice and outworking of that love, the law is fulfilled, "for love is the fulfillment of the law". However, you and I know that there are times when we...

All creation testifies to and is operating from the context of law. Science is the discovery of how law governs the planet. Science would not exist without law. Mathematics... Physics... Biology... All governed by laws established by our Creator. Spiritual and human interpersonal relationships...

What law then is the foundation of the kingdom of God?

You change your position like a fart in the wind. OSAS in the context of abiding faithfully in Christ is a sound concept, but it is conditional. Christ indeed promised that no-one could be taken out of His hand once they accepted Him. My beef with your position is that while you claim the above...

How would you know they were out of context when you didn't look at any of them, let alone the context?