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I appreciate how you are breaking the Greek down; I do not gloss over it, because I do not like when others gloss over my efforts which I take for their own good.

What you claim is incomplete and could mislead--if it is not also the case that you are also misled.

Obviously, one truth seems to conflict with another (or else there would be only one Church worldwide with one confession), until you read some more.

I've supplied you with ample explanations for why they were incomplete; you may respond to all of the information I have already spent my resources supplying you with.

Yeah, because if your works don't align with your faith, there is a fracture--what you think is what you do, so when you do deeds not in alignment with what you are claiming you believe, those previous thoughts/faith go away. This is the parable of the sower--some seed fell on rocky ground, some...

Your post was partially accurate, partially inaccurate; I have proposed the solution.

I will read through these carefully, but I wanted to comment : Ro 1:17 God's righteousness is revealed from faith to faith ... The just shall live by faith Heb 10 My righteous one will live by faith, but if My righteous one shrinks back My soul has no pleasure in him Heb 11 Without faith it is...

When did I say we were under the Law? We're under Grace--and Grace produces convictions in men, and the men are to walk by those convictions (Ro 14:5), or else face condemnation (Ro 14:23) for not walking in love (because faith works by love). HOW is it that the man is "condemned" if all you...

@Johann It seems to me the Gospel is the declaration of God's righteousness (Ro 1:17)... but, also, of men possessing God's righteousness (Jer 23:6)... so, yes, "God is faithful and righteous to forgive our sins, and cleanse us of all unrighteousness," but that "talent" He sows into us is to...

I welcome any and all break down of Scripture you think will add clarification.

Scriptural statements.

Faith is both passive and active--John always passively identified himself as "the one Christ loved"--and, he says, "we love because He loved us first"... whereas Peter always declared his love for God, and failed... the means to love God and men is by passive reception of God's love on God's...

On the contrary, those "in Christ" enjoy "no condemnation", but the one who does not walk in faith is condemned (Ro 14:23), because he is not remaining "in Christ", as Christ says (Jn 15), because remaining in Christ (Whose Name is "God Is Our Righteousness"), is by faith in Him AND (walking in...

@Johann So much so that Jesus doesn't even find fault with the lazy servant, when he accuses Jesus of being "an austere man"; He only finds fault with the lazy servant for NOT WALKING CONSISTENTLY WITH HIS CONVICTIONS--for not walking in his faith! Matthew 25 26‘You wicked, lazy servant!’...

Consider : Romans 2 says the Gentile believers are "a Law unto themselves", and, accordingly, will not be judged by the Law, but by "their own thoughts accusing or else excusing them"--this is nothing other than the ultimate expression of/culmination of Romans 14:5 "each man must be fully...

Yes, "God's righteousness" doesn't count as "works", which word corresponds to "a righteousness of my own". "My own righteousness from [knowledge of good and evil--of which "the Law" is but a species]" would lead people to focus on me and praise me as I boast of my goodness; "God's...

Paul is hard to understand. Taking a tiny strip of Scripture, "I'm not justified by 'works'", has led to a misunderstanding; saying, "I'm not justified by my own righteousness (which is what 'works' corresponds to), I'm justified by God's righteousness (which is what 'faith' corresponds to), by...

Walking in faith (not qualifying as "works") is the topic lol

This is a forum for discussion. I assume I'll find views different from mine here.

And there is a reason: the Law of Faith extends into the walk.