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No, i thought you DID say "passive and active", and I was agreeing with what you said!

Notice he refers to "the Word ingraft"--that is, "I will write My Law on their heart", which is the convictions being written on our hearts : 21Therefore, ridding yourselves of all filthiness and all [t]that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save...

Yes, "Or do you despise the riches of God's kindness, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?" : both passive and active elements are here, because it is God's kindness being given (passive) that empower the return to Him (active).

I stand by my view on the verses (which I read in context, not in a vacuum, so I understand the main goal of his argument is that the Galatians are not to be persuaded with a persuasion that does not come from God (Gal 5:7,8), but which is a doctrine of demons 2 Ti 4:1, which, therefore...

The entire question was as to whether Gentile Christians were under Law--I've fleshed that out further in my reply, which went unanswered, and probably unread.

You have to remember that this entire dialogue centers around the issue of Peter not walking in the truth of the Gospel. but even going so far as to have led Gentiles to become circumcised, which dialogue serves merely as an example supplied to the Galatians to further substantiate Paul's...

1. As stated, the issue Paul was addressing was whether Christians (especially Gentiles) were under Law--thus it is not relevant. Galatians 2 17“But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be! 18“For...

I thought you were asking what the NC hinged upon. My thought was that everything in the NC hinges on God's love and righteousness--and the rest are details about His love and righteousness.

I thought I'd addressed the issue in point #2. Please clarify if I did not.

"The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation because in it God's righteousness is revealed from faith to faith"--and "He commends His love"... if you know a better characterization, please let me know.

Those who break God's Law of Faith/do not walk in faith are not remaining in Christ, as I've proven.

"for him it is unclean" -- it ACTUALLY defiles him In other words, we are called to freedom--quit doing things against yourself, quit disturbing your own peace, be free, don't be a slave of your body, be free agreeing with your own mind. Other examples were supplied : "observes the day as unto...

God's love and therefore God's righteousness.

1. The point being argued in Galatians 2 is that people are not under the Law--it's not relevant here, because I don't argue we are under Law but under Grace (Law is a righteousness of my own in practice, Grace is God's righteousness in practice). 2. When seeking to be justified by God's...

The Law of Faith "each man must be fully convinced in his own mind" is from God, thus breaking that Law of Faith is categorized as "sin", and the man is "condemned". Whose rule did he break? God's. Who justifies the man who walks by God's rule? God. Who condemns the man who walks by God's rule...

This goes with Galatians : though he quotes "the just shall live by faith, he nowhere says the Galatians should resort to "faith in Christ alone", rather, he leads them to the Law of Faith in practice ("serve one another by faith working through love"). His issue was they were being led away...

The reason this does not overturn the idea that walking in faith is required for justification is that "God Is Our Righteousness", thus "God's righteousness is revealed from faith to faith", and "let each man be fully convinced in his own mind", so that the person's own convictions condemning...

I like this, because it goes together with Matthew 18 and with Matthew 25--in both cases (the lazy servant and the unforgiving servant) of loss of salvation, the problem was not yielding, or bringing forth, the fruit of what had been done for them, by cause of them apparently not contemptating...

YES, God forgives... but, again, this proves that faith is something to be WALKED in, not merely to be HELD. As far as to whether Christians can "fluctuate" in justification : John, himself, warns the spiritually immature, the "little children", to remain in Christ or else they will shrink back...

Yep! God calls people to peace--"The circumcised shouldn't become uncircumcised, the uncircumcised shouldn't become circumcised", the Jew doesn't need to eat pork, the Gentile doesn't need to observe the Sabbath, but we should remain as He called us, and let Him guide us into truth from the...