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You could argue, "Well, it's not you doing the good deeds, now, it's Christ." That's all fine and well, but Christ isn't going to go to hell if I don't do the good deeds, I will, so it's me doing them, but if I'm saving myself, I'm my own god, and that's idolatry, which will bring me to hell.

Paul compares salvation that faith in Jesus effects to that deliverance the Jews had from Egypt... but, afterward, they displeased God by sinning, so they fell under His wrath, and were rejected and did not inherit the promise (which, today, corresponds to the eternal life which is "in His...

Maybe I "trust", but I overemphasize the wrong verses and/or underemphasize the right ones in my "trust".

1. Work of Law I am trying to figure out: if I'm not saved by works of Law (which includes "love God"--"By the the Law comes the knowledge of sin" and "I would not have known sin lest the Law had said, 'do not covet'" (Ro 3:19,20, 7:7)), then how is it that my salvation seemingly depends on it...

I guess I don't "trust" God enough. But "trust" means "I heard God say something, and I trust that"--and I am trusting all the threats I see Him making in Scripture, so why isn't that "trust"?

With respect to the citation of 1 John, 1 John also defines "perfect love": "but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected." So, yes, if you obey Him, you won't be afraid. That seems to be what this is saying. It's also rational: Adam first feared when he first sinned...

By the way, isn't loving God a work of the Law?

Huzzah.

Also, I think my question is along the lines of "saved by faith or saved by works". I really don't understand that. But I guess your answer would be, "Yes, you are saved by works--the first good work is to love God, then, you will do things for the God you love." It's just insulting to be...

I guess this is a right answer, and I just don't love God enough.

I am motivated by fear of destruction, but I was told, in prayer, not to even be afraid of going to hell, but to serve completely out of love, but I find it difficult to forget I am being threatened, and I am motivated by the threat, so, when I am told, "Just serve completely out of love, not...

Thanks. Not to be offensive, but I am looking for Scriptural answers.

It's a good point, actually. You will undoubtedly hear the retort, "Therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus! Romans 8:1!" Unfortunately, virtually no one is serious in their Bible reading. An elementary school student could look at the word "therefore", and...

I have been a Christian for longer than I'd like to admit (because my life doesn't really show it), and I've studied questions of serving God for a good while, and you'd think I'd have the answers I need by now, but it could be my pride and arrogance that makes God want to hide the truth from...

Christians have the New Covenant promise that God writes His law on their hearts and minds (Jer 31:31-34; Ro 2:6-16,26,27, 3:31, 8:4, 13:8-10), and, so, if they walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit (Ro 8:12,13), they are deemed "doers of the Law", even without knowing the Law (Ro 2:14).

"For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under the Law but under grace." Romans 6:14 It seemingly refers to the method whereby we have righteousness and are justified--today, and in the last judgment. If so, it wouldn't mean "we're not accountable to God's righteous...

This doesn't mean "well we're going to sin without the Law", because the power of the righteousness is not in ourselves, but since "God Is Our Righteousness" Jeremiah 23:6 He does not need instruction. We are "not under Law but under Grace" Romans 6:14.

@Desire Of All Nations People thought that some of these elemental realities were actually these various beings.

1a. Circumcision is the Law, and Paul says "now you have to keep the whole Law to be justified by the Law" (as James also says "he who keeps the Law but stumbles in one point offends the entire Law"), so it is clear what they are turning to. 1b. "Elemental spirits" is "stoicheia"--elements...