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I think people get very confused about what Paul calls the law......or works of the law...which is Judaism. Some Jewish believers preached that Gentiles must convert to Judaism to be saved. Paul sought to correct this. But this is not the same thing as the law of God....which is to be written...

Amen. The law only condemns us when we are acting outside of the power, life and presence of God. It reveals us for who we are...weak. So it really comes down to this simple thing.....are we acting WITH God in what we do? With God is grace and the ability to do all things. His strength makes...

people have a hard time understanding spiritual things because there are seeming contradictions in the flesh. Grace seems to be saying something very different than the law of God. The flesh cannot discern the truth because of self-interest. But both grace and the law are speaking of Christ. So...

Everyone has a right to their opinion. But that's all you are providing here. You are exposing yourself to have a very narrow view of things...with nothing to back it up.

The law of God doesn't change with grace.

Agreeing with heaven....I like that! :)

This is of course a popular modern doctrine...but that has no basis in reality. People today don't believe it is possible to no longer sin. Paul was being honest. He was still sinning in spite of having no wish to. It was "sin in him". Then he needed to go to God so that this would become "no...

Neither does sin....but to experience liberation from sin is a further work of the cross....which is also by grace. We need to go to God to complete our entrance into the full grace of God.

That's not how law works. The law of God is like the law of gravity...it is immutable. The only way to overcome the law of gravity...is with a greater law...the law of flight...or in this case, the law of faith. What I meant about setting the law aside was that Paul didn't consider what he was...

It's not that he returned to the law.....it's that grace was trying to get him away from the law. The law doesn't go away...we just set it aside for a time to concentrate on life in Christ. But if while we are seeking to live in Christ we become lawbreakers...then there is something we're...

Adam was tempted in his natural man. Just as we can be. The fact that Adam sinned without a sin nature shows that sin does not just come from a sinful nature...a sinful nature comes from indulging in sin. We all have a natural part of us....a human outer person that we interact with other and...

For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. 1 John 5:4

The law could not then have "killed" Paul while he was yet an unregenerate man. He thought he was justified by the law. He would never have seen the law as something that condemned him...before encountering the Lord, that is. He was raised in Judaism. Go ask any Jew if he feels that God gave...

It must go back to the holy purpose of the law. Can we ignore the law of God? We will all be judged by the law. Our works must be found to be lawful. This is the problem with understanding grace...unless we understand that through grace we must fulfill the requirements of the law. Grace does not...

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We are born again by the Spirit apart from the law as Paul is describing. But then he was overcome by the law. What is better is to go to God for the full power of grace. The whole purpose of God is that we should seek Him and know Him...not just to give us gifts that make us able to live...

Paul is speaking of his early Christian walk....when he discovers that grace is not just life apart from the law...but a life that must also obey the law. At first these seem opposed to each other. The function of the law is that it exposes us to the standard of holiness that God expects of...

I think the error that many take away from the statement of Jesus concerning binding and loosing is a rendering of the text which would have it to say..."whatever you (decide to) bind will be bound in heaven and whatever you (decide to) loose will be loosed in heaven". The Greek states that...

Men understand authority as a hierarchy of luminaries. But Jesus submitted to the baptism of John...even thought the authority of John was far less than that of Jesus. Jesus respected the order given to John from God to baptize and preach. Jesus respected GOD'S authority...not John's. John...

Thank you and bless you Acolyte for your kind words and for your heart that is turned ever towards the Lord.