Of course my motivation is keeping the law.
Do YOU want to break the laws of God?
But what IS the motivation to keep the law?
Is it fear?
Is it love?
If someone loves God and keeps the law he is heaven-bound.
If someone fears God and keeps the law he is heaven-bound.
Love is better,,,but either one will get the person to heaven.
Where is YOUR method laid out in scripture?
You posted some verses in your post before this and I showed you how it didn't even prove what you said by highlighting some verses.
John 3:17-21 Jesus said:
17“For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. 18“He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19“This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. 20“For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21“But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”
First of all, God DOES appreciate good deeds, just our "believing" is not enough.
Second of all, what does BELIEVE mean anyway?
Does is mean we ARE to be obedient, or does it mean we are NOT to be obedient?
And because keeping the law is your motivation, you are walking under law.
Of course I don't want to break God's Laws. I am neither trying to break or keep the 10 commandments.
Believe means 'believe'.
Stranger