Sorry, I don't know anybody who would agree with this interpretation. In context, Paul is talking about his own personal experience with the Law--not about the giving of the Law at Sinai!
Your interpretation is subjective. There is no time when Paul was without the Law. If Jesus was born under the law in Galatians 4:4, then Paul was also.
But one thing is right. There are not too many who believe the gospel anymore since the Reformation. It has been so twisted, after centuries, the wrong is seen as right, and the right is seen as heresy.
You're getting your terminology wrong because you're taking words out of their context. A word means different things in different contexts! The Law did bring life. The Bible says so. Obedience to the Law brought life! "You shall live by the Law," the Bible says.
This was talking about the blessings of the Law, given on Mt. Gerazim, and not about mortality. On the other hand, the Bible elsewhere speaks of "life" in the context of Eternal Life. In that case, the word "life," in context, refers to Eternal Life. It is just an abbreviated form of the same.
If we mix the blessings of the Law with Eternal Life, we confuse two distinct and different definitions of "life." You need to keep them straight!
I'm not talking about "blessings" and neither is Paul in Romans 7. He is talking about the Ten Commandments, the ministry of death. Did you know that is what Paul called the Law?
Paul said his "blamelessness" under the Law included "persecuting the church." Do you really think he was "blameless" because he persecuted the Church? That was *not* keeping the Law! Paul was arguing that he viewed himself as blameless when he was a non-Christian because in keeping the Law he thought his job was to defend the Law, when it wasn't! This is a rhetorical argument, indicating that the condition in which Paul saw himself as blameless did not really make him blameless!
I agree. But I brought that up because of you saying Paul had mixed feelings concerning the law, and I told you when he was a Pharisee he thought himself blameless.
Not really correct. Jesus forgave us "while we were yet sinners."
That is a misquote, I don't know to what purpose. Romans 5:8 says Jesus DIED for us while we were yet sinners. That death still needs to be applied, and that is when we repent.
And he is *still willing to forgive us* when we still sin! John, in
1 John 1, argues that we are still sinners, and still are forgiven *when we confess our sins,* and not when we become sinless, or the sin nature is exterminated completely.
Once when we truly repent of our weakness to sin, Jesus forgives us of our past sins. But then He gives us His Spirit to keep us free from sinning in the future. As I said before it is not a sin, repent, sin, repent, sin, repent; living in constant defeat to a carnal nature that Jesus left us in. NO! He gave us His Spirit to create a new nature. We are born again, and MUST be born again to be saved. The new nature has no desire to sin, thus it abhors sin, and cannot do it. 1 John 3:9. There is no need to keep repenting for sins you are not doing. 1 John 1:9 is not a card to be played over and over, but just once to become a Christian. We were sinners, but after coming to Christ we are no longer slaves to sin, but are children of God. If you don't know that, then you don't know the gospel. The truth shall set you free. John 8:32-36.
That is false. Glorification takes place in the resurrection, when we become imortal.
You are confusing our spirits with our bodies that must put on immortality after death. Our nature is already taking on glorification as we go through the steps in 2 Peter 1:5-10. You've just never been taught the truth before.
Romans 8:10
And if Christ
is in you, the body
is dead because of sin, but the
spirit is life because of righteousness.
I think bad teachers have passed along bad teaching. And I think you can increase your effectiveness if you correct some of these errors. And if you don't want to pass on errors to others, you need to deal with them, if the Lord so shows you.
LOL I was thinking the same about you. You are quoting false teachers from the past, so their teachings need to be eradicated from your mind, and you need to start over and ask the Author of His Word to teach you what He means.
Nowhere in Scriptures do you read that "sin has been taken out of us once and for all."
Are you going by your own experience? My experience is that the Word of God is true, and the truth shall make you free.
1 John 3
5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.
9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
Amen! He has.
Rather, the *sentence of sin," committing us to death, has been removed once and for all--a very different statement! But since sin is still in us, we have to live by the grace of Christ, and ask his pardon whenever we sin. And we do all sin!
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,
who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin
is death, but the gift of God
is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
If you quench the Spirit in you that deters you from sin, and go ahead and willfully sin, the wages of sin is still death.
Hebrews 10:26-31
Good night, brother.