If you return to the Law, you have left Grace. You can have Law, or you can have Grace. But if you choose Law, you have to be perfect in all of it. Not your "short list" missing the ceremonial Law, or some such like that.
You only have to literally keep all the law if you are trying to be justified (made righteous) by the law, as the Galatians were trying to do. For believers, we uphold the law through our faith in Christ. Which means some laws are literally upheld by us when we 'love our neighbor as ourselves', loving them 'in action and in truth', while other laws are upheld for us through our faith in the finished work of Christ and don't require a literal 'letter of the law' keeping of the law by us. The laws about blood sacrifice for sin are the best example of that. So you can see it's not a 'short list' of the law. It's the whole law of Moses. Faith in Christ upholds the
entire law of Moses. Some of it literally by us. The rest of it upheld by Christ's work on the cross.
I'm fixated on the wrong thing, am I? I'm fixated on Jesus Christ, and His work, and His faith, and His sanctification, and His righteousness.
All Christians are fixated on that. Even the fake ones. This fixation doesn't mean you have all that applied to your life in salvation. You know if it's truly applied to you in salvation by if you're a new creation that seeks to live for God and not purposely living in your old life of willful sin in the name of grace.
Now that the Christian says he's saved he is told to 'make your calling and election sure'. If you can't do that then you have to honestly consider whether you're really in the faith or not. And then fix it if you're not. But once saved always saved will tell you to forget all that (Biblical) stuff and just assure yourself that you can not lose the salvation that you say you have (but may not have at all) and just plug along in your unchanged life telling yourself that you are saved and can't lose it.
And besides . . . in this passage you've quoted . . . where did it say they were hellbound? Or are you just adding that in because it puts some fire in your message?
They rejected justification through faith. They have denied Christ. They are not trusting in Christ apart from works of the law for justification. They are accursed. They will go to the lake of fire. I thought you understood that better than me, lol. Are you now saying that's not true?
What does it say? You've fallen from Grace. Become alienated from Christ. Are you thinking this mean that God's promise, I will NEVER leave you, nor forsake, stops being true?
I don't know. I just know they don't believe in faith in Christ apart from works of the law for justification. You people are the quickest of all people to make sure everyone understands that the person who is working the works of the law to be justified is damned for following a works gospel. Now I'm the one that has to convince you of that? That's funny.
God forbid!! I'll take God's clear Word over you additions to the passage any day!
I'm the one going by the clear words of Galatians. They have departed from reliance on Christ exclusively for justification. They're working to earn their own salvation. And now you are going to tell me that's not a damnable works gospel after all, despite your insistence all along that it is? You're the one making additions to the passage and now flip flopping and saying their works gospel does not damn them.
It's this focus on "works of Law", as if that's what gives you "feelings of assurance" of salvation, that is what "falling from grace" is.
I know that assurance through how you act is a foreign aspect of the gospel to you. The church departed from that message of assurance spelled out in our Bibles a long time ago and replaced it with a once saved always saved message of assurance. The assurance that you are saved comes through seeing the Holy Spirit at work in your deeds (1 John 3:24). Meanwhile, the
security of salvation comes through the perfect work of Christ in salvation. Don't confuse the assurance that you are really saved with the security of salvation. The Bible is crystal clear about this, assurance comes from how you behave. How we act in accordance to God's commands is how we are 'sure' that we are really saved. You make your calling and election sure by what you do (Hebrews 6:11, 2 Peter 1:10). Strive to do that, Peter says! (Yes, I know.....'strive' is the forbidden word of the works gospel never to be uttered in the church these days, lol).
You stop looking to Jesus, and start looking to what you do, or, more to the point, your own opinions of yourself.
No, lol. You look to what Jesus is doing in you. This is a Biblical truth that the church knows nothing about anymore, but it's right in the Bible. The church can't see that truth in the Bible anymore because it replaced Biblical assurance with once saved always saved assurance.
We are not saved or kept saved by "feeling saved", because we've created some measure for ourself which we find we "live up to".
It's not about what you feel. It's about what you do. What you do shows if you have the Holy Spirit inside of you in salvation or not. That's how you 'make your calling and election sure'. I get why that's alien to you. The church does not teach this Biblical truth anymore. Christians are programmed by the church to not see it in the Bible even when they do read it in the Bible. Christians almost always give preference to what they've been taught over what the Bible says.
I agree with you completely, the most important thing is to make certain we know our Creator. But you won't find that in works of Law.
You do not understand the argument. You don't get saved and come into a knowing relationship with God by keeping the law.
You know you're in a knowing relationship with God by if you uphold the righteousness of the law. That's the argument.
1 John 3
4Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
6No one who lives in him keeps on sinning.
No one who continues to sin (breaks the law) has either seen him or known him.
You can have a great relationship with someone else's covenant, but the Law is only the barest starting point in experiencing, possessing, eternal life with our Heavenly Father.
You don't keep the law to obtain eternal life. In this New Covenant you 'keep' the law because you are in the New Covenant God has established with his people. I'm continually amazed at how the church can only understand upholding the law as you trying to earn your salvation as if that is the only thing 'keeping' the law can mean. It's very narrow thinking. The church has no grasp at all that faith upholds the law of Moses even when you show them that Paul plainly said it does (Romans 3:31). The church is so programmed to only be able to see 'keeping' the law as trying to save yourself that even when they read Romans 3:31 they still can't see 'keeping' the law any other way.