heretoeternity said:
Your problem is your fixation with Paul and misinterpretation of his epistles...seems your fixation is based on looking for ways to get out of keeping God's law, the ten commandments, instead of ways to keep them...remember Paul cannot save you, as you seem to think...only Jesus, His teachings in the Gospels, and His sacrifice on the Cross can save you...As Peter warns in 2nd Peter 3.16...you misinterpret Paul's messages to your own destruction...1st John says this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments, and they are not burdensome!....
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I don't have a problem. It is clear to me that Jesus taught the law to those under the law. Those in Christ are dead to the law. All you are doing is what the Judaizers were doing to Paul's convert; get them back under the law.
Rom 6:10-12
10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
NKJV
Verse 12 is what many use to put those of faith back under the law. But that is not what it says. Those who have faith In Jesus' work on the cross are walking in faith and the law is dead to them
Rom 7:4-6
4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another — to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.
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But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
NKJV
If a person, like many on this forum, are so interested in sin then they are not walking in the Spirit.