Instead of grandstanding and posturing...why not actually use that mind of yours for something other than self-justification. Engage the text. Engage the words from God.
Something you don't do-engaging the text brother. And IF you do you bring in your assumptions and reading into the text what is NOT there.
Romans 3:21-24 (ESV):
"But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the
righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus."
Romans 5:17 (ESV):
"For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ."
2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV):
"For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."
Philippians 3:9 (ESV):
"And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith."
Titus 3:5 (ESV):
"He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit."
Romans 4:3 (ESV):
"For what does the Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.’"
Here, Paul references Genesis 15:6, demonstrating that Abraham's faith was credited to him as righteousness, not based on works.
Romans 4:5 (ESV):
"And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness."
This verse clearly states that righteousness is imputed to those who trust in God rather than relying on their own works.
Rom 4:1 What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?
Rom 4:2 for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast—but not before God;
Rom 4:3 for what doth the writing say? 'And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him—to righteousness;'
Rom 4:4 and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt;
Rom 4:5 and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned—to righteousness:
Rom 4:6 even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:
Rom 4:7 'Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;
Rom 4:8 happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.'
Rom 4:9 Is this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision—for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham—to righteousness?
Rom 4:10 how then was it reckoned? he being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;
Rom 4:11 and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,
Rom 4:12 and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.
The Promise Realized Through Faith
Rom 4:13 For not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;
Rom 4:14 for if they who are of law are heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless;
Rom 4:15 for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither is transgression.
Rom 4:16 Because of this it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham,
Rom 4:17 who is father of us all (according as it hath been written—'A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe—God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.
Rom 4:18 Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: 'So shall thy seed be;'
Rom 4:19 and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah's womb,
Rom 4:20 and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God,
Rom 4:21 and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do:
Rom 4:22 wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.
Rom 4:23 And it was not written on his account alone, that it was reckoned to him,
Rom 4:24 but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned—to us believing on Him who did raise up Jesus our Lord out of the dead,
Rom 4:25 who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.
Romans 4:6-8 (ESV):
"Just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works: ‘Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.’"
Paul uses David’s words to illustrate that righteousness is imputed apart from works, focusing on the forgiveness and covering of sins.
Told you before, you are no teacher but an impediment to others who need to hear the good news of Jesus Christ.
