Paraphrasing here......If God came up with a set of Laws that could save anybody— “ Christ is Dead in Vain...”
If righteousness comes by the law, Christ is dead in vain; to be more accurate...
Which indicates that righteousness does come; which is attested to by the law and the prophets (Romans 3:21).
Christ is the END OF THE LAW for Righteousness””
For righteousness, we do obtain it by faith.
We receive the Spirit by faith (Galatians 3:14) and we thus bear the fruit of the Spirit; against which there is no law (Galatians 5:22-23).
Thus we have a righteousness of God apart from the law that is nevertheless attested to by the law and the prophets (Romans 3:21).
What this means is that the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in those who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit (Romans 8:4).
The law attests to the fact that this righteousness which is by faith is righteousness indeed (Romans 3:21).
Thus, the way that the law becomes a schoolmaster to lead men to Christ (Galatians 3:24-25) is in that it shows man that he is a sinner in need of a Saviour (Romans 3:20) who can save him from his sins (Matthew 1:21).
Here are 37 scriptures that prove that Christians are not under the law!
What you have to determine therefore is whether or not you are a Christian.
Those who are born of God "do not" and "cannot" commit sin (1 John 3:9); and the one who abideth in Him "sinneth not" (1 John 3:6) for ever (1 John 2:17).
I can’t prove it with Scripture , But I have a feeling those Creeps were always standing at the fringes....checking out their Enemy.....waiting for Him to say something that they could “try” to throw in His face later....
In Matthew 5-7, it was too early in the game for the scribes and Pharisees to be spying on Jesus.
The Standard is Perfection 24/7 and you, my friend do not MEET that Standard and you ain’t GONNA meet that Standard! <fify>
Heb 10:14, For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
If you are a Blessed person, a person whose heart has been pierced and convicted of Sin by hearing Jesus Sermon Of Condemnation for those That have not Turned to God, DO what this Sermon was intended to MAKE you do ! Get on your Sinful Knees and cry out like the Contrite Publican did—- “Lord,have Mercy on me, a Sinner”......That Prayer , according to Jesus got that man Saved . It was a prayer that got ME Saved. It is a prayer that will get YOU Saved .......It is a HOLY Promise from God and God NEVER breaks a Promise!
What I did when I read this Sermon was that my prayer was, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean..." to which He said, "
I am willing; be thou clean."
This is the response that the context would teach us to have when reading the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 8:1-4).
The question being that, If I consider myself a spiritual leper after having read the Sermon on the Mount, for that I do not measure up; what will being cleansed from that leprosy do for my practical life?
Your claim that you have a free pass through the pearly gates .. and do not have to pass judgement - is contrary to the teachings of Jesus.
I beg to differ.
Jesus said,
Jhn 5:24, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Not only did Paul not know Jesus - spending his time persecuting Christians while Jesus was alive - Paul does not know much about the teachings of Jesus.
nevertheless, Paul's writings are indirectly substantiated by Jesus. For Jesus gave credence to Peter (John 16:13) and Peter gave credence to Paul (2 Peter 3:15-16); who subsequently gave credence to the rest of holy scripture as being inspired by the Holy Ghost (2 Timothy 3:16); who I will say here is Jesus (His Spirit).
Where in the passage above does it say that Paul was one of Jesus's Sheep ?
You are grasping at straws. That Paul was one of Jesus' sheep is a given; and to say that he was not is basically a ridiculous notion.
The passage from Matt does not mention Paul - and I did not claim that Jesus did not know Paul <fify>.
You claimed that Paul did not know Jesus; yet, since Paul was one of Jesus' sheep, he did know Jesus according to John 10:14.
Further - nowhere in scripture does it say or suggest that Paul was personally tutored by Jesus for 3 years
It is most certainly suggested by holy scripture.
Doesn't help at all mate .. Nowhere in anything you posted is it suggested that Jesus spend 3 years tutoring Paul in Arabia.
I think that he actually made a pretty good case for that idea.
The claim that Paul was tutored directly by Jesus for 3 years makes no sense in light of what Paul wrote.
Jesus may have taught Paul things different than what he taught the original apostles...so that what Paul taught was the extra revelation that the original disciples could not bear before the Cross (John 16:12-13).
Then when corrected via my posting of the teachings of Jesus ..
I haven't seen you post the teachings of Jesus very much in all of your posting.
I view the teachings of Jesus as inspired .. the teachings of those which conflict with the teachings of Jesus .. not so much.
How about you ?
I consider that Jesus indirectly substantiated Paul by giving credence to Peter (John 16:13) who gave credence to Paul (2 Peter 3:15-16) and also made John 16:13 apply to Paul's writings.
and not simply on the basis that some global flood killing all Land Creatures sans Noah and kin didn't happen round 2100-2300 BC
2Pe 3:3, Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2Pe 3:4, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
2Pe 3:5, For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
2Pe 3:6, Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
So yes .. That we should submit and view vicious dictators as subjugating us under the authority of God ... such that we should not rebel .. and be passive sheep of Jesus .. because these are ordained servants of the Lord ..
You claim that this is the perspective of Jesus .. I beg to differ ..
It is indeed the perspective of Jesus...did He not tell us to turn the other cheek...and also to go the extra mile if someone forces you to go one mile? On the sabbath day, Jewish law prohibited travelling more than one mile...so Jesus was telling His disciples to place governmental rule over and above what the Pharisees' were teaching about the law of God at that time.
I provided Scriptural evidence that the Word of God .. is sometimes not "The word of God" :)
So, it seems to me that you are advocating "smorgasborg religion"
OK .. so now we have one Bible that says one thing .. and another that says another .. or can we just reject books at random ? claiming "That is not the word of God"
It seems to be what you do...