All are under sin:

[H. Richard]

It was asked by someone “would God ask us to do what we couldn’t do?“

He asked the Jews to keep the Law of Moses. However, when they, the Jews, killed their Messiah (Jesus) He concluded that no man could keep the Law of Moses and He had another plan to save sinful men, a plan to shed the blood of His righteous Son on the cross to pay for the sins of mankind.

Romans 3:9-10
9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
10 As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one;
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Galatians 3:21-26
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.
22 But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.
24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
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In this age of God’s grace salvation in not obtained by “not sinning in the flesh.” It is only obtained by a person placing their belief in the work of God on the cross. That means for a person to deny that they can do anything righteous to save him/her self and to simply place all their faith, trust, confidence and hope in what Jesus did on the cross. To claim His work on our behalf is our salvation. Jesus (God) gets all the glory and praise.

In this age of God’s grace all God asks a person to do is trust in His plan of salvation by placing their faith in His Son’s work on the cross. It is the only way that a person can be saved and yet many do not believe it is that simple.

2 Corinthians 11:3
3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
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[Ernest T. Bass]

God never required the Jews to keep His laws perfectly, flawlessly. All God asked for was a simple faithful obedience.

Abraham nor David kept God's laws perfectly but both were still justified anyway due to both having a simple faithful obedience.


It has been said 'what God requires, Christ provides'. God does require man to be sinless in order for man to enter heaven for no man can take one sin into heaven with him.

Yet man is not perfectly sinless.

So God provided Christ whose perfect obedience made Him perfect, sinless. Therefore those men who have a faithful obedience will obey Christ's commands to believe, repent confess and be baptized. When one is baptized he is baptized into Christ (Galatians 3:27) and being in Christ one then is covered by Christ's perfect righteousness therefore seen as perfect by God through Christ. The phrase "have put on Christ" (Greek - endyo) from Galatians 3:27 carries the idea of putting on clothing, putting on coat. Therefore those with a faithful obedience have put on Christ are "clothed" in His perfect righteousness and again, are seen by God as perfect, sinless. But it takes a faithful obedience for this to happen. If man could keep the law perfect, flawlessly then there would have been no need for Christ.

 

[justbyfaith]

I do find that in preaching the doctrine of entire sanctification, I am laying down the law of the New Testament as a schoolmaster to bring men unto Christ.

Once we come to faith, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

Nevertheless, He says, Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. in 1 Thessalonians 5:24.

 

[Enoch111]

He asked the Jews to keep the Law of Moses. However, when they, the Jews, killed their Messiah (Jesus) He concluded that no man could keep the Law of Moses and He had another plan to save sinful men, a plan to shed the blood of His righteous Son on the cross to pay for the sins of mankind.

This is not exactly what we find in the Bible other than the last statement (as bolded).

1. God planned for the sacrifice of the Lamb of God (Christ) from before the foundation of the world.
2. The Law of Moses was given to Israel to establish God's righteousness.
3. God always justified (saved) sinners by His grace through faith.
4. All the sacrifices within the Law of Moses were meant to temporarily cover (or atone) for sins. But they prefigured Christ's one great sacrifice for sins forever.
5. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.
6. The Jews killed their Messiah because they refused to believe on Him.
7. God already knew well in advance how Christ would be rejected and crucified.
8. Today salvation is by grace through faith in Christ and His finished work of redemption.
9. Those who are saved by grace are saved "unto good works" and righteous living, and are kept by the power of God.
10. Those who are justified by grace are sanctified by the Spirit and will be glorified when Christ comes for His saints at the Resurrection/Rapture.

 

[Episkopos]

"I was asked by someone “would God ask us to do what we couldn’t do?“

Your answer would be..yes!... He would ask us to do something like be perfect and overcome sin all by ourselves WITHOUT giving us the power to do it. (you don't believe that God can empower us in these human bodies). Or you would say we need to ignore God's commands and laws in order to be saved by a wishful thinking version of grace. A make believe righteousness by human self-serving beliefs.

But the gospel is according to power...the grace to walk as Jesus walked.

So then the real answer is NO! God would never ask us to do something without giving us access to the power to fulfill it.

 

[justbyfaith]

What the law says (see Romans 3:10-18 for what the law says to those who are under it), it says to those who are under the law (Romans 3:19).

Paul said to us that we are not under the law but under grace (Romans 6:14).

Therefore the assessment of who we were under the law is no longer true of us, since we are no longer under the law.