What do you mean Jason, can you explain with scripture... I do agree their has to be a change of heart.
sure I can offer a lot of scripture, if youll accept Jesus words, would be very glad to do that for you.
the first issue, is forgiveness. the gog believes forgiveness is non conditional. Jesus teaches clearly to His folloowers
first we have Jesus prayer example....Matthew 6:9-15.....v 12 "forgive us our debts as we foirgive our debtors...oparticularly clear and not really able to not interpret it correctly v14-15 " for if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly father will also forgive your sins. BUT if you do not forgive men their sins, your heavenly father WILL NOT forgive your sins."
also the parable of the unforgiving debtor. matthew 18 :21-35. we know its about forgiveness by the question asked of Jesus. then he ANSWERS THIS PARAble. its long but clear so ill just Give you an idea of what it says and you can look at it yourself. a man owes a debt to great for him to pay, he is condemned because he cant pay the debt. he begs for mercy, the master grants forgiveness of His huge unpayable debt. the man goes out in joy and runs into a person who owes him a little bit and cant pay. the man who was forgiven, has no mercy for the other who asks for mercy. instead, he has him thrown into jail....the master hears what the man did after he forgave him his great debt, and the master is enraged ( because it is unjust to receive mervy and not give mercy),,,,,the master calls the man into his chambers who was forgiven in the start of tha parable. Now the master puts him in prison to be tortured....the final verse makes it clear v35 " This is how my Father will treat all of you unless you forgive your brother from the heart."
there are more if you wish, ill get some to you. but these two alone make it clear that we are forgiven what we couldn't pay, gods grace. we are so joyful now, BUT we are now obligated to forgive others or else.....well ill let everyone else decide that I have my own belief of what Jesus said here, and don't accept I'm mis interpreting it lol. especially with the other same teachings......
my point is, when we look at Jesus Gospel, we find the obligation we have to grace. Grace is not free, it was free for us to receive, but Jesus, paid beyond our conception, suffering, indignity, shame, death beating, he was spit on mocked, rejected...treated like a terrible criminal and made a public spectacle of...why??? to offer Grace to you and I. this is my OBLIGATION to Jesus. he gave me the most expenxive "free gift" that could ever be given. and he makes a point before the cross to say Obey my commands in john 14-15 3 separate times. and then after the cross, his la=st instruction is go teach all nations to obey EVERYTHING I have commanded you."
so the pre cross- post cross idea, is eliminated. its still obedience to Jesus commands or Teachings. every woprd Jesus spoke and taught is GODS only doctrine. people read paul, and ignore James if we read paul and add james, then we understand what faith is.
forgiveness is only one thing that is based upon our behavior not according to Law ( wich is what galatians is about, judaizers had come and tried to make them obey the jewish customs in order to be a Christian.) it had nothing to do with obedience to Christ. galatians is about trying to impose mans laws on Christ. Christ Jesus is our gospel, His 4 gospels are the Christian Life.
if you would like to discuss more, or add some thoughts id be honored God bless
