Nonsense Abraham was saved by faith and imputed righteousness from God even before the law. Salvation has always been based on God's grace through faith which inputs righteousness and produces a "doing" faith that produces good fruit.
The law which came 430 years later could not make void the promise given to Abraham and to his seed by faith, which was Christ working in them. So the Jews who were saved in the OT are also saved based on the same faith in what God said to do, not by the works of law. No one is justified by the works of the law, so it was always based on faith and a working righteousness being manifest in the believer by Christ in them, the seed of promise.
The law which came 430 years later could not make void the promise given to Abraham and to his seed by faith, which was Christ working in them. So the Jews who were saved in the OT are also saved based on the same faith in what God said to do, not by the works of law. No one is justified by the works of the law, so it was always based on faith and a working righteousness being manifest in the believer by Christ in them, the seed of promise.
For the believer it's all by faith in what Christ has already done for us. Works-righteousness is the person "doing the work" in order to either get or "maintain" righteousness. This is the difference and go back to post #459 as it gives further clarification.
If we can't see the difference between works-righteousness and faith-righteousness - then I can see why some people have trouble with the gospel of the grace of Christ.
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