What do you think about works?

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eternally-gratefull

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God said, "I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." Is that for you, Blik? No; it was specifically for Abram. It wasn't for Moses, it wasn't for David, and it wasn't for Paul. Does that mean you shouldn't read it? No, but it does mean that it does not apply to you. It's the same with the Law; you can and should read it, but it was not given to you, and it does not apply to you.


However, He did not give them the Law, because He had a different strategy to bring them back, which would come about through the fulfillment of the Law, rather than through their obedience to it.
Amen, Jesus tried to tell them that and they crucified him for it
 
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eternally-gratefull

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The mistake in your Exegesis regarding the law and Jesus remarks about it in Matthew 5 is when he said he did not come to abolish the law.
He came to live the law by example, perfectly. He fulfilled the law by giving the full meaning to the laws obedience as it was meant to be followed.

Isaiah 42:21 “The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will MAGNIFY the law, and make it honourable.
He said he did not come to ABOLISH he came to fulfill

He fulfilled the law by

1. Not breaking even the slightest command. And comming under the curse
2. Taking the curse on our behalf. Because he who knew no sin became sin for us
3. As the sacrificial lamb on the day of atonement,t His blood was spilt. making atonement for us. That we a=who are guilty of the law. May be made the righteousness of Christ in him

once again, You just prove you do not understand the law
 
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eternally-gratefull

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Your Exegesis is demonstrated as errant yet again.

In scripture the covenant is an agreement between God and humanity. It is not the same as the Law. Because God's legislation, law, is his instruction regarding our right conduct. That is different than legislation, making laws.

The new agreement between God and humanity, the new covenant, reflects the changes in terms that make for a new agreement, covenant. It does not change God's legislation, law.

This is why Jesus, who was God, God being the Holy Spirit, said he did not come to abolish the (his) law.

He did come to make a new agreement with humanity.
Lol

God said you commit one sin, You have broken the covenant of the law

Your not going to like it when you meet God if you do not repent my friend.
 
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eternally-gratefull

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the old covenant was the law written on stone, the new covenant is the law written in the heart and the mind of a true Christian.
Jesus said the whole law is covered in two commands. I call it the law of Love

We learn to be command keepers by loving others. Not self. Not by following some written law. Which never made anyone righteous
 
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eternally-gratefull

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I've noticed your rhetoric when defending your Exegesis is limited and repetitive.
I'll leave it here. You don't display an open heart or mind to receive right teaching, and you're not qualified to provide right teaching.
Therefore, it is no longer proper to engage your efforts. Best to just insure you aren't allowed to continue when challenging others beliefs, or those seeking guidance, uncontested.

To God be the glory.
You should not talk about others and an open heart. When its obvious yours is closed.

That is the definition of hypocrisy
 
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eternally-gratefull

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what I think about work's is, "faith without works is dead," having faith in GOD and Christ, mean's we have a certain way of life we must adhere to, there are life changing experience's that we learn to adapt with to remain on the path of righteousness. We go to church to praise and worship GOD, to learn from Christ, and study with our brother's and sister;s, the scripture's, we are to be humble, kind, loving and forgiving, we are to help those in need, who cross our path, and we are to do all this without exception, without prejudice and without personal ideologies, if your forcing yourself to do anything in the name of Christ, that is work's, if it all come's without thought or wholeheartedly, that's faith: in GOD, in Christ and the Holy Spirit to direct your life.
This issue here in this thread is

Some reject the fact that true faith will produce true works.

They want to preach if you stop doing works you stop being a child of God. And even if you were adopted by him and made his son, You can be cast out and still go to hell if you do not work.

Its called legalism.
 

Dino246

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I've noticed your rhetoric when defending your Exegesis is limited and repetitive.
I'll leave it here. You don't display an open heart or mind to receive right teaching, and you're not qualified to provide right teaching.
Therefore, it is no longer proper to engage your efforts. Best to just insure you aren't allowed to continue when challenging others beliefs, or those seeking guidance, uncontested.

To God be the glory.
Your reasoning is flawed, and you don't have a clue about my qualifications. All you offer is insults and attacks with no evidence whatsoever to support your position. Go pester someone who is impressed by your noise and threats.
 
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SophieT

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Blik, post: 4652400, member: 249025"]So to you I am incensed and you are alarmed. Oh My. Now you are attempting to keep the law? Then keep the "you" out of your posts and only speak of scripture.

I certainly didn't mean to pull your tail, I wish you could forget whatever it was and back off. I love discussions of scripture and to hear what you have to say about scripture, but the discussion with you becomes blaming "blik". I don't think that is discussing scripture.


you seem to have a short attention span. you are not able to actually reply to what is in a post, but garble it and spit out nonsense

let's take a closer look at what I said and how you responded to the words. my words in green and yours in quotes

God created a race that listened to Him, God created the Hebrews.
especially the golden calf episode. ARE YOU KIDDING? read the OT prophets...

But to this day, people are saying we are not to listen to what God told the Hebrews, it was ONLY for them.
like I said...over and over and over and over and over zzzzzzzzzzzz

who is Jesus to you? is He the lawgiver or is He the spotless Lamb of God who died for our sins? you appear to be very confused on this issue and entrenched in that confusion so that you make up what others are saying


yet, you become incensed when others deny what you keep saying is the abandonment of all morality.

it is alarming that you appear to believe you can add to what Jesus accomplished on the cross on our behalf. it seems you wish to interject when Jesus says 'IT IS FINISHED'

you continually interrupt and say 'wait a minute Jesus...that sounds too easy....how about my attempts to keep the law?'

your respond with


So to you I am incensed and you are alarmed. Oh My. Now you are attempting to keep the law? Then keep the "you" out of your posts and only speak of scripture.


it seems you wish to create the impression that I am saying what YOU actually are saying. if you do not like the way people respond when you make things up, then try not making things up. you do not use scripture because if you did you would not continually create threads about law keeping for those who are believers.

I certainly didn't mean to pull your tail, I wish you could forget whatever it was and back off.
very classy. I know I don't have a tail...do you?

I love discussions of scripture and to hear what you have to say about scripture, but the discussion with you becomes blaming "blik". I don't think that is discussing scripture.
do you? then why do you twist what the scriptures state? the discussion when you create this type of thread, will always come back to you because your opinions do not equal scripture
 
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Jesus said the whole law is covered in two commands. I call it the law of Love

We learn to be command keepers by loving others. Not self. Not by following some written law. Which never made anyone righteous
what Jesus did was compress the first 3 commandments to Love only GOD and the last 6 to Love your fellow man, they are held fast by the 4th, Sabbath keeping, which is the seal of GOD for his elect, the law's of GOD are to be integrated into our live's, so that we live the law rather than force it upon ourselves, the Law's are a buffer and a barrier, to safe guard an educate us from sinful transgression's, which they didn't have in the day's of Noah.
 

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You should not talk about others and an open heart. When its obvious yours is closed.

That is the definition of hypocrisy
It's scripture. Not hypocrisy. My,Our, hearts are open.
When we encounter those bent on altering the truth of God in Christ, we're to labor toward correction.
Which has been done and for some time.

However, when the issue isn't a matter of lacking right understanding, but examples a dedicated effort to communicate false doctrine and corrupt truth, we owe it to the truth to recognize that. And oppose its efforts in defense of the kingdom.

Furthermore and lastly, I took the time to review your post history. You may want to remember that exists when thinking to stand against the Saints in defense of one whose Exegetical profile is similar to your own.
 

Dino246

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It's scripture. Not hypocrisy. My,Our, hearts are open.
When we encounter those bent on altering the truth of God in Christ, we're to labor toward correction.
Which has been done and for some time.

However, when the issue isn't a matter of lacking right understanding, but examples a dedicated effort to communicate false doctrine and corrupt truth, we owe it to the truth to recognize that. And oppose its efforts in defense of the kingdom.

Furthermore and lastly, I took the time to review your post history. You may want to remember that exists when thinking to stand against the Saints in defense of one whose Exegetical profile is similar to your own.
You haven't yet presented a coherent argument for your position, but only blather and wind about others being wrong.
 

Blik

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is issue heThre in this thread is

Some reject the fact that true faith will produce true works.

They want to preach if you stop doing works you stop being a child of God. And even if you were adopted by him and made his son, You can be cast out and still go to hell if you do not work.

Its called legalism.
It is true that works do not produce salvation, but to be saved we must accept Christ in our hearts, we must have faith in all Christ is and tells us. Without this faith we cannot have salvation. If we have no faith in how Christ tells us to live our lives here on earth, our faith is not complete enough to be counted as faith.
 

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Blik, post: 4652400, member: 249025"]So to you I am incensed and you are alarmed. Oh My. Now you are attempting to keep the law? Then keep the "you" out of your posts and only speak of scripture.

I certainly didn't mean to pull your tail, I wish you could forget whatever it was and back off. I love discussions of scripture and to hear what you have to say about scripture, but the discussion with you becomes blaming "blik". I don't think that is discussing scripture.

you seem to have a short attention span. you are not able to actually reply to what is in a post, but garble it and spit out nonsense

let's take a closer look at what I said and how you responded to the words. my words in green and yours in quotes

especially the golden calf episode. ARE YOU KIDDING? read the OT prophets...


like I said...over and over and over and over and over zzzzzzzzzzzz

who is Jesus to you? is He the lawgiver or is He the spotless Lamb of God who died for our sins? you appear to be very confused on this issue and entrenched in that confusion so that you make up what others are saying

yet, you become incensed when others deny what you keep saying is the abandonment of all morality.

it is alarming that you appear to believe you can add to what Jesus accomplished on the cross on our behalf. it seems you wish to interject when Jesus says 'IT IS FINISHED'

you continually interrupt and say 'wait a minute Jesus...that sounds too easy....how about my attempts to keep the law?'

your respond with

it seems you wish to create the impression that I am saying what YOU actually are saying. if you do not like the way people respond when you make things up, then try not making things up. you do not use scripture because if you did you would not continually create threads about law keeping for those who are believers.

very classy. I know I don't have a tail...do you?

do you? then why do you twist what the scriptures state? the discussion when you create this type of thread, will always come back to you because your opinions do not equal scripture
And now we know that you stand in judgment of Blik, saving the Lord from judging this Blik as you have completed it. Does your Christianity that you live an act of taking over God's role as judge or as a child of the Lord?
 
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This issue here in this thread is

Some reject the fact that true faith will produce true works.

They want to preach if you stop doing works you stop being a child of God. And even if you were adopted by him and made his son, You can be cast out and still go to hell if you do not work.

Its called legalism.
our work's don't only involve going to church, reading the Bible, prayer or doing good to other's, the hardest work's are the work's on the self, which I might add, is where the Law's come to fruition in us,... we must continually protect ourselves from the covet's of the world, endure ridicule & resentment, usually from family and friend's, we must endeavour to remain selfless while assisting others, seeking no rewards or recognition.... yes, if your faith wavers and fades, you risk being cast out, for the work's that follow our walk with Christ are the work's that make us children of GOD , thankfully our father in heaven has made allowances, by Grace, for the moments we fall.
 

Dino246

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It is true that works do not produce salvation, but to be saved we must accept Christ in our hearts, we must have faith in all Christ is and tells us. Without this faith we cannot have salvation. If we have no faith in how Christ tells us to live our lives here on earth, our faith is not complete enough to be counted as faith.
Respectfully, that is not correct. Salvation is by faith in Jesus Christ and His finished work, not in "how Christ tells us to live our lives here on earth". Remember: faith is the assurance of things not seen, according to Hebrews 11:1.
 

Blik

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I read posts stating how God took back all God gave in the old covenant, but no one saying that it was our holy God who wrote that covenant. It was holy as all things of God is holy. God says it is obsolete, and obsolete does not mean that God decided it wasn't of Him, it wasn't holy. God cancelled what of it was of no use any longer, the new covenant of giving the law in our hearts replaced the law in stone. The law is holy, we still have the law, it is given to us in a different way. It means that a new covenant is better, God says so. It says that the new covenant makes things of the old useless to us. It does not condemn God for doing something ungodly.
 

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Your Exegesis is demonstrated as errant yet again.

In scripture the covenant is an agreement between God and humanity. It is not the same as the Law. Because God's legislation, law, is his instruction regarding our right conduct. That is different than legislation, making laws.

The new agreement between God and humanity, the new covenant, reflects the changes in terms that make for a new agreement, covenant. It does not change God's legislation, law.

This is why Jesus, who was God, God being the Holy Spirit, said he did not come to abolish the (his) law.

He did come to make a new agreement with humanity.


because we are not Christ [T r u t h] it can be difficult to hear the truth [about many matters.... in various ways]. the more like T r u t h we become or truly have wanted to very much in the past or present...... the more God is able to reveal to us. "as a man thinketh, so he is"


"but grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ".
 
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SophieT

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And now we know that you stand in judgment of Blik, saving the Lord from judging this Blik as you have completed it. Does your Christianity that you live an act of taking over God's role as judge or as a child of the Lord?

stop playing the victim

you are no victim

you are rather an instigator of threads that create division and promote your opinions on the law and salvation

you might rather ask this question:

Does your Christianity that you live an act of taking over God's role as judge or as a child of the Lord?

of yourself. here again is part of your accusatory op, since you keep trying to change the narrative when someone points out your deflection


Many posters on this site warn against working because we are saved by faith not works. They add that we can never earn our salvation through works, and our works is not looked at by the Lord to achieve righteousness, that is only given to us as a gift. They feel these things mean we must be careful of our works.
you are accusing posters on this site. plain and simple. and you have done this in thread after thread and no doubt you will continue

so again, you are no victim but are deflecting because again, it is pointed out that you are the one judging
 
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SophieT

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I read posts stating how God took back all God gave in the old covenant, but no one saying that it was our holy God who wrote that covenant. It was holy as all things of God is holy. God says it is obsolete, and obsolete does not mean that God decided it wasn't of Him, it wasn't holy. God cancelled what of it was of no use any longer, the new covenant of giving the law in our hearts replaced the law in stone. The law is holy, we still have the law, it is given to us in a different way. It means that a new covenant is better, God says so. It says that the new covenant makes things of the old useless to us. It does not condemn God for doing something ungodly.
what is it God took back? the law is still in effect over those who reject Christ but it is no longer in effect over those who are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb...Jesus Himself

God is holy indeed, but continuing to post as though you alone are also holy, is something you need to stop

if you believe the law is still binding on you, your problem is with God Himself and not one person in this forum
 
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SophieT

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This is why Jesus, who was God, God being the Holy Spirit, said he did not come to abolish the (his) law.

He did come to make a new agreement with humanity.
are you Catholic by any chance? you seem very concerned about laws and such

17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

you forgot that Jesus came to FULFILL the law...all of it

in this manner, He did what mankind cannot do. He was perfect in all His ways and therefore never broke the law...something no human can ever attest to

about righteousness: Jesus is speaking to the religious leaders of His day. they believed themselves to be righteous because of their adherence to the law...an adherence so extreme they invented new laws which Jesus condemned

salvation is not an agreement. it is a transition from death to life

I'm not getting into it with you. I simply wanted to clarify what scripture actually states.

again, salvation is not some kind of 'agreement' the law, for believers, has been fulfilled. that, is in the Bible. period

I will refrain from responding to the usual accusations you like to hurl at people who try to show you where you went off the rails