If we try to imagine not knowing any of Paul's writings, remove them from our memory, what would it truly change in our understanding of scripture?
Would we being following the commandments, the law as Jesus says?
Mat 5:17 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.
Mat 5:18 For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
Mat 5:19 So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
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Rom 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Rom 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Paul said we do not void out the law but we establish the law which means to live up to the law.
The law is spiritual not physical, which is the laws of love, moral laws, which the 2 greatest laws is love God, and love people, which never can pass away.
Which the 10 commandments are laws of love towards God, and people, so we have to live up to those laws, and obey them.
Which is why Jesus told the rich man to obey the laws that have to do with loving people.
Gal 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Gal 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Gal 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Gal 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Gal 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Gal 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Gal 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
A Spirit led life will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh for they have crucified the flesh with the affections, and lusts, which they can abstain from sin.
Which a Spirit led life is not under the law because their sins are forgiven, and they are not sinning, therefore the law cannot touch them for prosecution.
If a person is led of the Spirit and sins they are back under the law until they repent of it not wanting the sin anymore.
2Ti 3:4 lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
2Ti 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2Ti 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Some people have a form of godliness but they deny the Spirit leading them for they want to enjoy sin, and never come to the truth that they have to abstain from sin, so they are under the law thinking they have salvation.
They are lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God which they love sin more than they love Him.
Which these people will like the belief that they were chosen in the beginning, and cannot fall not understanding the Bible, and not realizing that God's kingdom is true love.
They will like to believe they are not under the law despite their sins, and to use it as an excuse to sin enjoying it like the dickens.
Millions of these people going to and fro, walking about, around us, that are like this, which the Bible says from these type of people turn away from them.
Paul advocated keeping the law for the law is spiritual, holy, just, and good.