from your source (emphases theirs):
"Does this mean that Paul discards the Law of God? No, absolutely not. “God forbid!” The law is designed to kill us so that it produces an inward desire to live to God instead of for our self. It is through the law that we realize that we are sinners. This is what it is supposed to do, and for that, it is good.
Romans 7:11-12 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
Paul then teaches that because the law kills him by exposing his sin that the desire to keep the Law of God and desire to hate the law of sin is the natural result in our faith:
Romans 7:13-25 “Has then what is good (
Law of God) become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good (
Law of God), so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what Ihate,thatI do.
If,then,IdowhatIwillnottodo,Iagreewiththelawthatitisgood. Butnow,itis no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I willtodo,Idonotdo;buttheevilIwillnottodo,thatIpractice.
NowifIdowhatIwillnottodo,itisno longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God— through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.”
With this, we realize that Paul is certainly not teaching against the Law of God in Galatians 2:19, but describing the correct process that the Law of God is to serve, a process that has been perverted and twisted by the Circumcision Party.
Galatians 2:19 "For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God (serve
the Law of God).
Paul explains the Law of God in this way for a very important reason. The Circumcision Party reads God’s law and simply does God’s law to boast outwardly. Without faith God simply does not recognize such works as obedience, but instead men’s faulty religious systems under the guise of God’s ways.
Paul’s point is to prove that God’s law is designed to convict us by defining and exposing our sin.
At that time it is to force us to realize that we are sinners,
thus it can not be a means to salvation. God’s law is to point us to the means to salvation (Christ).
We then put on the mind of Christ (Romans 7:25; 1 Corinthians 2:16) in our faith, which is
serving the Law of God because of our salvation, not for it.
Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Paul concludes that practicing God’s law for salvation nullifies the grace afforded to us through faith. Righteousness unto salvation is through Christ alone."
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from the same page (earlier):
"Once we are circumcised of the heart, then and only then are we.....to be circumcised in the flesh."
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Galatians 5
Christ Has Set Us Free
1For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
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Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 3I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. 4You are severed from Christ, you who would be justifieda by the law; you have fallen away from grace. 5For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. 6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
7You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8This persuasion is
not from him who calls you. 9A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 10I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.
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But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed. 12I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!
who should i believe, WomanLovesTX?
Paul said:
"Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace."
"I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine, and
the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is"
does that concern you at all?