Originally posted by elf3
So Paul saying "there a re none righteous no not one" was actually said first by David and the author of Eccl. Paul was just repeating what had already been said. So Paul was just preaching OT. So ask why those authors wrote that not Paul.
Because the NT interprets the OT in a clearer way...or it should, but Christianity has misinterpreted Pauls "faith vs. works" teachings.
All Paul meant was that we are all sinners in need of salvation, which comes from God only.
That's Why Jesus came preaching repentance to us because repentance is possible, not impossible as heretics teach:
"And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee:
go, and sin no more." Jn.8:11
This is why God sent Jonah Ninevah. Jesus said
they repented at Jonahs preaching. The only sacrifice those people offered was repentance.
As for Paul quoting David? When David was confronted by Gods man Nathan, it produced a broken heart, which is all God is looking for:
"For
thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give
it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God
are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." Ps.51:16-17
John the Baptist died for his faith in God. He was sent here to turn people toward God:
"And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias,
to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord." Lk.1:17
This was the mission of all Gods prophets. It was the Son of Gods mission too:
"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by
his Son..." He.1:1-2
Jesus told a parable about this, teaching us what Gods purpose for sending Him was:
"But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying,
They will reverence my son." Mt.21:37G
God sent His Son to be burdened with our sinful condition. Jesus was burdened (or bore) our sins His entire ministry, ending with the cross.:
"And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him
for a sin offering." Le.16:19
(This One had no sin.)
"But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be
presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him,
and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness." Le.16:20
(This One who was burdened with the peoples sins
was not to be killed, but to go into the world.)
Anyway elf, I think I'm pretty much done here. Crass comments are causing me to be crass...and I'd rather cut my grass!!!