How can God justify the ungodly and still maintain His integrity to His law?
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How can God justify the ungodly and still maintain His integrity to His law?
Oh this was last Sunday's sermon. Pastor Prince explained this so clearly. Well, here's a test of my memory. Well, I'm sure someone already answered this here but here goes anyway.
Short answer - Jesus Christ.
Long answer - ...
Oh this was last Sunday's sermon. Pastor Prince explained this so clearly. Well, here's a test of my memory. Well, I'm sure someone already answered this here but here goes anyway.
Short answer - Jesus Christ.
Long answer - ...
We are to accept the gospel. We are to trust God's truth as a child trust.
You, onlinebuddy, reject the gospel of Paul. You dismiss it; call it complicated, etc.
As to Paul's authority, read:
Romans 1:1 From Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus and an apostle chosen and called by God to preach his Good News. 2 The Good News was promised long ago by God through his prophets, as written in the Holy Scriptures. 3 It is about his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: as to his humanity, he was born a descendant of David; 4 as to his divine holiness, he was shown with great power to be the Son of God by being raised from death.
Now, please, tell me who died in the following:
Rom 6:6 "We know that our old life died with Christ on the cross"
Rom 7:4 "your old life died, and you became free from the law through the body of Christ"
2 Cor 5:14 "One died for all, therefore all died"
You, onlinebuddy, reject the gospel of Paul. You dismiss it; call it complicated, etc.
As to Paul's authority, read:
Romans 1:1 From Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus and an apostle chosen and called by God to preach his Good News. 2 The Good News was promised long ago by God through his prophets, as written in the Holy Scriptures. 3 It is about his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: as to his humanity, he was born a descendant of David; 4 as to his divine holiness, he was shown with great power to be the Son of God by being raised from death.
Now, please, tell me who died in the following:
Rom 6:6 "We know that our old life died with Christ on the cross"
Rom 7:4 "your old life died, and you became free from the law through the body of Christ"
2 Cor 5:14 "One died for all, therefore all died"
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Gal 2:19 "For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God."
Romans 7:6 "we have been released from the Law...."
How?
"Having died to the law by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit."
The human life we all share with Adam, our corporate fallen life, died in Christ because God's law demanded our death. This is the gospel!
Any other gospel is a hybrid of Romans Catholicism, which is "another gospel".
Romans 7:6 "we have been released from the Law...."
How?
"Having died to the law by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit."
The human life we all share with Adam, our corporate fallen life, died in Christ because God's law demanded our death. This is the gospel!
Any other gospel is a hybrid of Romans Catholicism, which is "another gospel".
God's people, who are in all the Christian denominations, are to preach "the everlasting gospel". It's the one Paul preached by the authority of God the Father and the Son of God, Christ!
Spiritual Babylon, not literal Babylon, at some future time will completely fall from grace. Why? She continues to present "another gospel".
As God's people are in all Christendom, so are those who present "another gospel". They are wolves in sheep's clothing. They glory not "in Christ Jesus", but try to teach "another gospel"!
What does Paul state about those who preach a gospel besides the one he preached with authority?
Gal 1:6 I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; 7 which is really not another; only there are some (wolves in sheep's clothing) who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we (Paul and the Apostles) have preached to you, he is to be accursed! 9 As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!
We need to take this very, very seriously!!!!
Spiritual Babylon, not literal Babylon, at some future time will completely fall from grace. Why? She continues to present "another gospel".
As God's people are in all Christendom, so are those who present "another gospel". They are wolves in sheep's clothing. They glory not "in Christ Jesus", but try to teach "another gospel"!
What does Paul state about those who preach a gospel besides the one he preached with authority?
Gal 1:6 I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; 7 which is really not another; only there are some (wolves in sheep's clothing) who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we (Paul and the Apostles) have preached to you, he is to be accursed! 9 As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!
We need to take this very, very seriously!!!!
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Originally Posted by Roberth
We are to accept the gospel. We are to trust God's truth as a child trust.
You, onlinebuddy, reject the gospel of Paul. You dismiss it; call it complicated, etc.
As to Paul's authority, read:
Romans 1:1 From Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus and an apostlechosen and called by God to preach his Good News. 2 The Good News was promised long ago by God through his prophets, as written in the Holy Scriptures. 3 It is about his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: as to his humanity, he was born a descendant of David; 4 as to his divine holiness, he was shown with great power to be the Son of God by being raised from death.
Now, please, tell me who died in the following:
Rom 6:6 "We know that our old life died with Christ on the cross"
Rom 7:4 "your old life died, and you became free from the law through the body of Christ"
2 Cor 5:14 "One died for all, therefore all died"
...and how would you explain this to a person who has never heard of the law or about Jesus?
We are to accept the gospel. We are to trust God's truth as a child trust.
You, onlinebuddy, reject the gospel of Paul. You dismiss it; call it complicated, etc.
As to Paul's authority, read:
Romans 1:1 From Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus and an apostlechosen and called by God to preach his Good News. 2 The Good News was promised long ago by God through his prophets, as written in the Holy Scriptures. 3 It is about his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: as to his humanity, he was born a descendant of David; 4 as to his divine holiness, he was shown with great power to be the Son of God by being raised from death.
Now, please, tell me who died in the following:
Rom 6:6 "We know that our old life died with Christ on the cross"
Rom 7:4 "your old life died, and you became free from the law through the body of Christ"
2 Cor 5:14 "One died for all, therefore all died"
...and how would you explain this to a person who has never heard of the law or about Jesus?
7 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law (the Jews, the Gentiles were at that time ignorant)—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? 2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. 3 So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. 6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
Dan58 gave you the correct meaning of that Ezek.18:20 passage. You are misinterpreting it.
It means each person is responsible to God for their sins. A son does not inherit his parent's sin, and visa versa.
Jesus Christ is... God, i.e, God The Son, Immanuel (God with us), which is how He could come in the flesh, have no sin, die upon the cross becoming our Passover Lamb of sacrifice, and able to forgive sins, and be The Savior. That is why all... peoples MUST go through Him only, and none other, to be saved, as written.
It means each person is responsible to God for their sins. A son does not inherit his parent's sin, and visa versa.
Jesus Christ is... God, i.e, God The Son, Immanuel (God with us), which is how He could come in the flesh, have no sin, die upon the cross becoming our Passover Lamb of sacrifice, and able to forgive sins, and be The Savior. That is why all... peoples MUST go through Him only, and none other, to be saved, as written.