You think I am justified by my works. As I have stated before you are lying about what I have said. I have said I am justified by the cross alone, but I walk in righteousness.
You talk of a bar as if you know it. All I have heared is about your impossible undefined standards. To support your theology you make man like the gnostics impossibly evil. Now to call me humanist because I believe there is good in people is a sad condemnation of people state. The gospels good news is though man is fallen, lost and alone they can walk with God in fellowship, in purity, in righteousness.
Jesus was saying the aim of the pharisees was good, only their execution was wrong. They were cold inside, without love, dead, with seared consciences. Now what I hear from your camp is failure, and lostness.
Now if the apostles are saying you can walk, then you can walk. It is they who are our authority. The only reason you reinterpret the verses because of your own failure. But that is the dilemma. Do you give up or press on in faith?
Listen to Jesus
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Matt 11:29-30
Jesus is not asking you to take on the impossible, just to walk faithfully. Pride comes before a fall, and I have seen many proud men fall. It is simply one step at a time, and having faith.
Emotional lies within. Our emotions tell us what is impossible, and where not to go. They warn us of great harm and the impossible conflict if we trust God. So many times, I have been hurt, and my emotions tell me revenge. Then I bow at the cross, the Lord melts my heart, love returns and I forgive as I have been forgiven. I get up and move on.
Emotions do not define our future faith does, by walking with Jesus our emotions and responses change. So few times do I hear this testified to, yet this is the walk.
I call to those who have ears to listen to Jesus and the gospel.
Take up your mat and walk, you have been healed.
Failure does not define your future but victory in Jesus can if you believe and walk.