Your very first line, you twist. Making the word by, void. So that alone discounted your whole post to me and I read no further.
Do you realize that Paul and James had a dispute?
And Paul came to a realization that he was only going to preach Christ and Him crucified. Not by our faith, we are saved....we are saved by His blood sacrifice. He died for all the world. But, faith in the message is what will give us the benefit of the Cross.
So preach reconciliation and let the Holy Ghost do the judging of the heart. And the work of our salvation daily.
What has happened to the simplicity of the gospel of Jesus Christ?
That which Dcon...preaches.
AND SO DID PETER and others argue with Paul.
Titus 1:10 (NCV)
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10 [/SUP] There are many people who refuse to cooperate, who talk about worthless things and lead others into the wrong way—mainly those who say all who are not Jews must be circumcised.
Acts 15:1 (ESV)
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1 [/SUP] But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
Acts 15:24 (NKJV)
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24 [/SUP] Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, "
You must be circumcised and keep the law"--to whom we gave no
such commandment--
Galatians 2:11-21 (NCV)
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When Peter came to Antioch, I challenged him to his face, because he was wrong.
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12 [/SUP] Peter ate with the non-Jewish people until some Jewish people sent from James came to Antioch. When they arrived, Peter stopped eating with those who weren’t Jewish, and he separated himself from them. He was afraid of the Jews.
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13 [/SUP] So Peter was a hypocrite, as were the other Jewish believers who joined with him. Even Barnabas was influenced by what these Jewish believers did.
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14 [/SUP] When I saw they were not following the truth of the Good News, I spoke to Peter in front of them all. I said, “Peter, you are a Jew, but you are not living like a Jew. You are living like those who are not Jewish. So why do you now try to force those who are not Jewish to live like Jews?“
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15 [/SUP] We were not born as non-Jewish “sinners,“ but as Jews.
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16 [/SUP] Yet we know that a person is made right with God not by following the law, but by trusting in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus, that we might be made right with God because we trusted in Christ. It is not because we followed the law, because no one can be made right with God by following the law.
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17 [/SUP] We Jews came to Christ, trying to be made right with God, and it became clear that we are sinners, too. Does this mean that Christ encourages sin? No!
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18 [/SUP] But I would really be wrong to begin teaching again those things that I gave up.
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19 [/SUP] It was the law that put me to death, and I died to the law so that I can now live for God.
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20 [/SUP] I was put to death on the cross with Christ, and I do not live anymore—it is Christ who lives in me. I still live in my body, but I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself to save me.
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21 [/SUP] By saying these things I am not going against God’s grace. Just the opposite, if the law could make us right with God, then Christ’s death would be useless.