The Law

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.

Blik

Senior Member
Dec 6, 2016
7,312
2,424
113
It seem Jesus teach to inherit eternal life one must love God as much as he can and love fellow men
I think you have it backwards for we don't earn salvation by loving God and fellow men, Salvation comes from faith in all the Lord tells us. Loving God and our fellow men follows salvation that insures our eternal life.
 

Jackson123

Senior Member
Feb 6, 2014
11,769
1,370
113
Are you perfect at this? Is anyone?
I am not perfect
But from Luke 10 Jesus answer the question how to inherit eternal life by loving God as much as we can.

I don't know is that mean perfect or not, do as much as we can.
 

Jackson123

Senior Member
Feb 6, 2014
11,769
1,370
113
I think you have it backwards for we don't earn salvation by loving God and fellow men, Salvation comes from faith in all the Lord tells us. Loving God and our fellow men follows salvation that insures our eternal life.
Yes you are correct, another part of the Bible say salvation come from faith and faith come from hearing, but in this part (luke10) eternal life or salvation from love God and fellow man.

Is that mean Jesus inconsistent?

No,

I believe it mean faith mean trust to the point love

Devil believe there is God but don't love God
 

crossnote

Senior Member
Nov 24, 2012
30,707
3,650
113
Luke 10
25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’[c]; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[d]”
28 “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”

It seem Jesus teach to inherit eternal life one must love God as much as he can and love fellow men
You need to read the fuller story in Luke 18…

Luke 18:18-19,21,24-27 KJV
[18] And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? [19] And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God. [21] And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up. [24] And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! [25] For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. [26] And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved? [27] And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.

Essentially the same question but Jesus gives the reason why salvation is impossible through the law…
1. Only God is good.
2. Salvation is impossible with man but only possible with God.
 

Dino246

Senior Member
Jun 30, 2015
24,738
13,406
113
A judeaizer is one who uses the rites given to the Jews to help them know the true law as fulfilling the spirit of the law.
Instead of inventing a definition for the term that conveniently elevates you, how about you accept the standard definition? Here it is:

"'Judaizers' refers to Jewish Christians who sought to induce Gentiles to observe Jewish religious custom"
(source: https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/bakers-evangelical-dictionary/judaizers.html)

In a general sense today, the term means those who seek to impose old covenant laws on gentile Christians. It always carries a negative connotation, unlike your made-up version above.
 
E

eternally-gratefull

Guest
I am not perfect
But from Luke 10 Jesus answer the question how to inherit eternal life by loving God as much as we can.

I don't know is that mean perfect or not, do as much as we can.
if your not perfect.

Then you are cursed. And you can not fulfill luke 10. you already failed

Hence you need CHRIST to SAVE YOU
 

Jackson123

Senior Member
Feb 6, 2014
11,769
1,370
113
Essentially the same question but Jesus gives the reason why salvation is impossible through the law…
Impossible for a man or law?

There are 2 different statement

Impossible for a man without grace yes.
Impossible with the law?

What is the definition of law?
Quote

the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
"they were taken to court for breaking the law"

End quote

Law is rule
Impossible for a man to save by OT law

Is that mean impossible by NT law?

For example NT law

John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

This is Jesus law
Is that impossible?
 

crossnote

Senior Member
Nov 24, 2012
30,707
3,650
113
Impossible for a man or law?

There are 2 different statement

Impossible for a man without grace yes.
Impossible with the law?

What is the definition of law?
Quote

the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
"they were taken to court for breaking the law"

End quote

Law is rule
Impossible for a man to save by OT law

Is that mean impossible by NT law?

For example NT law

John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

This is Jesus law
Is that impossible?
Incoherent. Try again.
 

Jackson123

Senior Member
Feb 6, 2014
11,769
1,370
113
if your not perfect.

Then you are cursed. And you can not fulfill luke 10. you already failed

Hence you need CHRIST to SAVE YOU
Is there a verse that say I am must be perfect to be save?

Yes Jesus say be perfect but is He say for salvation?

Seem to me Jesus want me to make effort as much as I can to love God and fellow man to be save ( Luke 10)
And He will help me to do it if I am abide in Him ( john 15)

5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

Apart from me(Jesus) I can do nothing (can not ber fruits of love)
But He promise, if I remain in Him, I will bear fruits, it may not produce because I am not producer. Jesus is and I only bear it, that enough for salvation.

If you not bear fruit et all you will be burn or hell or not save

6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7


Verse 6 say, no fruits /love( another part of the Bible say fruits of Holy Spirit is love) will be burn on mire/hell
 

Jackson123

Senior Member
Feb 6, 2014
11,769
1,370
113
How can I explain what I can't understand in the first place?
Try rephrasing your post.
You say salvation is impossible by doing law, am I correct?

I think you need to say what kind of law.

US law, OT law or Jesus Law.

This is the definition of law

Quote from I fort dictionary
the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
"they were taken to court for breaking the law"

End quote

By that definition, john 3:16 is a law, by jesus

I not qualified to make a law, because I am not congressman

Jesus more than qualified because He is God

So we are save by doing Jesus law.
 

crossnote

Senior Member
Nov 24, 2012
30,707
3,650
113
You say salvation is impossible by doing law, am I correct?

I think you need to say what kind of law.

US law, OT law or Jesus Law.

This is the definition of law

Quote from I fort dictionary
the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
"they were taken to court for breaking the law"

End quote

By that definition, john 3:16 is a law, by jesus

I not qualified to make a law, because I am not congressman

Jesus more than qualified because He is God

So we are save by doing Jesus law.
Any law will not save.

What saves is the Person of Jesus Christ, God's Son who perfectly kept the law for us and offerred His life as an unblemished sacrifice to God for our sins.

The law is powerless to save.
 

Blik

Senior Member
Dec 6, 2016
7,312
2,424
113
Instead of inventing a definition for the term that conveniently elevates you, how about you accept the standard definition? Here it is:

"'Judaizers' refers to Jewish Christians who sought to induce Gentiles to observe Jewish religious custom"
(source: https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/bakers-evangelical-dictionary/judaizers.html)

In a general sense today, the term means those who seek to impose old covenant laws on gentile Christians. It always carries a negative connotation, unlike your made-up version above.
I don't think we need to look to who are parents were to define the word Judaizer.
 

Blik

Senior Member
Dec 6, 2016
7,312
2,424
113
Any law will not save.

What saves is the Person of Jesus Christ, God's Son who perfectly kept the law for us and offerred His life as an unblemished sacrifice to God for our sins.

The law is powerless to save.
Scripture seems to tell us not to relate law keeping and salvation together, yet all these posts seem to do that. According to scripture they only relate because a saved person follows Christ in all things.

These posts seem to ignor Matt 16:27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.

It is the law that teaches us about the works that the Lord rewards us for.
 

crossnote

Senior Member
Nov 24, 2012
30,707
3,650
113
Scripture seems to tell us not to relate law keeping and salvation together, yet all these posts seem to do that. According to scripture they only relate because a saved person follows Christ in all things.

These posts seem to ignor Matt 16:27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.

It is the law that teaches us about the works that the Lord rewards us for.
Dearie, you seem to ignore Romans 1-4 and Galatians 1-4; 8 chapters on relating law keeping and our justification and how the two don't mix when it comes to salvation.
You ought to try studying them sometime.
 

Dino246

Senior Member
Jun 30, 2015
24,738
13,406
113
I don't think we need to look to who are parents were to define the word Judaizer.
Huh? That doesn't even remotely relate to what I wrote.
 

crossnote

Senior Member
Nov 24, 2012
30,707
3,650
113
It is the law that teaches us about the works that the Lord rewards us for.
Here is one to try and see how it fits into your 'law keeping' theology...

Galatians 3:1-3 (KJV) O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?