THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ETERNAL LIFE ACCORDING TO JESUS

[Soyeong]

No. Being a doer of the law, because it is the law, doesn't, and can't, save, but will only bring about God's wrath. Christ saves us solely by saving us and with nothing beyond that either required or permitted, which makes Christ alone the Savior, period. The law (as you understand the law), isn't the law that is in view for salvation. The law in view for salvation is the law of the Spirit of life in Christ, not the law of Moses, which law was done away with in Christ as we have been so informed in Hebrews.

[2Co 1:19-22 KJV]
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, [even] by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
20 For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, [is] God;
22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

[Rom 8:2 KJV] 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

In Romans 7:25-8:2, Paul said that he served the Law of God with his mind in contrast with saying that he served the law of sin with his flesh and he said that the Law of the Spirit has freed us from the law of sin and death, so the law of sin and death is not the Law of God whereas the Law of Moses is the Law of God (Deuteronomy 5:31-33). All of God's righteous laws are eternal (Psalm 119:160).

Our salvation from sin would be incomplete if we someone were only saved from the penalty of their sin while they continued to be directed at being doers of sin, so there is an aspect of our gift of salvation that we are experiencing in the present by repenting and redirecting our lives towards being doers of the Law of God. We can't earn our salvation even as the result of having perfect obedience to the Law of God because it was never given as a way of earning our salvation in the first place, but rather it was given in order to teach us how to experience God's gift of salvation. The content of a gift can be the experience of doing something, such as giving someone the opportunity to experience driving a Ferrari, where the gift intrinsically requires them to do the work of driving it in order to have the experience of driving it, but where doing that work contributes nothing towards earning our salvation. In Titus 2:11-13, the content of our gift of salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so doing those works in obedience to the Law of God has nothing to do with trying to become saved as the result, but rather we are intrinsically required to be a doer of those works because God graciously teaching us to experience being a doer of them is part of the content of His gift of salvation.

 

[rogerg]

In Romans 7:25-8:2, Paul said that he served the Law of God with his mind in contrast with saying that he served the law of sin with his flesh and he said that the Law of the Spirit has freed us from the law of sin and death, so the law of sin and death is not the Law of God whereas the Law of Moses is the Law of God (Deuteronomy 5:31-33). All of God's righteous laws are eternal (Psalm 119:160).

No. The law of God became the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. The law of Moses was disannulled in Christ.

[Heb 7:17-19 KJV]
17 For he testifieth, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did]; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

 

[Soyeong]

[Rom 6:14-18 KJV]
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

In Romans 7-8:2, Paul said that the Law of God is good, that he wanted to do good, that he delighted in obeying it, and that he served it with his mind in contrast with the law of sin, which was working within his members to cause him not to do the good that he wanted, which was waging war against the law of his mind, which he served with his flesh, which held him captive, and which the Law of the Spirit has free us from. In Romans 8:3-7, Paul said that Jesus set us free from the law of sin so that we might be free to meet the righteous requirement of the Law of God and he contrasted those who walk in the Spirit with those who have minds set on the flesh who are enemies of God who refuse to submit to the Law of God. So the Law of God is the good that Paul wanted to do and the law of sin was what was leading him in the opposite direction by causing him not to do the good that he wanted to do.

In Romans 6:14, Paul described the law that we are no under as being a law where sin had dominion over us, which is clearly not describing a law that is the good that Paul wanted to do, but rather that is describing a law that was causing him not to do the good that he wanted to do, which is the law of sin. In Romans 6:15, Paul said that being under grace does not mean that we are permitted to sin, and in Romans 7:7, the Law of God is not sinful but how we know what sin is, so we are still under it. In Romans 6:16, Paul contrasted these two directions where we are slaves to the one that we obey, either the law of sin, which leads to death, or obedience to the Law of God, which leads to righteousness. In Romans 6:17-23, we are no longer to preset ourselves as slaves to impurity, lawlessness, and sin, but are now to present ourselves as slaves to God and to righteousness leading to sanctification, and the goal of sanctification is eternal life in Christ, which is the gift of God, so being a doer of the Law of God is His gift of eternal life. We need to die to the law of sin in order to be free to obey the Law of God, not the other way around.

 

[posthuman]

One of the clearest moments is when the rich young ruler came with a sincere question. The Scripture says, “And behold, one came to him and said, Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him… if thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments” (Matthew 19:16–19).

this is probably the worst, single most twisted citation possible you could choose to describe what is the basis of salvation in Christ.


He said this to a self righteous pharisee in love with his physical wealth, who did not believe he had any sin and who did not believe Jesus is the Christ.


so, yeah, if you are worldly, blind and unbelieving, if you deny the deity of Christ and all your trust is only in your own flesh, then yes, obviously your only hope is in the Law of condemnation and death.


... but that isn't Christianity.

 

[rogerg]

In Romans 7-8:2, Paul said that the Law of God is good, that he wanted to do good, that he delighted in obeying it, and that he served it with his mind in contrast with the law of sin, which was working within his members to cause him not to do the good that he wanted, which was waging war against the law of his mind, which he served with his flesh, which held him captive, and which the Law of the Spirit has free us from. In Romans 8:3-7, Paul said that Jesus set us free from the law of sin so that we might be free to meet the righteous requirement of the Law of God and he contrasted those who walk in the Spirit with those who have minds set on the flesh who are enemies of God who refuse to submit to the Law of God. So the Law of God is the good that Paul wanted to do and the law of sin was what was leading him in the opposite direction by causing him not to do the good that he wanted to do.

In Romans 6:14, Paul described the law that we are no under as being a law where sin had dominion over us, which is clearly not describing a law that is the good that Paul wanted to do, but rather that is describing a law that was causing him not to do the good that he wanted to do, which is the law of sin. In Romans 6:15, Paul said that being under grace does not mean that we are permitted to sin, and in Romans 7:7, the Law of God is not sinful but how we know what sin is, so we are still under it. In Romans 6:16, Paul contrasted these two directions where we are slaves to the one that we obey, either the law of sin, which leads to death, or obedience to the Law of God, which leads to righteousness. In Romans 6:17-23, we are no longer to preset ourselves as slaves to impurity, lawlessness, and sin, but are now to present ourselves as slaves to God and to righteousness leading to sanctification, and the goal of sanctification is eternal life in Christ, which is the gift of God, so being a doer of the Law of God is His gift of eternal life. We need to die to the law of sin in order to be free to obey the Law of God, not the other way around.

Look, I am not going to argue this with you. Read the verses I posted which you said that you agree with. Nowhere in them do they state being saved by the keeping of law - they all talk about salvation solely by Christ as Savior - you obviously don't understand them. Read them again. Romans 8:3-7 does not say what you stated - they say the exact opposite of that. The law cannot save anyone.
Okay. I'm done.

 

[Soyeong]

Look, I am not going to argue this with you. Read the verses I posted which you said that you agree with. Nowhere in them do they state being saved by the keeping of law - they all talk about salvation solely by Christ as Savior - you obviously don't understand them. Read them again. Romans 8:3-7 does not say what you stated - they say the exact opposite of that. The law cannot save anyone.
Okay. I'm done.

I have stated that we can't earn our salvation even as the result of having perfect obedience to the Law of God because it was never given as a way of earning our salvation in the first place, so that has always been a fundamental misunderstanding of the goal of the law.

 

[rogerg]

I have stated that we can't earn our salvation even as the result of having perfect obedience to the Law of God because it was never given as a way of earning our salvation in the first place, so that has always been a fundamental misunderstanding of the goal of the law.

And the goal of law is, what?

 

[Soyeong]

And the goal of law is, what?

The Hebrew word “yada” refers to intimate relationships/knowledge gained by experience, such as with Genesis 4:1 where Adam knew (yada) Eve, she conceived, and gave birth to Cain. God’s way is the way to know (yada) Him and Jesus by experiencing being in His likeness through embodying His character traits, which is the narrow way to eternal life (John 17:3). For example, in Genesis 18:19, God knew (yada) Abraham that he would teach his children and those of His household to walk in His way by being doers of righteousness and justice that the Lord might bring to him all that He has promised. In Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to walk in His way that he and Israel might know (yada) Him, and in Matthew 7:23, Jesus said that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so the goal of the law is to graciously teach us how to have an intimate relationship with God and Jesus by walking in His way, which is His gift of eternal life.

 

[vassal]

this is probably the worst, single most twisted citation possible you could choose to describe what is the basis of salvation in Christ.


He said this to a self righteous pharisee in love with his physical wealth, who did not believe he had any sin and who did not believe Jesus is the Christ.


so, yeah, if you are worldly, blind and unbelieving, if you deny the deity of Christ and all your trust is only in your own flesh, then yes, obviously your only hope is in the Law of condemnation and death.


... but that isn't Christianity.

With respect, several things in your reply are simply not supported by the text itself — so let us go back to what Scripture actually says rather than what we assume about this man.

First, he was not a Pharisee. Scripture identifies him specifically as a rich young ruler (Luke 18:18) — not a Pharisee, not a scribe, not a religious official coming to trap Jesus. Matthew describes him as someone who ran to Jesus and knelt before Him (Mark 10:17) — that is not the posture of a self-righteous antagonist. That is the posture of someone genuinely seeking.

Second, Jesus did not rebuke his sincerity. He did not say you are blind and unbelieving. Scripture says something far more tender:

Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him. (Mark 10:21)

Jesus looked at this man and loved him. That is not how Jesus responded to self-righteous Pharisees. Compare His response here to His response to the Pharisees in Matthew 23 and the difference is unmistakable.

Third — and most importantly — Jesus answered his question directly and without correction:

If thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments. (Matthew 19:17)​

Jesus did not say — your question is wrong, your premise is twisted, your only hope is grace alone. He answered the question exactly as asked. Keep the commandments. And when the young man asked which ones Jesus listed them — directly from the Ten Commandments (Matthew 19:18-19).

The problem was not the commandments. The problem was revealed when Jesus asked him to surrender his wealth — and he could not. His idol was exposed. But Jesus never retracted the commandments as the path of life. He built upon them.

This exchange does not contradict grace — it completes the picture. The commandments show us the standard. Our inability to fully keep them drives us to Christ. And Christ — who kept them perfectly — calls us to follow Him in walking them out:

If you love Me, keep My commandments. (John 14:15)​

That is not the law of condemnation. That is the word of the One who loved that young ruler and loves us still.

 

[rogerg]

God’s way is the way to know (yada) Him and Jesus by experiencing being in His likeness through embodying His character traits, which is the narrow way to eternal life (John 17:3).

No. Jesus is the Savior which means that He, by Himself, successfully achieved everything necessary to save those that He was sent to save, and that is what makes salvation by grace. Those He saves, He saves FROM the law not to plunge them into and under the law. Salvation begins with and ends with Him - nothing beyond that is either necessary or permitted. Jesus disannulled the law of Moses. There is nothing further to know but that Jesus is the Savior.

[Heb 7:12 KJV] 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

[Rom 3:19-20 KJV]
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.

[1Co 15:56-57 KJV]
56 The sting of death [is] sin; and the strength of sin [is] the law.
57 But thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

[2Co 1:20-22 KJV]
20 For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, [is] God;
22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

 

[Soyeong]

No.

You're disagreeing, but you are not showing how anything that I said is wrong.

Jesus is the Savior which means that He, by Himself, successfully achieved everything necessary to save those that He was sent to save, and that is what makes salvation by grace.

Jesus saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so Jesus graciously teaching us to be a doer of it is intrinsically the way that he is giving us his gift of saving us from not being a doer of it. Someone can't be saved from living in sin without turning away from living in sin. It is metaphorically like you are just wanting the box that the gift of salvation came in apart from its contents of being saved from living in sin.

Those He saves, He saves FROM the law not to plunge them into and under the law. Salvation begins with and ends with Him - nothing beyond that is either necessary or permitted.

In Matthew 1:21, it notably does not say that Jesus saves us from the law but that he saves us from sin, which is living in transgression of the law. In Titus 2:14, it does not say that Jesus gave himself to free us form the Law of Moses but in order to free us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so the way to believe in what he accomplished through the cross is by becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to the Law of Moses (Acts 21:20).

Jesus disannulled the law of Moses. There is nothing further to know but that Jesus is the Savior.

Nowhere does the Bible say that, but rather Jesus specifically said that he came not to abolish the Law of Moses (Matthew 5:17). Instructions for how to embody God's character traits can't be abolished without first abolishing God's character traits. For example, God's righteousness is eternal (Psalms 119:142), therefore all of God's righteous laws are also eternal (Psalm 119:160), and the only way to abolish instructions for how to embody God's righteousness would be by first abolishing God's righteousness.

[Heb 7:12 KJV] 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

The fact that God's righteousness and all of His righteous laws are eternal means that this verse could not be referring to a change of the law in regard to its content, such as with it becoming righteous to commit adultery or sinful to do charity, but rather the context is speaking about a change of the priesthood, which would require a change of the law in regard to its administration. A priesthood led by God's Word made flesh does not involve setting aside God's Word.

[Rom 3:19-20 KJV]
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.

If you agree that it is by the Law of God that we have knowledge of what sin is and that we should refrain from doing what God has revealed to be sin, then you should be arguing in favor of obeying it.

[1Co 15:56-57 KJV]
56 The sting of death [is] sin; and the strength of sin [is] the law.
57 But thanks [be] to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

In Romans 7, the Law of God is the good that Paul wanted to do in contrast with the law of sin that was leading him in opposite direction by causing him not to do the good that he wanted to do. A law that is the strength of sin is clearly not referring to the Law of God that is the good that he wanted to do, but rather it is the law of sin that was causing him not to do the good that he wanted to do.

[2Co 1:20-22 KJV]
20 For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, [is] God;
22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

The Law of God is how the children of the Abraham know how to live blessed lives, so the way that we are a blessing to he nations in accordance with the promise is by turning the nations from their wickedness and by teaching them to obey it in accordance with spreading the Gospel. So again it's metaphorically like you are wanting just the box that the blessing came in but not its contents.

 

[rogerg]

You're disagreeing, but you are not showing how anything that I said is wrong.


Jesus saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so Jesus graciously teaching us to be a doer of it is intrinsically the way that he is giving us his gift of saving us from not being a doer of it. Someone can't be saved from living in sin without turning away from living in sin. It is metaphorically like you are just wanting the box that the gift of salvation came in apart from its contents of being saved from living in sin.


In Matthew 1:21, it notably does not say that Jesus saves us from the law but that he saves us from sin, which is living in transgression of the law. In Titus 2:14, it does not say that Jesus gave himself to free us form the Law of Moses but in order to free us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so the way to believe in what he accomplished through the cross is by becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to the Law of Moses (Acts 21:20).


Nowhere does the Bible say that, but rather Jesus specifically said that he came not to abolish the Law of Moses (Matthew 5:17). Instructions for how to embody God's character traits can't be abolished without first abolishing God's character traits. For example, God's righteousness is eternal (Psalms 119:142), therefore all of God's righteous laws are also eternal (Psalm 119:160), and the only way to abolish instructions for how to embody God's righteousness would be by first abolishing God's righteousness.


The fact that God's righteousness and all of His righteous laws are eternal means that this verse could not be referring to a change of the law in regard to its content, such as with it becoming righteous to commit adultery or sinful to do charity, but rather the context is speaking about a change of the priesthood, which would require a change of the law in regard to its administration. A priesthood led by God's Word made flesh does not involve setting aside God's Word.


If you agree that it is by the Law of God that we have knowledge of what sin is and that we should refrain from doing what God has revealed to be sin, then you should be arguing in favor of obeying it.


In Romans 7, the Law of God is the good that Paul wanted to do in contrast with the law of sin that was leading him in opposite direction by causing him not to do the good that he wanted to do. A law that is the strength of sin is clearly not referring to the Law of God that is the good that he wanted to do, but rather it is the law of sin that was causing him not to do the good that he wanted to do.


The Law of God is how the children of the Abraham know how to live blessed lives, so the way that we are a blessing to he nations in accordance with the promise is by turning the nations from their wickedness and by teaching them to obey it in accordance with spreading the Gospel. So again it's metaphorically like you are wanting just the box that the blessing came in but not its contents.

Those who look up to the law are under the law and being under the law are under God's wrath. Those saved have been made free from the law but instead are under Christ.

 

[posthuman]

With respect, several things in your reply are simply not supported by the text itself — so let us go back to what Scripture actually says rather than what we assume about this man.

First, he was not a Pharisee. Scripture identifies him specifically as a rich young ruler (Luke 18:18) — not a Pharisee, not a scribe, not a religious official coming to trap Jesus. Matthew describes him as someone who ran to Jesus and knelt before Him (Mark 10:17) — that is not the posture of a self-righteous antagonist. That is the posture of someone genuinely seeking.

Second, Jesus did not rebuke his sincerity. He did not say you are blind and unbelieving. Scripture says something far more tender:

Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him. (Mark 10:21)

Jesus looked at this man and loved him. That is not how Jesus responded to self-righteous Pharisees. Compare His response here to His response to the Pharisees in Matthew 23 and the difference is unmistakable.

Third — and most importantly — Jesus answered his question directly and without correction:

If thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments. (Matthew 19:17)​

Jesus did not say — your question is wrong, your premise is twisted, your only hope is grace alone. He answered the question exactly as asked. Keep the commandments. And when the young man asked which ones Jesus listed them — directly from the Ten Commandments (Matthew 19:18-19).

The problem was not the commandments. The problem was revealed when Jesus asked him to surrender his wealth — and he could not. His idol was exposed. But Jesus never retracted the commandments as the path of life. He built upon them.

This exchange does not contradict grace — it completes the picture. The commandments show us the standard. Our inability to fully keep them drives us to Christ. And Christ — who kept them perfectly — calls us to follow Him in walking them out:

If you love Me, keep My commandments. (John 14:15)​

That is not the law of condemnation. That is the word of the One who loved that young ruler and loves us still.

what class of Jew was rich, and ruled over the people?

which of us was not His enemy, when He loved us?

to which person who believed in Him did He ever say why do you call me good?

what kind of person says what can I "do" to earn salvation?

 

[Soyeong]

Those who look up to the law are under the law and being under the law are under God's wrath. Those saved have been made free from the law but instead are under Christ.

God is sovereign, so we are all under the His law and are obligated to refrain from doing what He has revealed to be sin. God's wrath is not from those who obey His law but for those who refuse to submit to it. The freedom that we have in Christ is the freedom from sin, not the freedom to sin. It is contradictory to want to be under God's Word made flesh while not wanting to be under God's Word.

 

[rogerg]

God is sovereign, so we are all under the His law and are obligated to refrain from doing what He has revealed to be sin. God's wrath is not from those who obey His law but for those who refuse to submit to it. The freedom that we have in Christ is the freedom from sin, not the freedom to sin. It is contradictory to want to be under God's Word made flesh while not wanting to be under God's Word.

And through Jesus Christ, God's law has become the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. Everyone not under that law is under the wrath of God regardless of anything else.

 

[Soyeong]

And through Jesus Christ, God's law has become the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. Everyone not under that law is under the wrath of God regardless of anything else.

The Spirit has the role of leading us to obey the Mosaic Law (Ezekiel 36:26-26), the Spirit has the role of leading us in truth (John 16:13), the the Mosaic Law is truth (Psalm 119:142). The Spirit has the role of convicting us of sin (John 16:8) and it is by the Mosaic Law that we have knowledge of what sin is (Romans 3:20). In Romans 8:4-7, Paul contrasted those who walk in the Spirit with those who have minds seton the flesh who are enemies of God who refuse to submit to the Mosaic Law. In Galatians 5:16-23, Paul contrasted the desires of the flesh with the desires of the Spirit and everything that he listed as works of the flesh that are against the Spirit are also against the Mosaic Law while all of the fruits of the Spirit are aspects of God's character that the Mosaic Law was given in order to teach us how to embody. In Romans 2:25-29, the way to recognize that a Gentile has a circumcised heart is by observing their obedience to the Mosaic Law and circumcision of the heart is a matter of the Spirit, which is in contrast with Acts 7:51-53 where those who have uncircumcised hearts resist the Spirit and do not obey the Mosaic Law. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact likeness of His character, which he embodied through his works by setting an example for us to follow that can be equivalently be described either as walking in the Spirit or as walking in obedience to the Mosaic Law.

 

[rogerg]

The Spirit has the role of leading us to obey the Mosaic Law (Ezekiel 36:26-26), the Spirit has the role of leading us in truth (John 16:13), the the Mosaic Law is truth (Psalm 119:142). The Spirit has the role of convicting us of sin (John 16:8) and it is by the Mosaic Law that we have knowledge of what sin is (Romans 3:20). In Romans 8:4-7, Paul contrasted those who walk in the Spirit with those who have minds seton the flesh who are enemies of God who refuse to submit to the Mosaic Law. In Galatians 5:16-23, Paul contrasted the desires of the flesh with the desires of the Spirit and everything that he listed as works of the flesh that are against the Spirit are also against the Mosaic Law while all of the fruits of the Spirit are aspects of God's character that the Mosaic Law was given in order to teach us how to embody. In Romans 2:25-29, the way to recognize that a Gentile has a circumcised heart is by observing their obedience to the Mosaic Law and circumcision of the heart is a matter of the Spirit, which is in contrast with Acts 7:51-53 where those who have uncircumcised hearts resist the Spirit and do not obey the Mosaic Law. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact likeness of His character, which he embodied through his works by setting an example for us to follow that can be equivalently be described either as walking in the Spirit or as walking in obedience to the Mosaic Law.

Wong law. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, through Christ, has become the law of God. Everyone not under it is
under the wrath of God, everyone under it will never face the wrath of God, no matter what other laws they make break.
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, and the laws related to it, are the laws of the New Covenant

 

[Soyeong]

Wong law. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, through Christ, has become the law of God. Everyone not under it is
under the wrath of God, everyone under it will never face the wrath of God, no matter what other laws they make break.
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, and the laws related to it, are the laws of the New Covenant

You have no basis for claiming that it is the wrong law. For example, love is one of the fruits of the Spirit and everything in the Mosaic Law is either in regard to how to love God or our neighbor. Jesus spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Mosaic Law by word and by example and the reason why he established the New Covenant was not in order to nullify anything that he spent his ministry teaching or so that we could continue to have the same lawlessness that caused the New Covenant to be needed in the first place, but rather the New Covenant still involves following the Mosaic Law (Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 36:26-27). The New Covenant is still made with the same God with the same character traits and therefore the same eternal and cumulatively valid instructions for how to embody His character traits, which are the fruits of the Spirit.

 

[rogerg]

You have no basis for claiming that it is the wrong law.

The fruit of the Spirit are not laws to be satisfied by the recipient; they the fruits freely given by the Holy Spirit upon becoming born again AS A RESULT OF SALVATION, and therefore, satisfied by God, not man, as are all laws associated to the law of the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

The basis for claiming the wrong law are the following:

[Heb 7:11-12 KJV]
11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need [was there] that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

 

[vassal]

what class of Jew was rich, and ruled over the people?

which of us was not His enemy, when He loved us?

to which person who believed in Him did He ever say why do you call me good?

what kind of person says what can I "do" to earn salvation?

Your questions are reasonable but they do not change what the text actually says. Let us stay with Scripture rather than build assumptions on top of assumptions.

You ask what class of Jew was rich and ruled — but Scripture does not identify him as a Pharisee and we should not add to what is written. A ruler could be a synagogue leader, a civic official, a merchant or a member of the Sanhedrin — we simply do not know beyond what the text tells us.

You ask who calls Jesus good unless they do not believe He is God — but notice Jesus did not say you do not believe in me. He redirected the question toward God:

Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. (Matthew 19:17)

That is an invitation to recognize His deity — not proof of unbelief.

You ask what kind of person asks what they can do to earn salvation — but the young man never used the word earn. He asked sincerely how to have eternal life. And Jesus answered him sincerely:

If thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments. (Matthew 19:17)

Jesus had every opportunity to correct a wrong question. He did not. He answered it. The commandments were His answer. His love for this man was real:

Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him. (Mark 10:21)

That is the text. That is enough.