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| Quote (Dr.GH @ Feb. 13 2009,22:59) | Bugger off you creato-bot.
Your crap reading of scripture has per Romans 2: 23. Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? 24. For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. |
In Romans , especially the first 8 chapters you will find that:
1) All have broken the law. All have sinned. Sin brings death (separation from God). Rom 3:23, Rom 6:23
The scripture you have quoted is addressed to the Jews who thought that keeping was the means of salvation (v17) , but can truly be applied to some in the current day church.
I do not make my boast in the "the law." I do not believe you must keep a bunch of rules. The law is good, but the law kills.
"For I was alive without the law once (Paul is speaking of before he had known the law), but when the commandment came, sin came alive in me, and I died." Romans 7:9
The scripture teaches that the purpose of the law was to define sin. "...for by the law is the knowledge of sin." Rom 3:20 But it had no power to REMOVE the sin nature of man, it was intended by God to show us our need for help in the area of morality.
"For we know the law is spiritual, but I am carnal (subject to fleshly appetites), sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would do, that I do not, but what I hate, that I do. If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good." Rom.7:14,15
This passage goes on to explain how the sin nature works in us in everyday experience. And he talking to Christian Jews in Rome who had been raised to keep the law.
All Christians go through this struggle. This passage is not defeatism. Might as well sin. The next chapter Rom 8 gives the gospel of Christ which is the power which breaks the power of sin.
The power of the sin is the law. The scriptures clearly teach this, and so there is a bondage that comes through sin. The law is the word of God and so the power of sin is ever stronger in us who know the law (the moral law ie. the ten commandments)
Christ died on the cross to break the bondage and the condemnation. But if he did not rise again, then death would have still have reigned in us. This subject is very legal, that is part of the reason we need to ACCEPT what God did by faith, and then begin to learn what it is He did do for us.
This is what it means to "accept Christ." We are accepting, not rejecting what he did do for us, and it is acknowledging our need for it.
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