Keeping the law or not, we are still justified by faith alone. I cannot keep the law perfectly and even if it could, it would not save me.
This is where Evangelicals and I differ. I don’t keep the law because it saves me, but they keep accusing me of that.
I think that the Evangelical position lumps what is eternal and unchanging with what was meant to be temporary and circumstantial as one.
Christ Himself said that the Ten Commandments are equally valid, so if an Evangelical equates keeping the Ten Commandments as somehow nullifyinh the death of Christ, it means that the Evangelical position is such that one must break them, in order to avoid keeping them.
Which means, lying and murdering and breaking the other eight are mandatory under the Evangelical code of xconduxt.
Either we keep them or we break them. There is no middle ground on this.
“Either we keep them or we break them. There is no middle ground on this.”
I seem to recall a law that required disrespectful children to be stoned to death. Have you ever been disrespectful to your parents? Or do you have children that have been disrespectful to you? Does your church enforce that law? When a wife of one of your members has committed adultery, do you carry out the punishment according to the Law of Moses? Has your eye ever offended you? Have you plucked it out? Have you ever intensely disliked some one? You have committed murder in your heart. God pays no mind to outward appearances. He sees the heart. We all stand guilty before him. And we can only be made righteous by faith in the finished work of the Cross of Jesus Christ His beloved Son. Anything else?... filthy rags. Plain and simple.