[Dahlseide]

The Law points out sin. Therefore it is our guide to living a Holy life. To throw out the Law is to insinuate that God is fallible and thus not God. As Christians, Jesus is our Savior and our template.

Then you misunderstand the purpose of the Law as understood by protestants. The Law certainly does point out sin; that is quite an understatement, unless by that you mean the impossibility of keeping the Law which you apparently do not.

Paul referred to himself as the chiefest of sinners; I once stated that I had replaced him; but recently I realized that Paul was correct; correct because he understood the depth of the Law; something that I know I, & I strongly, as strongly as words will allow, recommend that you begin to understand in a much deeper way; the reason being that the Law, as Bunyan put it in Pilgrims Progress, is allegorically speaking, similar to a huge cliff hanging over Christians head & certain to fall on him should he continue on that false path to satisfy the Law; after he had temporarily, and only temporarily, turned from the only road to the Celestial City.

The purpose of the Law is to drive all the saved & the yet-to-be saved pell-mell, screaming save me from the wrath to come, to the only One that ever met or could met the Laws demand; that of course being, as you must know, the Redeemer of His elect.

If you truly believe you are a Christian & yet truly believe you can satisfy the Law, I pity you. However that pity is worth nothing as it is only by grace that you or I can be saved.

You need not claim protestants, who truly are protestants, nullify the Law – as they say in the vernacular of the day that dog don’t hunt .

Nor need you say it began with protestants – that dog doesn’t hunt any better than the first dog.

Do we who hold the impossibility of keeping the Law then sin that grace may abound?.

Same dog.

If you understand scripture in the slightest, or when you do, you will realize the falsity of any thought of satisfying the Laws demand; that everything you believed in that regard amounted to you, or someone for you, placing a veil over the Law to soften it to the point that man, i.e. you or me, could keep it.

Simply put, the Law is our tutor to drive the saved, & yet-to-be saved, to the Redeemer; & yes to His rightness imputed to those whom He has regenerated, or will in the future at a time of His choosing, regenerate.

I have yet to understand your use of template.

The e-names I am including in this reply I have added only, I repeat only, that they might have more proper and/or convincing words than I; all the while realizing that it is not any of us who will change your heart & mind; that depends solely on God.

I understand the harshness of my words; be assured that were this not an eternal life with God versus an eternal life in hell issue I would not e-voice them.

I am no better than you. It was grace & only grace that caused me to be regenerated; then grace that taught my heart to fear the eternal consequence of my inability to meet the just demands of the Law & then it was grace that fear relieved; & it is grace, pure & only grace, that will lead Home. The same be onto you as God wills.

[kerryusama04]

You post seems to be lacking in scriptural basis. Your theology goes back to early Christians who have been coined "gnostics" by theologians. They, too, sought rationale to seperate themselves from those pesky rules put down by Yahweh. No one is saved by the Law, but we are indeed judged by our works. In order to be judged by our works, there must be some standard of which to judge a man.

I understand the harshness of my words; be assured that were this not an eternal life with God versus an eternal life in hell issue I would not e-voice them.

This statement indicates which of us needs to better understand the scriptures. The idea of an "eternal hell" is purely an invention of man.