Posted on 07/22/2013 11:16:24 AM PDT by Jedediah
Correct. Jesus is the only one who can fulfill the law.
If we continue to try to do it in ourselves(which is what the Galatians did and Paul reprimanded them for it) we go back to our doomed state because we are again inviting the curse.
Only by the power of the Holy Spirit can we fulfill the law of love. Because that's Jesus doing it inside of us.
God gives faith. We cannot drum it up.
If you believe it's because He's given that to you.
And if I don’t believe, I still get it, right? You said no conditions.
Psalms 22:31 They shall come, and shall declare His righteousness unto a People that shall be born,
That He hath done this. = It is finished. John 19:30
Psalms 1:1 My GOD, my GOD, why hast thou forsaken me?
GOD did not forsake Christ, Christ was teaching even to us in these days while upon that cross. David wrote this hundreds of years before the Crucifixion.
God gives it all...including faith.
And I never said everyone is part of the covenant...only those to whom God includes by providing his gift...which is faith.
So there's a condition.
btw, faith requires action.
You go ahead and keep earning yours, mine was free.
Matthew 7
21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
John 6
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
It is the things we do when no one is around except who we are not trying to impress.
Verses 21,22 and 23 are obviously referring to people who are teaching every one else.
God sees the true hearts of these people just the same as he sees the hearts of those like the woman caught in adultery.
Jesus makes it plain when talking to the scribes and Pharisees, religious leaders, they were so clean on the out side, they did not smoke or drink and would not say the word if they had a mouthful, but they did not really believe.
In that case, everyone gets to spend eternity with Christ - no conditions. Its a one-sided grant, right?
So then it’s conditional.
“It is finished.” was what Christ said about his life as he died on the Cross.
God the Father can still prnounce events. What is your point here? Are you putting limits on God?
Trying to paint a rosy picture?
Saying that no people go to hell? Saying that there is no hell?
And God sets the boundaries for HIS conditions.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Matthew 6:33
So then its conditional.
If some one had of told me to believe in Jesus and i would be saved, that would have been a condition.
But it did not happen that way, i started reading the Bible to prove my theory that Jesus was just a hippie of his day based on some preaching i had heard, pictures, the Jesus people back in the sixties, etc.
I was determined not to believe but could not help it. so although there is a condition of the heart, what ever the heart is, my belief is unconditional come Heaven or hell.
For any one to say to them selves or to some one else,
( well i think i will start believing in Jesus so that i will be saved is ridicules).
But i will admit you have a point.
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