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NASB | James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole Law but stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of [breaking] all of it. |
Subject: Moral, Ceremonial, and Civil law |
Bible Note: Bill: Please address the point I made, rather than arguing against points I am not making. To put it in the plainest terms possible: 1. I am not, nor was I EVER under the Mosaic Covenant. I am an uncircumcised Gentile (Romans 2:9-16) 2. I am not seeking righteousness of my own from the Law, because that is an impossibility (Philippians 3:9). 3. The righteousness by which I am saved is Christ's imputed to me, not my own. 4. The moral commandments of God, including the Decalogue, are quoted either verbatim or in essence by most of the writers of the New Testament epistles as instructions for BELIEVERS. Was Paul sinning by telling the children of Ephesus to follow the Fifth Commandment (Ephesians 6:1-3)? 5. Therefore, while my salvation was earned for me by Christ, we were saved primarily for God's glory. James 2 and most of 1 John clearly demonstrate that those who are not desiring to obey Christ may not even be saved at all, not because they must work for salvation, but rather because a complete lack of works points to a complete lack of true faith. 5. Therefore, we are not to be slaves to sin, but slaves to righteousness, not to earn our salvation, but because the Bible clearly shows that that is what saved people do (Romans 6:16-20). If I am in error here, please take the passages of Scripture I have cited and explain where I am in error in interpreting them. With all due respect, Bill, you are arguing against positions I do not hold to myself. I am not a legalist. There is no way for me to earn my salvation. However, I am also not an antinomian, who believes that there is no connection between true faith and desiring to obey God's moral commandments, which are all over both Testaments. If you insist that the Ten Commandments are not for today at all, then you have yet to explain why Paul and James and John and Peter tell their addressees to do the things found in them. That's the bottom line. --Joe! |