I will write this one last time.
Deuteronomy 30:11 “For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.
I recognize that you do not believe that the Law is too hard for us to obey, but I want you to acknowledge that Scripture directly says that it is not too hard for us and that if your position is true, then God lied.
There is a big difference between following after the Spirit of the law, and trying to obey the letter of the law. One can be done, the other cannot be done.
I agree, but God's Law was always meant to be obeyed according to the spirit rather than the letter. It was never intended to be outwardly obeyed apart from growing in a relationship with God based on faith and love.
Isaiah stated:
Your covenant with death will be annulled
Your agreement with the grave will not stand
Ch28:18
If Gods laws were so easy to obey, why is it called a covenant of death?
It should be clear from verses 14-17 that it is speaking about a covenant made with death with the realm of the dead that is in opposition to God rather than one made by God.
Paul states:
The letter kills( present tense)
2cor 3:6
In the same chapter Paul the Christian states the law written on stone is the ministry of death and condemnation. Why if it is so easy to obey?
According to Deuteronomy 30:15-20, the Law is a ministry of life and blessing for obedience and a ministry of death and curses for disobedience, so the fact that the Law brings death for disobedience is hardly a good justification to disobey it. However, obeying the law according to the letter is just as bad as living in disobedience to it because both lead to death, which is why we need to obey the Law according to the spirit as it was always intended.
Peter, referring to the law states:
Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear
Acts 15:10
Why does Peter state that if the law is easy to obey?
Is your position that Peter and the Jerusalem Council considered God to be a liar? Do you think they were also in disagreement with the extremely high praises for the Law expressed in the Psalms? David said he meditated on the Law day on night, that he loved the Law, that he delighted in obeying it, that those who obey it will be blessed, that he wanted God to show His grace to him by teaching him to obey the Law, etc., and Paul also said that he delighted in obeying it (Romans 7:22), so I think he and the average Jew was on the same page as David and would have never consider this precious gift from God to be a heavy burden that no one could bear. I realized that the view of God's Law that I had been taught didn't conform to the view expressed in Scripture and that I needed to conform my view to Scripture, which led me to see that Scripture had much more continuity and was much more part of a cohesive whole than I had given it credit for. In 1 John 5:3, it also confirms that the commands of God are not burdensome.
The issue being discussed in Acts 15:1 was whether Gentiles had to become circumcised in order to become saved. The problem is that nowhere in God's Law does it require all Gentiles to become circumcised and certainly not for the purpose of becoming saved. While all Jews were required to become circumcised, not even they were required to become circumcised in order to become saved, and if God did not required this, then the Jerusalem Council was upholding God's Law by rejecting this man-made requirement. In Mark 7:6-9, Jesus called the Pharisees hypocrites for setting aside the commands of God in order to establish their own traditions, so it is important to understand that what the Pharisees were teaching as God's Law was instead full of their own traditions. We need to be careful not to take something that was only against what the Pharisees were teaching as being against obeying the Law of the God that we serve, otherwise we can easily end up with the position that it is somehow bad to obey our God's laws when when that is what He wanted His children to obey all throughout the Bible.
Now please, make a comment as to why Paul stated the power of sin is the law. That's what this thread is about. I am tired of endlessly going over the same old things with you( no offence meant)
Let's try and discuss the title of the thread, something different
The issue I raised in my first post was in regard to it being important to discern which law is being talked about as being the power of sin. Paul made a very similar statement in Romans 7:8, so the law being described in 1 Corinthians 15:56 closely fits his description of the law of sin. If God's Law were the power of sin, then it would be sin, but Paul directly said that God's Law was not sin, but rather that it reveals what sin is (Romans 7:7).