I think you have to go back to the beginning when there was only one law. Do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Note that this is the "knowledge" of what already exists , good and evil, but without Adam and Eve's knowledge of it.HOW CAN WE HAVE GOD'S GRACE IF WE HAVE NO LAW AND NO KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT SIN IS OR THE PENALTY OF SIN?
Brother these are questions to be answered with scripture according to the OP which you have not answered with scripture.
*How can you have God's GRACE without God's LAW?
*In regards to ROMANS 7:6 What is it that we are to die to that has bound us?
God bless.
GRACE IS FOR OBEDIENCE ...never seen it like that.. I Like "By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:"
When one uses the word "law".. need to explain more. Well the law of Moses? I think your talking about Gods moral law.. the 10 commandments.. yet some Jewish people read 15.. some only 9.. yet all are in just 2. Keep those.. and you have kept all.
Should be easy to see.. when He says.. "Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:" Grace..Gods unmerited favor. Which is used 170 times in the NT. For me.. never has He said shown me in any way its for obedience. Where I fail.. HE IS! Grace...truth ..I never give any thought to 10 commandments.. He is in me.. I never hmm for me NOT to do wrong.. sin.. I never see a LAW I am not to brake or not do.
I am free.. I can do anything I want.. freely sin? As He said.. God forbid. I never want to sin.. my flesh always does. As He said.. its no longer I that sin but sin that is in me. WHAT did HE make create NEW in us? And can that which He made new sin? He said.. that which is born of GOD does not sin. Do you see? If one sees only ME as in just flesh not spirit not two so to speak..then I can understand keeping 10 commandments and if I brake one.. grace is there. What died when Adam and Eve sinned? Sorry..
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. Romans 3:21
That is for you to follow and no one else.I dont judge anyone's salvation. I simply follow the Lord.
Here let's answer thw first question using the scriptures.
WHAT IS GRACE FOR?
ROMANS 1:5
5, By whom we have received GRACE and apostleship, FOR OBEDIENCE TO THE FAITH among all nations, for his name.
TITUS 2:11-12
[11], FOR THE GRACE OF GOD HAS APPEARED BRINGING SALVATION TO ALL MEN,
[12], TEACHING US, THAT, DENYING UNGODLINESS AND WORLDLY JUSTS, WE SHOULD LIVE SOBERLY, RIGHTOUESLY AND GODLY IN THIS PRESENT WORLD
ROMANS 6:1-2, [1] What shall we say then? SHALL WE SIN [break any one of God's 10 commandments], THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND? God forbid. [2], How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
God's GRACE IS FOR OBEDIENCE to GOD'S WORD.
Did you wish to answer the other questions?
Absolutely. God's law in in my heart. Not in any writings.I would say the same of you.
If Gods law is in your heart, why do you appose his law?Absolutely. God's law in in my heart. Not in any writings.
The writings of law in scripture are obsolete.
Acts 1:24
And they prayed, "Lord, You know everyone's heart. Show us which of these two You have chosen
1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart."
2 Chronicles 6:30
be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart--for You alone know the hearts of men--
Psalm 44:21
would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
Grace is the unmerited favor of God. It is where God shows us mercy, kindness, and patience instead of the judgment that we deserve for sinning against Him. God's grace cannot be earned by our actions. Grace is based on the character of God and not on our sincerity, performance, or ability to keep the law. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.That's not even related to grace.
So grace is favor, "unmerited favor." Salvation by Grace. Grace is, therefore, God's unmerited favor - His goodness toward those who have no claim on, nor reason to expect, divine favor. The principal manifestation of God's grace has been in the form of a gift.
"THE GRACE OF GOD"
"THE GRACE OF GOD"
If Gods law is in your heart, why do you appose his law?
So its OK to lie because its not against mans law?
Its not against mans law to lie to each other though.