An Exegesis of Posts 576 - 578 for the purpose of comparing faith alone doctrine with Salvation by works doctrine.
To eliminate personal reference and simply focus on tangible doctrine, References will be referred to as
FA (Faith Alone Doctrine) and
SBW (Salvation by Works Doctrine).
Individuals discussing FA vs SBW doctrine will be referred to as
SBW proponent and
FA proponent.
With all statements made between doctrines... this quote is imperative to evaluate against specific claims made by
SBW Doctrine.
Now who said I disagree with that statement?
The following is the statement being agreed with...
You disagree with these words?
"The Sabbath is the great test question. It is the line of demarkation between the loyal and true and the disloyal and transgressor. ... It is the seal of the living God."4
"Thus the distinction is drawn between the loyal and the disloyal. Those who desire to have the seal of God in their foreheads must keep the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. Thus they are distinguished from the disloyal, who have accepted a manmade institution in place of the true Sabbath. The observance of God's rest day is a mark of distinction between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not."5
The claim of the
SBW Proponent was that the seal is not the sabbath... and yet here, we see the Proponent does agree that the seal is the Sabbath. The word seal of God is specifically linked to the fourth commandment of the Stone Law in the
SBW Holy writings.
Sin is the issue here. According to God's WORD in the NEW COVENANT, sin is the breaking of any one of God's 10 Commandments *JAMES 2:10-11; 1 JOHN 3:4; ROMANS 7:7; ROMANS 3:20
Here, the 10 Commandments are exalted as the New Covenant Standard of righteousness... Not Jesus Christ.
Now if God's 4th commandment is one of God's 10 Commandments then if we KNOWINGLY break it just like any one of God's 10 commandments we stand guilty before God of sin.
Here sin against the 10 commandments is now associated with the statement that if we go on sinning after we know the Blessed Hope, we will be removed from Him. The TRUTH is found in Galatians 5:4, and
the SBW doctrine being evaluated goes to great lengths to claim it is the Holy Spirit that seals, but the Holy Spirit is simply a leverage to achieving Carnal Righteousness by the 10 Commandments, which by the very words of this doctrine have a hold on a "Believer's" Salvational fate.
According to God's WORD in the NEW COVENANT all those who continue in known unrepentant sin will not enter the kingdom of heaven because those doing so reject the gift of God's dear son *ROMANS 6:23; HEBREWS 10:26-31. The seal of God is the Holy Spirit that God gives to all those who BELIEVE and FOLLOW God's WORD *ACTS 5:32. You are really trying hard to change the subject here aren't you brother
This statement is now so clear, that it cannot by misconstrued...
SBW doctrine not only often claims it is not exalting the Stone Law as Salvational, but it uses many tactics to skirt around the final facts.... It is completely dependent upon the Stone Law.
By this final quote... it is seen that SBW doctrine re exalts the Law and calls a failure to Keep the Law and essentially TEACH LAW KEEPING...
a REJECTION OF JESUS CHRIST.
The actual biblical stance on this matter...
Galatians 5:4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
This concludes my exegesis of these posts.