No, there's a huge distinction. CHRINOs will claim you need to follow the commandments to get to heaven, and that you can succeed in and of yourself. I claim you need to follow the commandments to get to heaven, and you will always fail in and of yourself.
Either way, both of you claim that you need to keep the commandments to go to heaven. That is the point.
How are you doing on the commandment to keep Saturday holy?
No. No one can without the interceding Grace of the Holy Spirit. I'm a Calvinist, remember?
Ah, you keep the commandments because you have Grace.
How are you doing on the commandment to give to everyone that asks of you?
Because you're allergic to reading the entire story. The Rich Young Ruler stated he followed them all from his youth, which isn't true, because Jesus followed up with the one thing he lacked.
Red herring.
Again, when Jesus was asked which commandments one needs to follow to go to heaven, he listed six. You say you need to keep all of them. Which is it? Those six, or all of them?
Who should I believe? You or Jesus?
If there is going to be a final, I would like a clear answer as to what is going to be on the final.
He'd certainly have every right to, but Jesus instead offered Himself up as a substitutionary sacrifice to the Father, so that anyone who believes in Jesus is not condemned--as if that man had never sinned.
Except if one believes and then fails to keep the commandments, then there is a problem, yes? You have told us if one fails to keep the commandments, he will not go to heaven.
How are you doing on the commandment not to bear false witness?
The one who believes in the Lamb of God is covered.
Does that allow him to go to heaven without keeping all the commandments? That would contradict what you said elsewhere.
Then you conveniently lop-off the actual conclusion of the story.
In the end, Genesis says Abraham did not kill Isaac. There. You happy?
Now back to my point. You say God commanded Abraham to sin by killing Isaac. You say Abraham sinned when he set out to kill Isaac. And yet you praise Abraham for sinning.
How is it that you come here and repeatedly praise a man for sinning?
You could settle the whole question with a simple answer. Do you or do you not think it was wrong to set out to kill Isaac? You are paralyzed every time I ask that question. You refuse to answer.
If your morality cannot tell me whether it is right or wrong to take your son and bind him on an alter with the intention of plunging a knife through his heart and burning the body as a sacrifice to God, what good is your morality?
The focus was on Abraham's highest priority: His faith in God, or his love for his son Isaac.
My focus is on what Abraham did. Genesis says he set out to kill his son. And you cannot tell me whether you think Abraham was right or wrong to set out to kill his son.
Abraham chose wisely, concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense. - Hebrews 11:19
Which seems to say you think Abraham was right to set out to kill his son. But then in your next post you will go ballistic declaring that Abraham sinned when he set out to kill his son. I'm confused.
That's because you're too busy chasing around; trying to hard to find someone to "get."
I am not trying to
get you. I am trying to
understand you. Get it?
Abraham was willing to take the sin upon himself.
Does that mean Abraham sinned willingly?
Do you or do you not approve of Abraham sinning? Are you, like Coolidge's pastor, against sin? Or are you for it?