Actually all Christians are much greater than the king of Babylon.
Jesus answered all questions posed by His disciples. All of them. And then He sent the Holy Spirit to His disciples to reveal all truth to them. Christ is not a principal of a school.
This is what you stated: "If he says to you, "DEPART from me, I never knew you, you worker of iniquity", it is obvious that he knows you, because he knows you are a worker of iniquity. So what I gather from this passage; even if he knows you are a worker of iniquity, he will never know you, if you are worker of iniquity!"
You claim that the workers on inequity knew Jesus. My argument is that the workers of inequity (false prophets in the context of this passage) never knew Jesus, consequently Jesus never knew them.
Really? Are you now changing scripture? The Greek preposition used here is χωρὶς which means "without." God credits righteousness "without" the works of the Law.
Sure, but this is not what this verse is talking about. The Greek noun ἀνομίαι means "without law." The verse states that blessed are those whose deeds without the Jewish law have been forgiven. Repentance (Greek noun μετάνοιάν
means "a change of mind" which is something that Israel, having the Law, did often and then went back to their wicked ways so they repented again creating a cycle of repentance and falling away. The letter of the Law kills and those proposing that the Law is necessary for the Christian are removing true repentance and God's grace. Grace and the Law are opposites.
This is not even hinted in this verse. Again, Who are those whose LAWLESS deeds have been forgiven and whose sin have been covered? Who is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account? Remember that in this verse those whose deeds have been forgiven are WITHOUT the Jewish Law.
I reject the Law of Moses because it was never given to me, a gentile. The Law of Moses was given to Israel.
You continue to interpret verses in a vacuum.
22 Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many [
n]miracles?
Many= false prophets.
Will say= rendered in the future indicative Active. This means that the false prophets have not said this to Jesus before. This means that their "prophecies in Jesus name" and their "miracles" were not done in Jesus name but on their name. This means that they do not recognize Jesus as their Lord even though they call Him Lord. This means that they are not known to Jesus.
On that day= day of judgment.
23 And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.
Taking this verse in context, and since the previous verse explicitly explains that these false prophets did not know Jesus, and since in this verse Jesus explicitly states that He does not know them, and since they had not come to plead their case prior to the day of judgment, then Jesus is telling a group of false prophets that came on the day of Judgment to plead their case to depart from Him. Jesus never knew them prior to this moment. Since Jesus knows the "voice" of His sheep, then these were never part of them.
Once again, lets take this verse in context.
24 So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner. 25 He then answered, Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see. 26 So they said to him, What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes? 27 He answered them, I told you already and you did not listen; why do you want to hear
it again? You do not want to become His disciples too, do you? 28 They reviled him and said, You are His disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where He is from. 30 The man answered and said to them, Well, here is an amazing thing, that you do not know where He is from, and
yet He opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him. 32 [
d]Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, He could do nothing. 34 They answered him, You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us? So they put him out.
The verse you posted was uttered by the Pharisees in respond to the blind man's argument that he had been healed by Jesus. The Pharisees are attempting to rebuke the now-seeing man's claim that He is now the disciple of Jesus without having spoken to Moses. The Pharisees, of course, are wrong because Jesus came while we were YET sinners. They failed to recognize the Messiah. Are you in agreement with the Pharisees?
Christ did indeed obeyed the whole law. In fact, He was the only one that could and having fulfilled the Law nailed it to the cross in the full view of everyone.
Col. 2
13 When you were dead [
k]in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, 14 having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 When He had [
l]disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through [
m]Him.
The verse is clear. All that follow the Law are attempting justification by their works of the Law and have fallen from grace. Since the Jewish law is no longer binding on the Christian because:
"13 [
i]When He said, A new
covenant, He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is [
j]ready to disappear" (Heb. 8) and the Old Covenant included the Jewish Law, and:
23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. 24 Therefore the Law has become our tutor
to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a [
ai]tutor. 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is [
aj]neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you [
ak]belong to Christ, then you are Abrahams [
al]descendants, heirs according to promise.
Since the last remaining role of the Jewish Law is to bring unbelievers to Christ, and since the role of the Jewish Law no longer applies to those who are believers, and since Jesus is our Sabbath rest (the Sabbath is no longer defined as a day but as the savior), and since salvation is by the grace of God through faith in the son, then adherence to the Jewish Law, including the Ten Commandments, given to Israel is not necessary for salvation.
Yes, God declared Abraham righteous because of his faith not because of his adherence to the yet-to-be-given Jewish Law.
