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We know saved by grace through faith exists, and being saved as a sovereign gift of God. The standards of God is very high and Holy, no man will be able to keep all of the law until they get glorified bodies during the resurrection. We will all be in sin as long as we are in the flesh. One sin is enough to separate you from God, that is why God gave his begotten son to go die on the cross for our sins, that's the whole message.
Faith is intertwined with obedience. Like a saying, we are saved by faith alone, but that faith is will never be alone.
The Gospel message seems too good to be true to a lot of people, it is common for a man to believe they need to earn something. But what man believes or whatever his philosophy may be doesn't matter.
The common strawman goes something like this. Or the reductio ad absurdum fallacy (When you completely misinterpret what someone said and take it to the very extremes).
"Your preaching lawlessness, are you saying we can sin as much as we want without a care"
"Are you saying we don't have to get baptized or do anything else?"
"Wow, just believe and do nothing else"?
Well no, nobody was saying that. That whole straw man is easily taken care of with Romans 6. No dissection of terms needed.
1What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6We know that our old selfawas crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7For one who has died has been set freeb from sin. 8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
To add anything to the finish work on the cross, is to say Jesus didn't do enough. Which essentially rejects the gospel.
Faith is intertwined with obedience. Like a saying, we are saved by faith alone, but that faith is will never be alone.
The Gospel message seems too good to be true to a lot of people, it is common for a man to believe they need to earn something. But what man believes or whatever his philosophy may be doesn't matter.
The common strawman goes something like this. Or the reductio ad absurdum fallacy (When you completely misinterpret what someone said and take it to the very extremes).
"Your preaching lawlessness, are you saying we can sin as much as we want without a care"
"Are you saying we don't have to get baptized or do anything else?"
"Wow, just believe and do nothing else"?
Well no, nobody was saying that. That whole straw man is easily taken care of with Romans 6. No dissection of terms needed.
1What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6We know that our old selfawas crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7For one who has died has been set freeb from sin. 8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
To add anything to the finish work on the cross, is to say Jesus didn't do enough. Which essentially rejects the gospel.
