Yes, i agree Gods Righteousness has always been through Faith BUT the law given under the old covenant is Not based on Faith but on the person who follows the law as Paul stated in
Galatians 3:12.."the law is "
Not" based on Faith, on the contrary, it says "the "person" who does these things will live by them".
The law is not faith, nor did I ever state that it is, faith is in God and trusting what He asks of us and doing it, because we believe God would not ask us to do something that is not good for us in both Old and New Covenant and because we love God Exodus 20:6, 1 John 5:3. Abraham was justified through faith
Romans 4:1-8 and that faith in God trusted the things that God asked and
did them.
Gen 26:5. How do you have faith in God but not enough faith to do the things that He asks. That does not sound like saving faith to me.
.Since, the fulfilling of the law under the old covenant is Not based on Faith, but the person who follow it, then righteousness under this covenant is self righteousness Not God Righteousness..
What is God's righteousness? God is righteous Psalms 145:17 All of God's commandments are righteous
Psalms 119:172 and God's character is reflected in His commandments so doing them will always be right and there is no scripture that says obeying God's commandments is self-righteous but obeying our on self-law is righteous.
As Paul reinforced this point in
Philippians 3:9...not having a righteousness of "my own" that comes from the law But that which is through Faith in Jesus Christ....
We have been through this a few times - all righteousness comes from God .... I will copy what I wrote previously which thus far you haven't really addressed.
I agree all righteousness (right-doing) comes from God and all of God's commandments are righteous
Psalms 119:172 which means its the morally right thing to do. Our righteousness is when we depend on our own version of right-doing and not God's. When we decide which laws, we are going to obey based on our version of what we feel is right or wrong, but scripture says
all of God's commandments are righteousness, so there is never a time to cast aside the commandments we don't want to keep and replace it with self-law. We cannot sanctify ourselves; we are only sanctified by God and are sanctified by the Truth of God's Word
John 17:17 and
all of God's commandments are Truth.
Psalms 119:151
Here, Paul distinguish the Righteousness from the law and the Righteousness from Faith...
Romans 10:5-8..Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by law; "the "person" who does these things will live by them. BUT, The Righteousness that is by Faith says: "Do not say in your heart, who will ascend into heaven? (To bring down Christ), or descend into the deep (that is to bring up Christ from dead). But what is say? The "word" is in your mouth and in your heart....(ie the Gospel message).
Are you implying those who live by faith don't have the law of God written in the heart and doesn't do what God placed in the hearts and minds of His people?
I think we may be going in circles but I'll say this again for the record:
We are not made righteous by the law, we are made righteous by faith in God and those who have faith uphold God's law says Paul Romans 3:31. Paul very clearly says faith does not void the law, which seems to be the case you're trying to make, but instead those who have faith uphold God's law.
The law brings us to Christ Galatians 3:24 and perfect for converting the soul Psalms 19:7 because it is the right thing to do Psalms 119:172 the opposite (breaking God's law) is sin 1 John 3:4 Romans 7:7 and sin is of the devil 1 John 3:8 so that's our choice do we keep God's law through faith, or do we sit back and justify why we can't keep the law and be a slave to sin?
Paul puts it this way....
Romans 6:16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves
whom you obey, whether of sin
leading to death,
or of obedience leading to righteousness?
So its through our choices that we either sin and go down one path or have faith in God which is obedient to what He asks and leads us down the other. These are our two choices- we either take the wide path or the narrow path.