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If faith = trust, then faithfulness is its reciprocal: it's the degree to which a person can be trusted.
What kinds of things do people place trust in, then?
My remarkable fellow, people do not 'obey' the law; they act in a particular fashion with regards to not breaking it. The law doesn't command people to act in a particular way, it simply prohibits certain acts.
So once again, you hold that faith is obedience?
That is interesting since the Bible says we should obey the commandments of the Law.
To obey is to conform or comply with. That can be a person or thing you are conforming to or complying with.
Faith is obedience to truth and your mistaken presumptions do not change that fact.
Perhaps that is why eternal life will be given to those who obey the truth.
No offense, but that's a works-based theory of salvation. The Gospel simply states that all who believe on Christ will receive eternal life. Christ goes on to say that if you love Him you will obey Him. They appear to be two separate things.
No offense, but that's a works-based theory of salvation. The Gospel simply states that all who believe on Christ will receive eternal life. Christ goes on to say that if you love Him you will obey Him. They appear to be two separate things.
Our Truth is Christ.
Obey Him your Truth or you will not be inheriting Eternal Life anytime soon.
Read Romans 2:6-11 in your spare time.
What about Rahab the harlot. She was exalted in the letter to the Hebrews as an example of saving faith. Do you think that it was her obedience that saved her? If so may be we should become harlots.
Our Truth is Christ.
Obey Him your Truth or you will not be inheriting Eternal Life anytime soon.
Read Romans 2:6-11 in your spare time.
Romans 2:14,15 follows with:
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and [their] thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another
This is exactly what I was talking about
A key phrase here is: "their conscience also bearing witness". When a believer obeys according to their faith, they bear witness of that faith. As I was saying, faith on Christ saves us. Obedience bears witness and flows outwardly from our faith. Obedience itself doesn't save us, but that's not to say that we should be disobedient.
You seem to have overlooked verses 6-10.
To obey is to conform or comply with. That can be a person or thing you are conforming to or complying with.
Faith is obedience to truth and your mistaken presumptions do not change that fact.
Truth is God's word.
I expected this, so - Is it true that the truth is God's word because God said so?
edit: and this only answers my first question.
I was amazed you would ask that. Of course God's word is truth because He said so.
The truth of a thing is recognized by if it lines up with what God's word says.
What! Do you mean that God can surpass even logic?
What if God says nothing about a particular action, what are we to use as a measuring device to see whether this thing is true or not?
Logic is what God says.
If a person compares what God says to what they think is logic, and they are not the same, guess who is lacking. I will give you a hint. It is not God. It is the persons understanding that needs help.
The word covers everything except questions like what is Gods plan for my life. However, by reading the word combined with prayer God revels that to us.
The measuring device is not the physical senses.
Since you seem to know what it isn't, perhaps you could instead tell me what it is?
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