Soyeong
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You are teaching that commandment keeping is how a person enters into Eternal life.
This denies the Cross, and rejects the Blood of Jesus.
Dont do that.
Instead teach that Jesus Himself IS Eternal life, and if we have HIM, "Christ in you the hope of Glory", and if we are born again '"IN Christ".....then we already have eternal life.
Teach that, and then you are in alignment with the NT, according to the Gospel of the Grace of God.
Jesus is the one who said that if we want to enter into eternal life, then obey the commandments, so I'm just quoting what he said. It is also true that Jesus is eternal life and that is because he lived in sinless obedience to the commandments. Jesus is the exact expression of God's nature, or in other words, he is the personification of God's character traits, and what that looked like was sinless obedience to the Mosaic Law, so that is who eternal life is and obedience to it is what is looks like when we have him. In 1 John 2:3-6, those who say that they know Christ, but don't obey his command are liars and those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked, which was in obedience to the Mosaic Law. In Titus 2:11-14, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, which is what the Mosaic Law was given to instruct how to do, so God graciously teaching us to obey His law is itself part of the content of His free gift of salvation. Furthermore, in Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so if we believe in the Cross and accept the Blood of Jesus, then we will become zealous for doing good works in obedience to God's law (Acts 21:20) and will consider returning to the lawlessness that he gave himself to redeem us from to be denying the Cross and rejecting the Blood of Jesus. Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent from our sins for the Kingdom of God is at hand, and the Mosaic Law was how his audience knew what sin is, so repenting from our disobedience to it is an integral part of the Gospel of the Grace of God.
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