Do you still (or ever) continue to run red lights, to run stop signs , to disobey traffic laws ?
Well said. The trick is when we start talking about actually doing the things Jesus said to do. For example, Jesus said to keep charity, fasting, and praying secret. He said hypocrites make a public spectacle of these things. But, it's pretty rare to see any Christians keeping in step with this spirit. Rather, the seem to enjoy making a public issue of these things.
If you TRUELY believe that the NEW COVENANT is in operation Today , how can a GENTILE be SAVED TODAY ??
Gentiles are saved today exactly the same way Jews are saved today, because there is no difference spiritually between Jews and Gentiles; they are exactly the same under the New Covenant.
I like that too, and the only Gospel worthy of belief in my opinion. Let’s look at how well the Jews have done under the law. Jesus didn’t come to earth to reform the nature of the flesh so that after the soul and spirit are saved it can turn around and boast of it’s own righteous merit under self perceived “good” works of the law, but He came to put all it’s works to death in His body. “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God”. If good works were actually happening in the sense that Christian’s perceive themselves to be “good”, as many Christian’s as there are in the world, the world wouldn’t be in the condition that it is today. Far from being able to “keep” the law, the only thing the Spirit can show the flesh under the law, even after a person has been saved is that the nature of his flesh is still a sinner and that’s all it’s ever gonna be until “the body of this death” is laid to rest in the grave. What other option does a person have but to rest in the finished work of Jesus and be saved by Grace and Grace alone amen.
The Law of Moses dealt with lusting/coveting what belongs to another.
I agree one must start here.
And Peter said of Paul in 2 Peter 3:15 says that Paul has written unto you and says that what Paul has WRITTEN ARE hard to
Yes, a lot of what Paul wrote is difficult to understand for the untrained and those still requiring the milk of the Word. But that does not mean that his writing should not be consulted for those of us feeding on the meat. Or that that meat should not be "processed" in such a way that those needing milk can understand it. All of Jesus' own teaching was done in parables so that the meaning would be hidden from those who were blind to the Spirit, and much of Paul's writing is similarly masked. But none of that changes the fact that the author of the Scriptures is the Holy Spirit, and not the men who put pen to paper for Him.
Clearly not everything was understood, even by the Apostles, in the very beginning. And the Apostles were not free from sin after Pentecost, because Paul caught Peter sinning and leading others to sin when he confronted him in Gal 2. So when we read the context of James' statements here in Acts 15, we see that part of what he is saying is geared toward limiting friction between the Jewish believers and the Gentile believers. Clearly sexual immorality is a sin, but meat sacrificed to idols, meat of strangled animals, and blood are no longer sinful to consume, but they are disturbing to the Jews (For these laws of Moses have been preached in Jewish synagogues in every city on every Sabbath for many generations.). And the consumption of them by the Gentiles may have caused the Jews to sin in consuming them since the Jews still believed it was sinful to consume them (1 Cor 8). Because (in terms of something that is not inherently sinful (musical instruments in worship, eating meat sacrificed to idols, eating pork, etc.)) if one believes that it is a sin, then for them it is sin, while for the one who believes it is not sin, it is not sin for them to do.
