It is the doers of the Law who are righteous before God.

[Guojing]

Scripture can mislead when handled by one whose purpose is to mislead. There is hardly a single error taught that is not based upon some passage of scripture misapplied or otherwise distorted.

I doubt anyone really think they are misleading.

I believe they genuinely believe that their understanding of scripture, is what it actually meant.

 

[timothyu]

How many include the culture of the day in their understandings?

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

I doubt anyone really think they are misleading.

I believe they genuinely believe that their understanding of scripture, is what it actually meant.

And therein lies the danger when people start to believe that their own personal interpretation of a passage is what the passage really, truly means then what's the difference between that person and a claim to be the infallible interpreter of the Holy Scriptures?

 

[timothyu]

Too many forget context.. thinking plucking similar scriptures from all over the Bible verifies a belief.

 

[Guojing]

Too many forget context.. thinking plucking similar scriptures from all over the Bible verifies a belief.

Like how you pluck "kingdom of God" from various Pauline passages to verify that he was also preaching the gospel of the kingdom?

 

[timothyu]

Like how you pluck "kingdom of God" from various Pauline passages to verify that he was also preaching the gospel of the kingdom?

To go along with the entire Gospel of the Kingdom that Jesus taught, yes. Context

 

[Guojing]

To go along with the entire Gospel of the Kingdom that Jesus taught, yes. Context

One person's "in context" in another person's "out of context".

That was my point.

 

[timothyu]

One person's "in context" in another person's "out of context".

This is true. Institutionalized Christianity has been out of context since it abandoned the Kingdom to align itself with the world we have made in our own image yet see no problem compared to those of the Kingdom who reject the adversarial world.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

Sinners who were not subject to the law will perish all the same, without the law; sinners who were under the law will have that law to judge them. It is not listening to the law but keeping it that will make people wholly in the sight of God.

 

[biblelesson]

Sinners who were not subject to the law will perish all the same, without the law; sinners who were under the law will have that law to judge them. It is not listening to the law but keeping it that will make people wholly in the sight of God.

There is not one man on this entire earth that can keep the law, Romans 3:23 KJV. And those who claim they keep the law will die in their sins because, any attempt to keep the law, the law will result in death, Romans 8:2 KJV.

That’s why Jesus came: to save us from the condemnation of the law, Romans 8:1 KJV.

We cannot live according to self, which is the carnal man, therefore we can’t keep the law if we are dead, and our life is hid in Christ Colossians 3:3 KJV. Any attempt to keep the law will be in the self, and the self man (old man and/or our carnal nature) has been crucified on the cross, Romans 6:6 KJV.

So how must we live? We live according to the Spirit. And if we live according to the Spirit, there is no need to keep the law, because the Spirit is “God in us,” 1 Corinthians 2:12 KJV, we dwell in Him and He dwells in us, 1 John 4:13 KJV, which makes us righteous - because the Spirit cannot sin, 1 John 3:9 KJV. The Spirit in us takes the place of the law, that is, “the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit,” Romans 8:4 KJV. God Who is the creator of the law, and is in us by His Spirit, does not have to keep His Own law.

In Jesus the keeping of the law is credited to the believer, because Jesus IS the ENTIRETY of the law. We are in Christ, and Christ is in us, therefore, because of Christ, we automatically are made righteous under the law. Because it is the righteousness of Christ that is imputed onto us, 2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV, Philippians 3:9 KJV, Galatians 2:16 KJV, Romans 3:22 KJV, 1 Corinthians 1:30 KJV, Romans 4:5 KJV. In Christ, the law is put in our hearts and mind by the Power of the Holy Spirit through faith, thereby circumcising our hearts, eliminating the need to keep the law, Philippians 3:3 KJV. Because the law is death, Romans 7:6 KJV, but Christ Jesus is life.

If we believe on Christ, we then are counted righteous, because Christ is the fullness of the law.

It’s Jesus, not the law. The entire Mosiac law, to include the Ten Commandments was about Jesus; pointed to Jesus. Now that Jesus came in the likeness of man, died on the cross, and rose, and is the fullness of the Godhead bodily, Colossians 2:9 KJV, and is our savior, why go back to the very law that pointer to Jesus, when He is our Lord and Savior, and our High Priest.

We don’t follow the law, we follow the Power of God that is unto salvation, which is the gospel Romans 1:16 KJV. It is the gospel of Christ that is unto salvation, not the law.