Ummmm, no. He gave them the Law so that they would see their sin and the reality that they were sinners.
Indeed, righteousness is the opposite of sinfulness, so when you learn that your actions are sinful, you also learn that doing the opposite is acting rightly.
That "ALL" fall short of God's glory means none live "rightly". Game over.
The fact that all of us fall short of the 100% obedience to God needed to be justified does not mean that obedience to God serves no purpose. God still wants us to avoid sinning and to obey His commands through the leading of His Spirit because that how those who are justified are called to act.
If faith is but the means of obedience to the Law, then it is the Law that is justifying us, not faith. You still make the Law the means for justification, and faith is relegated to only being the means for obeying what justifies us.
Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
The order was very important to Paul - we are saved by grace through faith first for the purpose of doing good works second. In other words, our faith in Messiah should lead us to do good works. Having faith isn't just saying you trust someone, but rather it acting in a way that demonstrates that you trust them, so in the same way, our faith in God requires us to act on it by doing good works. If you get the order mixed up and do good works first in an attempt to be justified apart from faith, then you will fail. I think most people understand that verse 9 is saying we can't be saved by obeying the law, so it seems odd that they forget that part in the next verse.
The Law is what one under it is legally obligated by. There is no other way to follow the Law but legalistically.
The point of the verses in Isaiah was that God was never after legalistic obedience, but that He had a particular way in which He wanted the law to be followed. Here's another example:
Romans 9:30-32a What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; 31 but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness[d] did not succeed in reaching that law. 32 Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works.
The problem with Israel wasn't that they pursued it the law, but that they pursued it in the wrong way. They did not pursue it by faith, but as if it it were by works. If you are trying to become justified by keeping the law legalistically by works where God owes you your justification, then you are obligated to keep all of it, or else you will fail. But if you pursue the law by faith, then you will attain righteousness as the Gentiles did.
Grace and truth did not come through Moses, but through Christ. Being under the Law refers to being under the Law. And all laws have a penalty attached to them, or else they are merely a suggestion. If there is no penalty, there is no "law".
There is no "but" in the Greek, that was added by unhelpful translators, so my interpretation stands until you show how it's wrong. The law makes us conscious of sin and instructs us of what sin is (Romans 3:20, 7:7), so if we are not under the law, then we would be free to sin all we want, but Paul tells us that being under grace instead of being under the law doesn't fee us to sin (Romans 6:15). This means means "not being under the law" doesn't mean the same thing as "free from the law". If we're not free to sin, then we still need to pay avoid the things the laws says are sins, we just aren't under the law's power to condemn us if we do sin.
And no one here is claiming that because we are under grace that it frees us to sin. Quite the contrary. But placing folks under the Law is a surefire way to cause them to sin, as the law "stirs up sin". But when grace is operative in the Christian life there will be "obedience resulting in righteousness" (Rom. 6:16).
Paul only knew what sin was because the law told him, so if we're not free to sin, then we still need to look to the law to see which things we aren't free to to do. The law stirs up sin because of our sin nature, so that is our fault, not the fault of the law. In Romans 6:16, obedience is contrasted with sin, which is disobedience to the law, so the obedience resulting in righteousness precisely is obedience to the law.
Well, which is it? The Spirit transforming us from within, OR us "modeling" our lives after how he thought and behaved, which means becoming obedient to the law?? Those are two opposing thoughts presented as if they somehow are in agreement.
Philippians 1:6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
We are God's workmanship, so it is the Spirit that transforms us and models our lives after Christ and makes us obedient to His laws.
And no, we arent saved by grace through faith and then revert back to the Law to live by. We continue as we began...
The law instructs how to do good works and the law rightly understood and followed leads you to love your neighbor (Galatians 5:14). The law is not sin (Romans 7:7), so we are not being saved from the law's instructions for how to act rightly, but from the condemnation of the law. We need no saving from instructions for how to live rightly after we are justified.
"For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealeda righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith." Rom. 1:17
Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,
but the righteous shall live by his faith.[a]
In Romans 1:17, Paul is quoting the OT, so the righteous living by faith was not a new concept to the NT. They obeyed the law by faith just as we should.
Indeed, what was our "must do" under the Old, becomes Gods "I will" under the New. Thank God.
A role of the Spirit is to lead people to obedience to God and that has not changed between covenants. The laws was never about "must do", but rather that is a perversion of the law, it was always meant to be kept by faith to form a relationship with God.
