Correct. Because a free man
LIVES by The Law.
The condemnation, or more accurately, the Curse of The Law, is the penalty clause for
not keeping The Law (see
Deut. 28). Therefore the
Only Way not to be under the Curse of The Law
is to keep/obey The Law.
Correct. That's why The Law is referred to as the
PERFECT Law of
LIBERTY.
James 1:23-26
1:23 For if any be a hearer of the Word, and
NOT a
DOER, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass (mirror):
1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was ("Self" deception).
1:25 But whoso looketh into
the Perfect Law of Liberty (the true mirror),
and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a
DOER of the work,
this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Correct. That's why we MUST keep The Law, so it can teach us to be like Christ. Doing anything less makes a mockery of Christ's sacrifice to pay for our PAST sins, if we choose to sell ourselves back into slavery/bondage to sin.
Romans 3:25 Whom God hath fore-ordained [to be] an atonement through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins
THAT ARE PAST, through the forbearance of God;
Instead of creating a false dichotomy (Jesus+Christ was The Law made flesh), why not believe what Christ said about The Law and perfection?
Matthew 5:17-18
5:17
Think NOT that I am come to destroy The Law, or the Prophets [who all taught The Law]: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill [fully preach The Law (The Torah) and fulfill the prophecies about the first coming of the Messiah].
5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no way pass from The Law, till all be fulfilled.
Questions: If Christ said He did
NOT come to destroy The Law, wouldn't it be satanic to think He meant the exact opposite? And do you believe heaven and earth have passed away? If so, how is it we're still here?
Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven IS perfect.
Question:
Do you really believe Father sins/breaks His Own Law?
Matthew 23:1-4
23:1 Then spoke Jesus to the multitude,
and to his disciples,
23:2 Saying,
The lawyers and the politicians sit in Moses' Law seat:
23:3
All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe of God's Law, [that] observe and do; but do not ye after their example: for they say, and do not (and make up their own laws against God's Orders - Deut. 4:2).
23:4
For they bind heavy burdens (the Talmud) and grievous to be borne, and lay [them] on men's shoulders; but they [themselves] will not lift one of their fingers to remove them.
Questions: We know from other references in the Gospels (e.g.
John 5:45-47,
John 7:19) that the lawyers/scribes and politicians/pharisees did
NOT keep The Law, even though they claimed to do so. So why would Christ tell His Disciples to keep The Law if He didn't want them to keep it?
And what did Christ Disciples (i.e. the ones Christ
personally taught) say about The Law and perfection?
1 John 2:3-5
2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him (Christ),
IF we keep His Commandments.
2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth
NOT His Commandments, is a
LIAR, and the truth is
NOT in him.
2:5 But whoso
keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
Questions: You do know that God's Commandments are His Law, do you not? How could someone claim to know Christ, and continue in sin/breaking The Law? Do you believe Christ came to make the world
MORE evil/sinful, i.e. to encourage us to break The Law/remain habitual sinners/criminals?
1 John 4:15-18, 5:2-3
4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Christ is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
4:17
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
4:18
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment.
He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
5:2
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and KEEP His Commandments.
5:3 For
THIS is the love of God, that we KEEP His Commandments: and His Commandments are NOT grievous.
Thank-you. It's been read multiple times and studied in depth. Did you perhaps miss the following verses, where Paul said he was living by The Law, The Law (God's Commandments) is holy, just and good, and that he was establishing The Law everywhere he went?
Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind (Being)
I myself serve The Law of God; but with the flesh (human) the law of sin.
Romans 7:12 Wherefore
The Law [is] holy, and the Commandment holy, and just, and good.
Romans 3:30-31
3:30 Seeing [it is]
ONE God (not a "trinity"), which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision
through faith.
3:31 Do we then make void The Law through faith?
God forbid: yea, we establish The Law.
When Paul speaks about "the deeds of The Law" or "the works of The Law" he is speaking about
ANIMAL SACRIFICE TO ATONE FOR ONE'S SINS. He very clearly is
NOT speaking about doing Good (Godly) works.
For reference, sin = breaking The Law (
1 John 3:4), so the reason for the animal sacrifices were due to someone committing a sin/crime, i.e. breaking The Law (causing harm to one's neighbor or their property). It should therefore be clear that one cannot claim to love God and their neighbor/brother and continue to commit crimes against God and against (harm) their neighbor/brother.
The ordinances performed by the Levitical priesthood, including animal sacrifice, were done away with at the cross (Eph. 2:14-15, Col. 2:14), when the priesthood was reduced to
ONE High Priest: Christ, Who replaced animal sacrifice with
SELF-SACRIFICE, exactly as He taught His Disciples (see
Matt. 10:38,
Mark 8:34,
Luke 9:23) and as Paul likewise taught (
Gal. 2:20). That is why no one will be saved through animal sacrifice; salvation is only by believing Christ (not just "in" Him) and
DOING what we've been
COMMANDED to do: strive to be perfect, crucify the "self" (the ego)
DAILY and
KEEP THE LAW.
Romans 2:13 (For not the hearers of The Law [are] just before God, but the
DOERS of The Law (The Torah) shall be justified.