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To: vladimir998
You might want to read, say, Galatians 2:16.
30 posted on 03/23/2009 6:59:09 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky
Galatians 2:14-16 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews? We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.
But those are all references to the Mosaic Law. It doesn't seem relevant to this discussion of the good works produced by Christian faith.
32 posted on 03/23/2009 7:07:36 AM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: Mr. Lucky

You wrote:

“You might want to read, say, Galatians 2:16.”

Already have. You might want to read about what “obedience of faith” means and what “works of the law” means in Paul’s writings.

You might want to read Chris VanLandingham’s Judgment & Justification In Early Judaism And The Apostle Paul.


69 posted on 03/23/2009 9:24:28 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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