No, because Christ raised the bar higher than ever with the Beatitudes. If no one could be saved by keeping the letter of the Law, then certainly no one could ever be saved keeping the INTENT of the Law.
God's standard is absolute perfection. ONE sin is all that it takes to condemn someone.
Even if someone kept the Law and lived a perfect life except for ONE sin, they would still be condemned.
James 2:8-11 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
If you have never known Christ through no fault of your own I do not think that you are automatically going to hell. How much sense would that make.
We come into this world guilty sinners, all Hell-bound. That’s the spiritual reality. The bar — perfection — was set by God and only through His son. It matters not one bit whether we think it “fair” or not. We need to deep-six the concept of the “innocent savage”. There is no such creature — nor has there ever been. Thank you for your Biblically-correct posts. When Christ said “NO MAN comes to the Father but through ME”, we can assume He meant what He said. No one will. No one.
” No, because Christ raised the bar higher than ever with the Beatitudes. If no one could be saved by keeping the letter of the Law, then certainly no one could ever be saved keeping the INTENT of the Law.
God’s standard is absolute perfection. ONE sin is all that it takes to condemn someone.
Even if someone kept the Law and lived a perfect life except for ONE sin, they would still be condemned.
James 2:8-11 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. “
EXCELLENT POST!!!!