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To: HarleyD; roamer_1; redleghunter

This article is not going to be popular with the Grace -covers-all crowd!

Thanks for posting it!


2 posted on 09/02/2014 5:34:55 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Grace does cover all.

The regenerate desire and strive to keep the law.

There is no tension here.


5 posted on 09/02/2014 5:41:36 PM PDT by Gamecock (Not responsible for errors resulting from posting via my "smart" phone.)
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To: editor-surveyor; roamer_1; redleghunter; daniel1212; Elsie; metmom; All
This article is not going to be popular with the Grace -covers-all crowd!

It is so easy to make a point using isolated quotes from Scripture, but it must be complete within context to supply the proper theme and conversation

Paul complies the thought at the end of Chapter 7, and encapsulates it in the first part of Chapter 8...

Romans 8: 1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ...

6 posted on 09/02/2014 5:41:42 PM PDT by WVKayaker (Impeachment is the Constitution's answer for a derelict, incompetent president! -Sarah Palin 7/26/14)
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To: editor-surveyor

Sola Gratia, as affirmed by the Council of Orange in 529 AD. In that sense, I would say that grace does cover everthing — perhaps not in the sense you mean though.


9 posted on 09/02/2014 6:11:58 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
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To: editor-surveyor
This article is not going to be popular with the Grace -covers-all crowd!

And the LETTER found in Acts 15 is not 'popular' with you!

30 posted on 09/03/2014 3:35:59 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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