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To: MHGinTN
So you believe one can earn eternal life?

What kind of question is that?

Strike three.

346 posted on 01/02/2018 8:58:57 AM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide; MHGinTN
It's a very legitimate question.

You just said in post 344 that *Yes* if someone kept the law perfectly they would go to heaven.

That IS earning your way to heaven.

Your problem is that in the Beatitudes, Jesus showed the INTENT of the Law. He set the bar even higher in dealing with the issues of one's heart, not just their outward actions.

Paul was blameless in regard to the law, and yet, he was not saved.

Philippians 3:2-15 Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.

For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Law keeping contributes NOTHING towards salvation.

It doesn't cancel out or erase the wrongs already done that need to be accounted for. If all you sinned in your life was ONE sin, it would still be enough to condemn you and require blood atonement.

The Law cannot give what it demands.

347 posted on 01/02/2018 9:11:18 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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