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To: metmom

Unbelievers are judged by the Law. Christians are judged by being in Christ, in a state of grace.


The bible clearly says you are wrong. We are all judged by the law.

Romans 2:11-13
For God does not show favoritism. 12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.…

What law? The Royal law, the law of liberty.

James 2:
8If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

9But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

10For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

11For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

12So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

James 1:
22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23For 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:

24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

(Maybe the Holy Spirit can do something for you?)


137 posted on 03/02/2021 9:10:26 AM PST by Philsworld
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To: Philsworld
You state..."We are all judged by the law."....

Of course...how would we know that we need Christ if it weren't for the law showing us what we're breaking? ...Without the law how can you call anything a sin against a Holy God?..... Further there's no need for a savior if we're not sinning against Him.....Additionally since you are guilty even in the least of area of the law you're guilty of all the law so there's really no escape for anyone....and especially if you think your righteous in any of it.....because it's written all our righteousness is a filthy rags. Therefore all are under the wrath of our Holy God for their sins without Christ saving them from that.

154 posted on 03/02/2021 11:31:59 AM PST by caww
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To: Philsworld
Jesus fulfilled the Law and by His grace, He endows those who place their faith in Him and His sacrifice on the cross with that perfect righteousness.

2 Corinthians 5:21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

His righteousness is credited to the account of the believer upon exercising saving faith. The debt we owe for our sin has been erased by Jesus death and God considers us sinless and can relate to us that way.

Colossians 2:13-15 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

Colossians 2:16-23 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

Colossians 3:3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Jesus said this about Law keeping..

Matthew 5:17-20 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Does your righteousness exceed that of the pharisees?

Don't forget that if you lust, you commit adultery and if you hate you murder.

Law keeping could possibly be done by some with enough strength of will, but if the heart is not right, then it's all for nothing.

Luke 18:9-14 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Besides, it's not possible for you to keep the entire Law. The Temple doesn't exist any more.

Say, aren't you the guy so hung up on Sabbath keeping who posts on FR on the Sabbath?

You have't seen the hypocrisy of that yet?

177 posted on 03/02/2021 2:11:07 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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