We know that the work of Christ is complete in our lives, and that we are no longer under the law. I am deliberately not pinging the other side because frankly I don't care what they have to say. It does not line up with Scripture and only serves to confuse.
God looks on us as sinners, but provides a protection from that sin. It is the blood of Jesus, and nothing more we can do but believe. He is just and the justifier. I liken it to the morton girl. Our faith is the umbrella and all God sees is that blood pouring down! We can walk unscathed by the penalty of sin...
Galatians 2: 15 “We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles 16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
17 “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! 18 If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker.
19 “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”
