[epow]

Luther didn't garble the Galatians verses, and Paul certainly didn't limit his comments on law keeping to Jewish law. Salvation is by grace through faith alone. Works, whether by observing Jewish laws and feast days, by obeying the 10 commandments, or by any sacrament established by the Roman church or any protestant denomination have no part in salvation by grace through faith in the blood sacrifice made once for all by our Savior. No mortal man can keep all of God's laws for all of his or her life. But the Son of God Himself, the 2nd personage of the Holy Trinity, Jesus Christ, could and did. And his perfect, sinless life is credited to our account when we accept Him as Lord and Savior.

That doesn't mean that we can sin and not pay a price for it, we can't. We pay a price for breaking God's law by falling out of fellowship with our Lord and forfeiting, temporarily at least, the blessings of a close personal relationship with Him, but not by losing our irreversible salvation. My salvation was paid for in full on the cross in my precious Savior's sinless blood, and "PAID IN FULL" is written large over God's record of my sin debt. I strive daily to obey his laws with the aid of the ever present Holy Spirit, but I fail more often than I succeed. If not for Jesus' boundless grace I would be condemned to the lowest level of hell, but with Him all things are possible, even the salvation of my eternal soul.

[metmom]

That’s it in a nutshell.

Seems a lot of people have a problem with the judicial pardon for our sins that God gives us and calls forgiveness and grants freely for the asking.

[boatbums]

Well said!