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Do you always make it a habit to tell others what they have said, whether or not they did? This is a strange position. Since the premise of this post is false, what follows is also false. If you address what I posted, I would be glad to respond.
You are assuming that Sabbath keeping is God's perfect will. God fulfilled the law for us, so is it his will for us to try to fulfill it? Is it his will that we try to redo what Christ has done?
Neither of these texts addresses the law. They address the will of God. God wants a willing, submissive, humble heart to mold into the likeness of His son. Keeping commandments to achieve that will always fail. Keeping His commands because we have been saved and renewed has already succeeded before the fact.
Finally something we can agree on. What is a mind conformed to the likeness of Jesus' mind? One that views the law of God as He does. One that hates iniquity.
Brother, the word "faith" in the New Testament is encoded where you need Paul's decoding of the word's ambiguous meaning to not be deceived by those who twist the scriptures, taking advantage of this ambiguous word. Paul cites "believed" using the word translated for "faith" in Greek for Abraham's having "believed" in the original Hebrew, Paul revealing in the Greek New Testament that the word for "faith" in Greek is ambiguous between "faith" and "belief" in Hebrew. Paul uses the word in Greek for "faith" to refer to "believed" in Hebrew, making this Greek word ambiguous for two different Hebrew words. Given Paul's revelation about the use of "faith" in the Greek New Testament to sometimes refer to "belief" instead of "faith", James at the end of the post tells us we are not made right with God by "belief" alone when you understand that the word translated as "faith" is ambiguous for "belief" in the Greek New Testament.
So you corrected the Bible? You did something God didn't do. Are you saying that God did not protect His word, so you had to do it? Did God sit on His hands while translators corrupted His word?
It is, but you can not activate it with works. Faith without a change in one's life is not faith. But you can't breathe life into dead faith by your works.
No, they did not. His actions came from His faith. They were the fruit of His faith. The proof that His faith was real.
No, his actions proved he had faith because he could not and would not have done these works unless he had been saved by faith and lived by faith.
Yes, we believe alone, allowing God to become our intimate Father. This opens up an unbelievable love that motivates us to obey because we desire to not for gain or avoidance of punishment. If we do not love first, our obedience is fake, and we don't know it.
Brother, translators are not guaranteed to be inspired by the Holy Spirit. God guaranties the inspiration of His original word in the original language by the Prophets, but not the many translations into other languages. The correction of the Sabbath from human tradition in the book of Hebrews is a good example where the King James Version (KJV) misidentified "Joshua" before David as "Jesus", forcing the message to seem to refer to the present after Jesus when the original message was about a past mistake in the understanding of the Sabbath by Joshua when they transitioned to a different Sabbath without Manna in the Promised Land. For forty years, when they kept the seventh day with Manna, God tells us in Hebrews that He had punished them not to enter His "day" of rest available since the first week of creation, the Sabbath, which they later entered within the Promised Land at an earlier time than the seventh day of the week. Joshua did not pay any attention to the change from a day of the week from morning to morning, to the evening to evening Sabbath and assumed wrongly that this earlier Sabbath, from evening to evening, was also the seventh day of the week in the Promised Land, overlooking the fact that the days of the week were in the desert from morning to morning for 40 years.
Then, we can chime in and reinterpret the scriptures to fit our beliefs.
So, if you can't read the original geek, you are out of luck. Sorry, I don't buy that. God cares about His word too much to drop the ball on protecting the translations.
My friend. just as Jorge and George are the same name, one in Spanish and the other in English, so are Jesus and Joshua. One is the English name Joshua from the Hebrew Yeshua, and the other is from the Greek translation of Yeshua as Iēsous, from which we get the English Jesus. In other words, Jesus and Joshua are the same name, meaning YHWY is salvation. So, as you can see the KJV was not incorrect. It was just a matter of choosing between the two iterations of the same name.
Since your premise was wrong, this post is wrong. Jesus and Joshua are the same name, only derived from two different languages.
You don't understand scripture as well as you think you do.
That's an outlandish claim.
No, it is great news. My righteousness is Jesus, not myself nor my works. My sanctification is Jesus, not myself or my works. As Paul told the Romans, And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being] Romans 8:30 If He is for me, who can be against me. In him, my righteousness exceeds that of the Pharisees.
Heb 10:14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. Do you merely hum the tune in church when they sing "Blessed Assurance?" This should be good news for you and for everyone.
No, it hasn't. It has been debunked in your imagination but not by scripture. You seem to think that God has a grading system, and if you can manage to get a high enough score, you will make it through the Pearly Gates. What is the standard? 90% and above? How much less than perfect is OK with God?
You should not teach power over sin when you still sin. I have noticed that you will not declare yourself sinless, yet you lay that burden upon others as if you were sinless. God has eradicated my sins, completely destroyed them, and condemned them in the flesh. Even though I am being sanctified, I am counted as perfect for all time because of Christ's Righteousness. He has eradicated yours also if you will grasp His gift by faith.
The difference between a born-again Christian and a sinner is that the born-again Christian knows when he/she sins and hates it, whereas a sinner is unaware of most of their sins and loves them. When we repent, we turn away from sin toward the one we love, but we still have a body of death, and there is still a war in our members. At one time, we loved what we did, but when we are saved sometimes what we want to do we do not do, but what we hate we do. And if we do what we do not want to do, we agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer we who do it, but it is sin living in us.
You don't understand the difference between not sinning and sinlessness? Sinlessness means I would have had to live my entire life without sin, you know, like Jesus. That would make make me God. You either deliberately misunderstand me or your powers of reasoning are sadly lacking.
