Sinners do not owe God to pay for their own debt then?
Confusion on just what is PSA
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by JonC, Dec 18, 2017.
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One problem here is you keep looking as if Jesus came to obey the Law rather than to fulfill it. The Law itself bears witness to Christ - not the other way around. -
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In other words, Jesus did not come to obey the law so that His perfect law-keeping could be attributed to us. Instead Jesus is the righteousness of God manifest apart from the Law as the Law and prophets bear witness to Christ.
Likewise, the Law was not a set of rules we had to obey in order to merit righteousness. Paul makes this very clear when he explains that the purpose of the Law was not to justify but to magnify to mankind their own sinfulness. -
And if Jesus ever failed one time to not perfectly keep the law, was he still qualified to be messiah? -
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What verses do you find that place men under a "covenant of works" in terms of reconciliation to God? -
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But where is this "covenant of works" spoken of? -
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Romans 2:26. 'Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements [Gk. dikaioma] of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?' But of course, there is no one, circumcised or not, who keeps these requirements, which is why the Lord Jesus had to come and suffer and die in the place of sinners.
Colossians 2:14. '.....Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements [Gk. dogma] that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.'
Romans 8:4. 'That the righteous requirements [Gk. dikaioma) might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.'
I should also add that He pays our 'sin debt' on the cross. We pray, 'forgive us our debts' (Matthew 6:12), and surely the parable of the unjust servant makes no sense unless the vast debt forgiven is our sins?
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How does it do this? Because the "Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good" and men are not.
Is there a reason that you believe the law that God gave to Adam in the form of a commandment, one he transgressed, served a different purpose than the Law God gave to Israel, the one they transgressed?
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