However, Jesus (God) made choices. Rom. 6:13-16; I Peter 1:13-16; Rom. 12:1-2, etc. does link holiness/rigtheousness with obedience.
No they don't, and there lies your ignorance of the Bible and of God. Your god, resembles that of the Mormon god, not the Biblical God.
You would have people believe that the ground that Moses approached was "holy" because it chose to be. This speaks to your false beliefs, and stupidity. I've already revealed what the word "holy" means. It's not my definition. It is the definition that is rooted in the meaning of the word since the word has been used. It just doesn't fit your strange and unbiblical theories about your god.
To be "holy" is to be separate from comparison. There is none like God ~ He is Holy. You cannot compare Him to any other. Those in Christ have been made holy, and even though they are separate from the world, from darkness, from sin, from death, etc., they are not separate from Christ or from one another. They are holy. This is what holy means. This is what it has always meant, and your confusion about the term is why everything else you believe is a mess. Until you stop equating the word holy with morality, you will forever be stupid and always saying stupid things.
Rom. 6:13-16 supports my position and makes you look even more foolish.
Starting in verse 12
"Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God."
The relationship with sin has ceased for those in Christ. They are no longer under its control or power. They are no longer its slave. They no longer obey sin. The power of sin is the Law, and they are no longer under the Law. In chapter 5 Paul says sin reigns in death. Believers are now alive in Christ. If they do not consider themselves dead to sin, and alive to God, then they will put themselves back under the Law declaring themselves sinners who obey sin. They go back to presenting the members of their body to a system that proves them a sinner. Instead they are to present themselves to God as what they are... an instrument of righteousness? You cannot be in sin and in Christ? They are alive, not dead.
Verse 14
"For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace"
Sin lost its power in their life, not because they are obeying the Law, but because they have died to it through Christ's sacrifice, and they are now alive in the Spirit, by grace.
Rom 6:15
“What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!”
Paul is now asking if they shall sin. After all, God is not counting their sins against them, because they are no longer under the Law that proves they are sinning. So shall they just go out and sin? False teachers, like you, read this verse and respond to it like this:
“Paul is telling us that we should refrain from sinning. You know, do the best we can, because none of us can stop sinning altogether. But with God’s help, we can certainly give it our best effort”
This mentality is completely foreign to Paul, to the text, and lacks basic logic, reason, and reality. It makes a mockery of the sacrifice of Jesus and His resurrected life. They are either free from sin, dead to sin, or they are not. There is no question that the behaviors may or may not have changed, but even unbelievers can change their behavior, and if that is the evidence that they are free from sin, then unbelievers could make the same claim. They have indwelling sin in their flesh Romans 7. The flesh is insatiable. In it, is coveting of every kind. The flesh practices evil. That is its job. It can do no other. You cannot control the flesh, and it is the height of arrogance to think you can or are. No matter how much you want to, you cannot do what you please.
Again, Paul makes the same statement he did when asked if they would continue in sin. “May it never be!” Is Paul saying, “No, don’t intentionally go out and sin because you are under grace and not under the Law”. Absolutely not! Paul is saying that it will never be. God will not allow it. Why? How can Paul say that it will never be that they sin because they are under grace? The answer is in the next verse:
Rom 6:16
"Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?"
If they are going to return to the system of the Law, then they will be proved a sinner, and a slave to sin, and the result is death. In other words, if sin is to be held to their account, then they have a big problem. If they want to consider themselves alive to sin, then sin is once again their master. If it is them that is sinning, than there is only one result for their obedience to sin, and that is death. Hebrews 10:26-29 really makes this point clear…
“For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain terrifying expectation of judgment, and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?”
In this chapter of Hebrews it is revealed that Jesus is the once for all sacrifice for sin. There is no other sacrifice. It is finished. If they are going to negate His sacrifice and claim that they are continuing to sin, then there is not going to be another sacrifice for their sin. The only thing you would have to look forward to is a terrifying expectation of judgment. Those who were under the Law only needed a couple of witnesses to die without mercy. How much more those who reject the sacrifice of Jesus and call his sacrifice insufficient to take away sin once for all? It is an insult to God’s grace, because they regard His blood as being impure to cleanse them from all sin.
They have been set free from sin. What an insult it is to return to sin and make themselves a slave all over again by attempting to obey the Law for righteousness. What are they going to obey? Sin, resulting in death? Or the Gospel resulting in righteousness? The truth is, if they are in Christ they can’t even become a slave of sin, because they are already dead to sin. However, like the Galatians they can be deceived into walking like they are still under the old slave owner.
1 Peter 1:13-16
Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
Again, being holy means that we are not to be compared with the world. We have come out of the world and are one Spirit with Him. We are joined to Him. We are to conduct ourselves as those who
are holy (separated from the world), not as thoese who are in the world.
Romans 12:1-2
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Again, because of your distortion and rejection that those in Christ have been made holy, righteous, blameless, complete and perfect in Christ, you attribute those things to your self-effort, making you self-righteous and outside the faith. Believers
are holy, separated unto God, and we present our bodies for His purpose, not being conformed to the world, but having already been conformed to Christ
