genuineoriginal
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I doubt we'd have a same understanding of the actual sense of Romans 2.
For without the actual sense of Rom. 1:18-3:20; all sorts of misunderstandings arise as to what the Apostle Paul is actually talking about as to who, when, were, why, and how.
Romans 2:11-15 11 For there is no respect of persons with God. 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another; ) |
The law we establish is the same law that the Gentiles show when they do by nature the things contained in the law.
I am not under the law because I have the law written in the Bible to refer to "for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3:16).
I am not under the law because I have the law put in my heart and written in my mind (Hebrews 10:16).
I am not under the law because I am a doer of the word and not just a hearer (James 1:22).
This law, the law of the spirit (Romans 8:2), contains all the righteousness of the law written in the Torah, but is from the New Covenant and not the Old Covenant.
Jeremiah 31:31-34 31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. |
Did God put His law in your inward parts and write it in your heart?
Or do you claim you are lawless because you are under Grace?