You are an enemy of the Lord Jesus Christ because you tell anyone who will listen that He was wrong when He told the Jews who lived under the law that those who "believe" and nothing more are saved:
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life" (Jn.6:47).
According to you "faith" alone was not sufficient to save those who lived under the law and the Lord's "words" were in themselves insufficient to bring them spirital life even though He said the following to them:
"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life" (Jn.6:63).
You talk big but when it comes to giving us your interpretation of the meaning of these two verses you run and hide.
Why is that?
You’re not listening. They’re trying to expound the truth to you.
The Abrahamic Covenant of faith was Unilateral and Unconditional. The Mosaic Covenant of the Law was Bilateral and Conditional. And the Mosiac Law was not merely codification, but was promissory. The “Ten Commandments” weren’t actually commands at all. They were “The Ten Words”, whereby all those who adhered to the Abrahamic Covenant had specific promises.
There was no emphatic used, so Exodus would better read like this is translation:
You’re not going to have any other God’s before me (because I’ve given you the faith).
You’re not going to kill or steal or bear false witness or covet (because I’ve given you the faith).
“Thou shalt not” is not primariy or exclusively a prohibition, but was a promissory statement to all who adhered to the Abrahamic Covenant.
The “keeping” of the Law was by faith, and was more about being kept by God through faith as a sheep are kept safe when bedded down by the briars and thorns the shepherd/s put around them for protection. The Mosaic Law was for protection by promise, not a prescribed course of action to save them by their own works.
The same is true of the Gospel which fulfilled the temporary form of covenant that was the Law. Nothing we have done or can do will save us, now or ever. No keeping of ordinances or actions contribute one thing to our salvation, which is wrought in Christ alone by His finished work on the cross and its imputation and ascription to us and on our behalf.
Faith is a noun that has believing in it, so faith is going to be accompanied by works. But one cannot judge by outer appearances what the source of the works is. The good works could all be sin. There could be corrupt works that don’t represent the saving faith that is in the hearts of Believers. Outer appearances are deceptive, and works of the Law don’t save.
The works of faith will be inevitable, but cannot be determined by constantly assessing outward appearances. The promise of the authentic Gospel is that the righteousness and finished work of Christ is sufficient, and none of our own works can atone for sin (the condition).
Repentance and confession are nouns before they can be verbs as action coming from those sources. If someone has been granted repentance from their sin condition, then no amount of external human judgment of their works is going to matter.
Sin is not sinS. The condition is not the resulting actions from acting as sinning. All who are saved have had their sin atoned. SinS are the residue of the old man, and none of us are going to be rid of all of those actions on this side of glory.
You’re conflating the works of the Law with the works of faith, and the former will never save anyone. Only faith saves, though the guarantee is that the noun of faith will produce works on some scale with the promise that no works of the flesh will remain after final judgment.
You preach a false Gospel and don’t know what Law is as covenant that is fulfilled in Christ.
