Satan is the instigator of religion. He knew that if he could get God's created man to sin, that sinful man would try to get back in favor with God by the works of the law, which is religion. Fallen man is trying to return to the Garden of Eden by the works of the law, which is religion.
Satan told Eve that if she would eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that she would be as God, knowing good from evil. Genesis 3:5. She and Adam bought the devils lie and brought a curse upon all of humanity.
Paul wrote, "Therefore by the deeds of the law (religion) there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law (religion) is the knowledge of sin, Romans 3:20.
What is the law? The law is the nature and the character of God. If one wants to know what the law is like, Jesus was God's law incarnate in human flesh, Romans 3:21. Jesus was perfect God and perfect man in one person. If one is going to fulfill the law by their obedience to the law, they will have to be not like Christ, they will have to be Christ. Jesus is not only God's law incarnate in human flesh, he is the epitome of the God's law.
The law is not just a bunch of laws and rules. The law is one body. James said that if you fail in one point of the law, you have failed the whole thing, James 2:10, and you have become a transgressor of the law, which is a sinner. Once you have become a sinner, you will remain a sinner. Obedience does not change the fact that you have failed to keep the law. Once a sinner always a sinner. Nothing is going to change the fact that you have failed to keep the law, not even repentance. Repentance does not change the fact that you failed to keep the law, nor will repentance save you. If that were true Christ died in vain. Teaching that repentance saves is anti-Gospel and anti-Christ.
You can stuff your mouth with wafers and drown yourself drinking gallons of grape juice, that is not going to change the fact that you are a sinner. Remember once a sinner, always a sinner. Religion will not save anyone. Paul said, "For as many as are under the works of the law (religion) are under a curse: for it is written, "Cursed is everyone that does not do all of the things written in the book of the law to do them" Galatians 3:10. The law calls for perfection. no one has what is required to fulfill the law, except for Jesus Christ. He fulfilled the law and he fulfilled it perfectly for us.
"To declare, I say, at this time HIS righteousness; that he might be just, and the JUSTIFIER of him that believes in Jesus" Romans 3:26.
Satan told Eve that if she would eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that she would be as God, knowing good from evil. Genesis 3:5. She and Adam bought the devils lie and brought a curse upon all of humanity.
Paul wrote, "Therefore by the deeds of the law (religion) there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law (religion) is the knowledge of sin, Romans 3:20.
What is the law? The law is the nature and the character of God. If one wants to know what the law is like, Jesus was God's law incarnate in human flesh, Romans 3:21. Jesus was perfect God and perfect man in one person. If one is going to fulfill the law by their obedience to the law, they will have to be not like Christ, they will have to be Christ. Jesus is not only God's law incarnate in human flesh, he is the epitome of the God's law.
The law is not just a bunch of laws and rules. The law is one body. James said that if you fail in one point of the law, you have failed the whole thing, James 2:10, and you have become a transgressor of the law, which is a sinner. Once you have become a sinner, you will remain a sinner. Obedience does not change the fact that you have failed to keep the law. Once a sinner always a sinner. Nothing is going to change the fact that you have failed to keep the law, not even repentance. Repentance does not change the fact that you failed to keep the law, nor will repentance save you. If that were true Christ died in vain. Teaching that repentance saves is anti-Gospel and anti-Christ.
You can stuff your mouth with wafers and drown yourself drinking gallons of grape juice, that is not going to change the fact that you are a sinner. Remember once a sinner, always a sinner. Religion will not save anyone. Paul said, "For as many as are under the works of the law (religion) are under a curse: for it is written, "Cursed is everyone that does not do all of the things written in the book of the law to do them" Galatians 3:10. The law calls for perfection. no one has what is required to fulfill the law, except for Jesus Christ. He fulfilled the law and he fulfilled it perfectly for us.
"To declare, I say, at this time HIS righteousness; that he might be just, and the JUSTIFIER of him that believes in Jesus" Romans 3:26.
