genuineoriginal
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You are dodging the issue.Actually, in Romans 1:18 through 3:20 the Apostle Paul is laying out a history of various of God's revealing of His will and or expectations of man in progressively clearer and clearer revelations, and man's having only continued to fall short of God's mark, ending with His revelation of a much fuller picture of His expected will of man towards Him: The Law.
You are misunderstanding the quote about the just (righteous) shall live by faith (their faithfulness).That out of the way, he returns back to the issue of the Glory of the Son's work ALONE that he began all that with, way back in...
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Paul was saying we establish (stand by) the law by our behaviour, and that God forbids making the law void (abolished) by our beliefs.justification can only be by faith and not by anyone's behaviours, or lack thereof):
3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Original Sin is a heresy that Augustine brought into Christianity from Manichaeism.Man sins because he is a sinner; he is not a sinner because he sins.
The Bible clearly teaches that man is a sinner because he sins.
A person does not murder because he is a murderer, a person is a murderer because he commits murder.
Without relying on the heresy of Original Sin, your statement is meaningless.Romans 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
In other words, it is not man's behaviour that is the issue, rather his identity - the fact of his having been born in Adam compels a rebellion in him.
However Paul was clear that it is your behavior that is the issue:
Romans 6:16 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? |
This is clearly not an identity issue.
Since there is no such thing as the "sin identity", there is also no such thing as the "homosexual identity".In this, homosexuality, the Identity, is nothing more than the natural manifestation of the Sin Identity, in some.
Homosexual behavior is deemed by God to be deserving of the harshest punishment in the Bible, death, along with adultery and murder.
I see that you have a distorted view of the Bible because of the teaching of Dispensationalism.In other words, within that Economy
Just like the Pharisee pointing out the publican and saying "Thank you God for not making me like him," Dispensationalists are always pointing to the people they claim are in a different Dispensation (Economy) and saying "Thank you God for not making me like them."
Not at all.In short, you'll have to find some other means of asserting your argument.
The overwhelming message of the Bible is that God judges us by our actions, not by our identity.