Yet that's exactly what you do, preaching a false gospel of works,
It is never ever wrong to obey God; in fact, if you don't obey Him you won't get saved.
something a person is required to do or perform in order to get himself saved... such as believing, receiving, calling upon the name of the Lord, etc.
Jesus saves us all on his own, and he tells us he saves those who believe and obey him.
Calvinists don't know why God saves those He saves.
Faith only doctrine is also false, it fails to admit that believing is obeying Jesus. The faith only crowd says that doing anything else Jesus says will make you condemned for a works salvation.
Both Calvinists and faith only teachers misunderstand the scriptures and they distort the truth.
Is it reasonable to teach we cannot believe and obey? No, it is not.
Paul was speaking about the works of the law no longer saving.
That means it no longer saves to clean oneself by doing the ceremonial works, for FAITH alone cleans us. That does NOT mean we do not have to do anything else that Jesus says to do, it merely means you do not have to do all the purification/ceremonial works.
However, the Apostle Paul preached that Salvation is according to the Power of God:
2 Tim. 1:8-9
8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began
So being Saved has nothing to do with our works, but it was God who Legally Saved His Elect from the penalty and condemnation of sin and its consequences Rom. 4:8.
Again, Paul is speaking about the ceremonial works of the law.
The Jews were called God's people because they did the ceremonial works, they cleaned themselves just to be able to go to the tent and later the temple, just to worship God, just to be where His Spirit was.
But since Jesus' shed blood on the cross, faith in his blood cleans us and circumcision no longer does; and, we become the temple.
But the natural man, such as yourself can't receive the True Gospel of God's Grace even though the scriptures consistently bear its Testimony, simply because you are unable to grasp that those Christ Saved were reconciled to God while being His enenies!
The scripture about a natural man can't receive the truth is because a natural man means a man who ONLY wants to please his flesh.
Someone who only wants to please their flesh does not want to hear about repenting of sins and giving up those pleasing things for God.
So you see, being Saved wasn't by anything they did or didn't do, but because they were already Saved while they were being God's enemies Rom. 5:10.
Then why not everyone saved?
You don't understand the scriptures about being saved while enemies. Paul is explaining to the Gentiles that God did not make them get circumcised first before He would save them. The Gentiles were enemies to God because they would not do the ceremonial work of circumcision.
Colossians 2:13 When you were dead in your sins and in the
uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,
That's the Gospel of the Power of God!
1 Cor. 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
The prerequisite to Believing the Truth of God's Word is to be Chosen 2 Thes. 2:13 and in time being Born of the Spirit!
God does NOT save unbelievers and those who hate Him. We are not saved before we are saved.
Rom. 8:8-9
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.
Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Those of the flesh is about those who only want to please their flesh. Not everyone only wants to please their flesh.
