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Gary wrote:

> "Bob Felts" wrote in message
> news:7BF72BCF-894E-1989-B15C-832430C80553@srcbs.org...
> > Matthew Johnson wrote:
> >
> >
> > And I'm not sure we every really resolved the question: "why do all men
> > everywhere choose to die?" Why has no one, except for Jesus Christ,
> > obeyed God's commands and thereby inherited eternal life?
> >
> > One answer is that man isn't free, and that therefore the implication of
> > free will through commands simply isn't true.
>
> All men everywhere do not choose to die, if you mean by
> die, eternal death.
>

I meant physical death. All one has to do to live forever is obey the
law.

> Because man is unable to keep the law perfectly, and hence
> obtain eternal life in that way, does not mean that man cannot
> believe the Gospel and be saved.

So why is man unable to keep the law perfectly? Doesn't man have free
will?

>
> Are all men everywhere in all time, in your view, incapable of keep any
> single law even once in their life?

Not relevant. Keeping one single law does not mean one keeps the whole
Law; however, breaking one single law does mean that the whole Law is
broken (Jas 2:10).

> Acts 15:10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of
> the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 11 But we
> believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved,
> even as they.
>

Again, this misses the point. If man has free will, why not go the law
route? Who needs Jesus?

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Paul’s Argument with Peter,
Or was it Peter‘s, and everyone else’s, Argument with Paul?
(It makes a difference. So Paul put it in his terms, as usual.)

Galatians 2:1-21 ISV (mixed with comments)
(1) Then fourteen years later I again went up to Jerusalem with
Barnabas, taking Titus with me.
(2) I went in response to a revelation, and in a private meeting with
the reputed leaders I set before them the gospel I proclaim among the
gentiles. I did this because I was afraid that I was running or had
run for nothing.

After fourteen years Paul decides to test his gospel with "reputed
leaders" ? And by revelation? Meaning maybe God said it was time he
did that? And, that by saying he "was afraid," he indicates that he
may be unsure of that which just might be possibly be in vain? Isn’t
he an apostle? (Rhetorical questions, all)

Well, it would indicate to Paul’s audience of Paul’s