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Bart Goddard wrote:
> gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote:
>
>>In my mind there is a vast (no infinite) difference between keeping
>>this commandment, (or the keeping of any commandment perfectly),
>>and God telling us in the gospel,
>
>
> That's not the difference I pointed up. I said that I can't
> tell the difference between having faith and obeying the 1st
> Commandment. Obeying the 1st Commandment IS having faith.
> I'm challenging you to differentiate between these two
> actions of man. Your response is to differentiate between
> an action of man and an action of God.

Well, Bart, we are on completely different "levels" then.

IF saving faith is the same as obeying the 1st commandment then I don't
have saving faith. But then again, in my estimation, I have never met a
single person who has kept the 1st commandment. I know that Jesus kept
it but I know I don't.

Further the 1st commandment has no promise in it. Further again, all
"faith" is not the same. There is saving faith, and other kinds of faith.

In my mind, saving faith is believing such as the following:

John 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is
the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life
through his name.

I see faith not as doing something like keeping the 1st or any other
commandment, but rather, as receiving what God offers freely in the
gospel, by taking Him at His word, i.e., believing what He has said.

Gary

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mrhodes_47@earthlink.net wrote:

> 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.)

Scholarship? Or is it just the musings of an untrained
intellect? (It makes a difference.)



> he indicates that he

> Well, it would indicate to Paul’s audience

> I only see arguing and separation. A

> Oh, courageous, dramatic, warrior Paul.

> (I think I can l

> We don’t know what from.

> Paul’s stubbornness, likely.

> Paul is the only one I’ve heard make this statement.

> but apparently

> The apparent lack of friendship

> I sincerely doubt that;

> I don't know who

> I have difficulty believing

> So I believe

> Here Paul seems

> And therefore probably

> I refuse to believe

Truly, the words of s