In that case answer this question. Has anyone (other than Jesus) kept even the first commandment to love the Lord our God with all our heart and all our soul, and all our mind? That doesn't mean sometimes. It means all the time.
Waiting for that answer. . . . .
Someone already beat me to the question, but I will repeat it because it's just that important:
- "Can you keep even the first commandment?"
Again, the very first command is, "You shall have no other gods before me."
Of course people other than Jesus have kept it, though not perfectly.
Pointless? Is that defining God by humanity? God's commands come from God himself, who he is, as our creator and who created us in his image and likeness. As bearers of his image we are to be morally perfect just as he is. There is nothing pointless about it. It is perfect.
It is the law of God, his commandments that show us how far we have fallen, how helpless we are to rectify the situation, and drive us to Christ who rectified it for us by what?-----his perfect righteousness and giving himself as a ransom, bearing our penalty on his body on the cross. Making it possible to impute his righteousness to those who are united with him through faith. Grace, grace, and grace.
Keeping God law doesn't save anyone. All sin and fall short....or do you not sin?
God created us in His image and likeness, so we are able to be in His likeness by being doers of His character traits in accordance with the example of obedience to God's law that Christ set for us to follow. Purpose of God's law revealing our sin is to lead us to repent and back to obedience to it. Christ saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so Christ graciously teaching us to be a doer of it is intrinsically the way that he is giving us his gift of saving us from not being a doer of it.
In Titus 2:11-13, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so doing those works in obedience to God's law has absolutely nothing to do with trying to earn our salvation as the result, but rather God graciously teaching us to be a doer of it is part of His gift of salvation. In Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith.
While the only way for someone to become righteous is through faith, what it means for someone to become righteous is for them to become a doer of righteous works in obedience to God's law, which is why the same faith by which we are declared righteous apart from works does not abolish our need to be a doer a of righteous works in obedience to God's law (Romans 3:27-31). In other words, everyone who has faith will be declared righteous and everyone who has faith is a doer of God's law, which is how Paul can deny in Romans 4:1-5 that we can earn our righteousness as the result of our works while also holding the position in Romans 2:13 that only the doers of the law will be declared righteous.
For example, God's law contains instructions in regard to having a period or to giving birth, so I can't keep those laws because I don't meet the condition of being a woman, but that doesn't mean that those laws are beyond the ability women to obey.
