And Peter put his stamp of approval on Paul's writings calling them scripture...
The "tradition" is based upon scripture...Deut. 6:4
2nd Tim 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
That would be wrong. We live our faith because of our salvation.
In the Protestant Church infant baptism is more of a dedication. There is no removal, infusion or salvation in it.
I'm in Jesus' womb???
Mary was a virgin chosen by God to give birth to Jesus. She was blessed because of that. In fact Mary needed her own son to die on the cross for her sins.
No.
Nor quite sure what all of that means...but, probably.
How do Christians live their faith? I'll take a guess, imitate Jesus and obey His commandment to love your neighbor. Put another way: faith working through love. But how do you love your neighbor? Perhaps the corporal works of mercy?
These are difference in beliefs. Catholics and many Protestant denominations believe otherwise. If those that believe in baptism are wrong, it doesn't matter. No one is destined for the hot place for beliefs that ultimately don't matter.
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 the Mosaic Law, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this is what it means to be under grace, and this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith. Likewise, in Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to walk in His way that he and Israel might know Him, in 1 Kings 2:1-3, God taught how to walk in His way through the Mosaic Law, and in John 17:3, eternal life is knowing God and Jesus, which is again salvation by grace through faith.
In Galatians 3:26-29, every aspect of being in children of God (1), in Christ (2), through faith (3), and children of Abraham and heirs to the promise (4) is directly connected with living in obedience to the Mosaic Law. In 1 John 3:4-10, those who do not practice righteousness in obedience to the Mosaic Law are not children of God (1). In 1 John 2:6, those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked, and he walked in obedience to the Mosaic Law, which again is why I said that obedience to it is the way to be unified with Christ (2). In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Mosaic Law (3). In John 8:39, Jesus said that if they were children of Abraham then they would be doing the same works as him, and the works that they were instructed to do were in obedience to the Mosaic Law (4).
Indeed, God's righteousness is eternal (Psalms 119:142), therefore all of God's righteous laws are also eternal (Psalms 119:160), not just ten of them. The Bible often uses the same terms to describe aspects of God's nature as it does to describe aspects of the nature of God's law, such as with it being holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12), which is because it is God's instructions for how to know Him through acting in accordance with those aspects of His nature, so the fact that God's nature is eternal means that any instructions that God has given for how to act in accordance with His nature are eternally valid.
Believing in Christ is not something other than believing in Christ, so your criticism falls flat.
Doing good works in obedience to God's law is testifying about God's goodness, which is why our good works bring glory to Him (Matthew 5:16) and are not about establishing our own goodness. Likewise, doing righteous works in obedience to God's law is testifying about God's righteousness, not about establishing our own. Self-righteous works do not involve relying on anyone else, so it is contradictory to think that we can become self-righteous by relying on what God has instructed. If God's law were His instructions for how to become self-righteous and God does not want us to do that, then it would follow that God therefore does not want to be obeyed, which is absurd considering that all throughout the Bible He wanted His people to repent and to return to obedience to His law, therefore it is not God's instructions for how to become self-righteous.
Christians demonstrate their faith in many way...you mentioned a few of them.
That would depend upon what they believe baptism does.
Everyone is destined "for the hot place"....we all fall short...the wages of sin is death. It is Jesus and only Jesus whom we can put our faith in to pay the price for our selves...trust in Jesus alone. Through Jesus' death on the cross He was the sacrificial atonement and died in our place so we can have our sins imputed to Jesus and His righteousness imputed to us.
@donadams was referring to salvation, not to sanctification. Even our 'best righteousness' according to the law falls woefully short when compared to Christ's righteousness, that was my point. So do we throw up our hands and ask "Why? Why try to be righteous?...until we realize that as regenerate saints, that it is God who is working in us both to will and do of His good pleasure. (Phil 2:12-13)
Obedience to God's law has nothing to do with trying to have a righteousness that is good enough. Every righteous action testifies about God's righteousness, so there is no righteousness apart from the nature of who God is. God did not give His law for the purpose of teaching us how bring glory to ourselves, but for the purpose of teaching us how to bring glory to Him.
The purpose of the law was to bring us to Christ. Now, in Christ we have died to the law and alive to another that we may bear fruit for God. (Rom 7:4). We 'become righteous' and bear fruit totally due to His grace and not our 'works.
In Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to walk in His way that he and Israel might know Him, and in Matthew 7:23, Jesus said that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so the purpose of the law is to lead us to Christ by teaching us how to know him, which is eternal life (John 17:3). The purpose of the law is not to lead us to Christ so that we can then reject what he taught and go back to living in sin.
Grace is a gift and gifts can't be earned, so grace is incompatible with works insofar as they are done to earn a wage, however, there are many other reasons for doing works that are in accordance with grace, which is why there are also many verses that connect grace and works. For example, 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, and the same with Exodus 33:13. In Genesis 6:8-9, Noah found grace in the eyes of God, he was a righteous man, and he walked with God, so God was gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law and he was righteous because he obeyed through faith. In Romans 1:5, we have received grace in order to bring about the obedience of faith. 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 God graciously teaching us to do those works is part of the content of His gift of salvation.
Yes, there are many ways to live our faith.
Orthodoxy (and it is only fair to add, also the Roman Catholics and Anglo-Catholics) has always held to baptismal regeneration. In other words, that spiritual life begins with baptism.
I think that is a negative way to describe a religion of love. In 1 Corinthians 13:13 Paul says, “Three things will last forever: faith, hope, and love - and the greatest of these is love. But that is just my opinion.
I agree
Scripture is part of the tradition
