If the standard is God Himself, we are all going to hell.
The Law reflects God's Holy, Righteous Nature. The only Person who could obey every aspect of the Law is the Son of God. And He did. He fulfilled the very Word(s) He gave to Moses to give to the children of Israel.
Jesus can never make us God. Impossible to do because as Isaiah said, "There is ONLY ONE God, there is NONE like Him, He gives His glory to NO ONE.
There is ONLY ONE God. The Only Person who can stand before a Holy, Righteous God is a Holy, Righteous Son. This is why I believe along with other important truths, that God created man sinful, or as Strong defines the word "sin" as "missing the mark." What is the "mark missed?"
The glory of God, or the glory
that is God.
Saul said in Romans 7, "The Law is spiritual." This is why it killeth. Because man is unatoned flesh. But once we become born again by the Spirit, we become spiritual beings, and the Law can no longer kill us. But to the unatoned it will kill them. They remain body and soul, the same way they were born into the world, and unless converted, cast into "hell" (Matt. 10:28.) In its original form the Law is not death. It cannot be. It comes from God who is Life. It is only its effect upon man who is flesh.
I think the Law is the Law. According to Paul, the Law is how we know the God's standard.
Apparently you don't understand what a standard is.
There are several meanings to the word but the one that is applicable is "measure" or "rule."
Wow. Um... no. That command became a law, a standard, set by God. As long as Adam did not violate that "law" that "command", then Adam was not a sinner. He did not shoot and miss the mark.
Thou shalt not eat of it, thou shalt not kill. What God says is Law. When God says, "bear no longer any figs" it is done. Adam was created sinful because there is only ONE God. Anything God creates will be by default be sinful, oir less than God. Even if man was not created and God stopped after creating heaven and earth, both heaven and earth will degenerate into chaos, which is the prevailing science today. The Law of entropy. Everything breaks down. Everything dies. Even man.
The serpent shows that it took temptation in order to get Eve to sin. Why? They were both innocent in the ways of the world. They did not know what sin was. Adam didn't realize he was naked when God gave the command, but the moment that he sinned his eyes were opened.
Let me guess. The serpent to you is Lucifer or Satan, right? That would be impossible since the angels that sinned were locked up (2 Peter 2:4.) And they weren't locked up because these sinful spirit beings grew penises, had the right DNA which they didn't ("after
their kind") entered holy matrimony, and married physical women and had children. Such a false belief is very problematic. The angels, also a creation, were created sinful like the man and iniquity was found in their heart and even before they could act to ascend into heaven God dealt with them immediately and locked them up before man was created.
So missing the bullseye at an archery tournament has to come from somewhere? Where are you getting these ideas that are foreign to scripture. Adam did not sin until he ate the fruit.
Sin comes from sinner. Isaiah says God created evil; He created darkness. Sin had to come from somewhere. It didn't materialize out of nowhere. It was already in existence in creation because again, there is only ONE God. But from your response you believe we are sinners because we sin. Holding to this false belief destroys the Doctrine of Imputation. In other words, 2 Cor. 5:21 is void. It is not our acts that are sinful, but our created sinful 'less than God' nature. It doesn't say in 2 Cor. 5:21, "He became the sinful acts of man that we may be made the righteous acts of God in Christ." This leaves the sin nature intact. No, it says, "He became sin that we might be made the [actual] righteousness of God." If our sinful nature is not converted from sinful to holiness, then we are still sinners on our way to heaven. How preposterous is that!
That is why creation was not corrupted, was "very good", using God's standard to say "very good", until Adam sinned.
Gentile theology. "Federal head." The word "good" merely means "good enough" or "to specification." In other words, after God created something, He was pleased with the outcome and says, "it is good to my specification."
There is no moral aspect to this Hebrew word. We say the same thing as when a recipe is followed to specification, and it is good, good enough.
This does not at all fit what Paul taught.
Actually the name is I Am that I Am. Names define who we are. God was defining Himself to the Jews by using Himself. Why? There was no possible way for the Jews to comprehend, much less understand who God is.
Babies that grow up eat meat and know what chicken tastes like unless they were never fed chicken. And the philosophy behind being a 'vegan' is a lie. It's a deception. Like the theology that man was created with the Nature or Deific Attributes of God like holiness or sinlessness. It's all a lie.
And they are the standard by which we are to live. To miss this standard is to sin. To explain it best, this is the reason why scripture says that if you break any point of the law, you are guilty of breaking it all.
Adam didn't need to sin to be a sinner. By virtue of his creation, he was already sinful. It says, By one man sin entered," it doesn't say, "by the act of sin, sin entered." "From Adam until Moses sin was in the world." It doesn't say, When Adam sinned then sin was in the world."
No. No. No. No. No. That is not how it works. It stands as a standard. As long as Adam does not eat of the fruit, he is hitting bullseyes. That is, he is not a sinner. He is not missing the bullseye. He does not become someone who misses the bullseye UNTIL he misses the bullseye. I mean... common sense.
Typical false Gentile theology void of any biblical truth. I used to believe that crap until Scripture contradicted that theology. I chose Scripture. The alternative is to choose the false theology of Gentiles then make the Scripture fit that narrative. Democrats, liberals, radical liberals, even liberals in the Gentile church fellowship during the mid-to-late 1800s taught that false theology. Then, in the 1920s the Dallas Theological Seminary was founded to challenge all those liberal teachings of the north that found its way into the Gentile churches in America. This why our American universities all produce radical liberals. At one time universities and colleges in this country were founded by Christians and the faculty were Christians. But liberals began to take up presidencies and liberals ousted Christian leaderships and took over their campuses. The same thing occurred in the Gentile churches. Liberalism took over. Unsaved men took over Christian schools and changed them from God-honoring places of learning to Godless places of chaos and antichristian thought. You've been infected by their false theology and influenced to the point that when Scripture contradicts your beliefs, you make the Scripture to fit your narrative. Even to the point that if you can't twist Scripture or explain it away, you reject it outright.
Okay, it is Anglican, which is the same as being Catholic. You notice how the word baptism is there? You know why that word exists right?
Anglican when it was led by Protestants after Henry VIII was purely Protestant, not Catholic. In England there were many wars between Protestants and Catholics. If England was Catholic, there would not have been the seven years' war or the hundred years war. But eventually liberal Catholicism won out and the Reformation lost out. There were even battles within the Reformation between Presbyterians and Congregationalists and Independents. The English Civil War was fought between Presbyterians and Anglicans who were at that time influenced by Catholicism and its own self-importance. But what happened in Europe led to Christians from the Reformation coming to American shores. But in time even American Christianity was corrupted as the struggle between Arminianism and Calvinism dragged on until Arminianism won the day and the churches in this country have all been infected with "accept Jesus into your heart" and "just confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead/grave, and you will be saved," and other false theologies.
The Gentile churches in the world will never recover and do you know why? Because God has no covenant with Gentiles as He does with Israel and even though Israel has sinned in her past, God has preserved this people through enormous challenges to their existence. God will preserve Israel, even send two witnesses to them in the near future to restore their sight and take their leadership ABOVE all the nations of the earth. God has no plans to preserve Gentiles. Soon, an antichrist and false prophet will lead them, and we'll see which side Christ fights alongside with when He returns.
Jew or Gentile.