Image of God - or image of Adam?

[Elijah7777]

Actually I do get your point. It is written: "You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace."

We are to follow the law. Even the grace of God does a work in us to help us to be Holy and Sanctified before God. Clearly we are to turn away from our sin and live right before God.

In Romans 4:6, Paul references David’s words to emphasize that righteousness comes apart from works—through faith. He draws from the Psalms, particularly passages that highlight God's law and the way believers are justified before Him.

Scholars note that Paul’s doctrine of justification by faith is deeply rooted in the Psalms, where righteousness is tied to faithfulness to God. David himself understood this, as seen in his writings about God's mercy and covenant faithfulness.

 

[Elijah7777]

That's because you failed to detect the false premise, which blames God for all the evil in the world. The right question is, how the government, put in place to deter evil, allows so much evil; and how the church, put in place to convict evil, allows so much evil.

Evil is the ABSENCE of goodness Evil is the ABSENCE of goodness, like darkness the absence of light, cold the absence of heat, vacuum the absence of air. Billy Graham's daughter was once asked, how God could allow this horrific bloody school shooting, she explained that the school had kicked God out by banning prayer and removing the ten commandments in the campus, therefore God had never "allowed" it, the school administration allowed it.

 

[Elijah7777]

Many will say to Me in that day,

The word "Many" usually means two thirds of the people in the church. That is a lot. There is a price to pay in Holiness and Sanctification if we want to be used by God.