Now for one to say that they uphold the law and yet are breakers of the law, is lawlessness.
Which are you, an upholder of the law, or a breaker of the law?
If you say an upholder of the law, then you are a hypocritical liar according to your own doctrine. If you say a breaker of the law then you have a faith that James says can not save you. Take your pick.
No as Paul taught in clear terms, one must die to the law, and live not by the standard of the written code but by the standard of faith and love.
The standard of faith and love
IS the law...and then some. Or do you want to argue that 'do not covet', 'do not steal', 'do not commit adultery', etc. are NOT the standard of faith and love? I ask this so others can see how wrong what you teach is.
Only when a "born-again" believer accepts that they cannot keep the letter are they free to walk in the Spirit.
...which in turn (walking in the Spirit)
upholds the law.
That's how we can tell if we have really been walking in the Spirit. There is no such thing as walking in the Spirit that breaks the law, 'do not covet', 'do not steal', etc. Unless you can explain to me how you can walk in the Spirit and violate a moral law of Moses.
For as we see the law "written code" produces sinful desires in the flesh.
For one, the law does not
produce sinful desires. It
magnifies them. And, for purposes of our discussion, it does that when you seek to be justified by the law, NOT when you uphold the law by faith.
Those who look to the written code are always found to be sinners by that written standard.
Those who walk in the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, etc.) have the evidence of upholding the requirements of the law to validate that they are really doing that. But somehow the only 'looking to the written code' you seem to be able to believe exists is the effort of trying to be justified (MADE righteous) by the law.
Thus they are always cursed children as 2 Pet 2:14 says.
"Having eyes full of adultry"
How silly. Not all people who sin are cursed children. What are you when you sin?
Sin can only condemn the inner man when sin is a result of rejecting the blood of Christ that bought them, not when the outer man is weak, but the inner man is still holding fast to the hope of the forgiveness of God in the blood of Christ. The failure of the hypocrites in your favorite passage is their sin of
rejecting the blood of Christ (2 Peter 2:1), not simply sinning in weakness. But how could you understand, you who are so strong and not subject to the weakness of temptation and can only see all sin as the attempt to be justified by law keeping.
For the strength of sin, is the law.
Law is the authority of sin to condemn the person outside of Christ. But it can't do that for the person who stands legally guilt free before God (aka, justified) through faith in the blood of Christ. That's what it means to not be 'under the (authority of the) law' anymore.
For those made righteous in God's sight through faith, sin can only bring judgment
in regard to the flesh. Somewhere you're going to have to expand your understanding to recognize the difference and stop this ridiculous thinking that all sin is categorically the result of trying to be justified by the law.
