Of course it's preconceived beliefs that you're trying to promote. You conceived of the idea before you started the thread!
God said the Law was for a continuous set of generations, as opposed to being for a single generation. But the implication was not an "eternal" Law. Rather, it was a *continuous* Law, until it was resolved.
Sin is the transgression of the law.
You couldn't be more wrong. We are always determined righteous by our obedience, and not by our disobedience. Our righteousness, however, does not obtain Eternal Life apart from our abiding in Christ. And so, all our righteousness comes, in the New Testament, from abiding in Christ. That way we are deemed righteous, and also obtain eternal life.
Paul was arguing not that he was obeying the Law. Rather, he was showing that NT obedience to Christ is the *fulfillment* of the Law!
Psalm 119:89: States that God's word is eternal and stands firm in the heavens.
Yes, Sin had been defined for Israel while they were under the Law by their transgression against the Law. The Law was God's Word to them, and defying that Law was therefore sin for them.
You are suggesting that the Law of Moses is eternal. It is not. It was determined by God's eternal word to be temporary. Eternal redemption was never meant to come by the blood of goats and sheep, bulls, etc. Rather, eternal redemption was said, by the word of God, to come by Christ's sacrifice.
No, by our faith.
You are assuming there is a contradiction between being righteous by obedience and being righteous by faith. There is no contradiction! Obedience is a response in faith to God's living word. When He speaks to our heart, or conscience, we obey. Unless we believed He was speaking to us, we wouldn't obey. But because we believe His word is real, we obey and are thus justified both by obedience and by faith.
The law defines sin, period.
Romans 5:1
So by "period" you mean you are not concerned to answer any of the points I made? I showed you an important element in the argument, but you don't care to respond. Your choice....
What's your point?
God doesn't change. But God said the Law would change to a New Covenant.
Actually, the Law went out from Israel at Pentecost. But it may very well go out again from Israel when God recovers that nation at Christ's Coming?
Some Christians may be surprised to learn that the doctrine of justification by faith is not only found in the New Testament but in the Old Testament. Genesis tells us that Abraham, in response to God’s promise, “believed the LORD, and it was counted to him as righteousness” (Gen. 15:6). Job sought to justify himself before God and in the end renounced his own righteousness (e.g., Job 32:2; 42:1–6). David was a man after God’s own heart, and yet he speaks of the blessing of justification apart from works: “Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered” (Ps. 32:1); “Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you” (Ps. 143:2). Isaiah prophesies that the servant of the Lord will “make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities” (Isa. 53:11)
Yes, part of our obedience is accepting Christ's atonement, which gives us both justification and peace. But obedience to Christ is, in fact, "righteousness!"
I'm not surprised by OT justification since I've been sharing on this for some time. OT justification, though similar to NT justification in principle, is actually only a *temporary* justification.
Actually, no, he doesn't say that. He says a new covenant,
So we agree then.
No, God voided the Old Covenant in Jer 31.31 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
Actually, this was just a prophecy that Israel would fail to follow the Old Covenant of Law in their heart, and that a New Covenant would have to come that they would successfully follow as a nation. That will be fulfilled at Christ's Coming.
