I just quoted what Paul said about the Pharisees and you rejected his words, along with Jesus and Jeremiah. Choosing instead to take one or two sentences from Paul and use them to make void the rest of the Bible. Why? Because just like the False preachers in Christ's time, the Bible exposes your religion as from man and not from God.
You can't take a couple of sentences from Paul, twist them, then use them to relegate the entire Bible as false and void.
God's Word: Regarding the Pharisees
(Jesus) "But in vain they do worship me, Teaching for Doctrines the Commandments of Men".
(Jesus) "
For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay
them on men's shoulders;"
(Jesus) "Ye are of
your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do."
(Jesus) "My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."
(Jesus) "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make
him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves."
(Jesus) Did not Moses give you the law,
and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
(Jeremiah) Then the LORD said unto me,
The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them:
they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought,
and the deceit of their heart.
(Paul) And
profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation,
being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
(Paul) Because that, when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
(Paul) And c
hanged the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
(Paul)
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
(Paul) For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about
to establish their own righteousness,
have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
(Stephen)
51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers
did, so
do ye.
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the
betrayers and murderers:
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels,
and have not kept it.
(Jeremiah) A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The
prophets prophesy falsely, and
the priests bear rule by their means;
and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
(Pharisees) "
We have a Law, and by
our Law He must die"
Decon's word regarding the Pharisees: "Walking in all of God's Commandments, "Blameless".
I love the Salvation God created. We have millions of people like you and "many" of your friends who push some religious doctrine or religious franchise.
But I don't need a degree from "Moody Bible School", nor do I have to choose between one religion who transgresses the Commandments of God by their church traditions from another religion that transgresses the Commandments of God by their church traditions. I have only to "seek" Jesus and f
ollow His instructions and He let's me know who are His and who are not. That is His Promise, and I believe in Him. And you are living proof that this promise is alive and well today.
What a great and merciful God.
John 14:
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you
another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it
seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20 At that day ye shall know that
I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
21 He that hath my commandments,
and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me
shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and
will manifest myself to him.
22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord,
how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us,
and not unto the world?
23 Jesus answered and said unto him,
If a man love me, he
will keep my words: and my Father
will love him, and
we will come unto him, and
make our abode with him.
24 He that
loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
So Decon, your preaching that the Pharisees were trying to "earn" salvation by following God's Instructions is a lie, a false teaching. The Bible exposes this lie over and over as I have demonstrated. Will you be corrected? Or will you continue to further what you have been shown is a deception? We will see.