I have spent the last few days reviewing your religious beliefs as defined by your posts. Since you will just deflect and ignore the scriptures I post and the understanding I have, I decided to just concentrate on your preaching and why we disagree so much. If I use your own words then you can't say I slander you.
Your Word's.
"isn't it human tradition, as far as religion & justification before God,
to keep a bunch of laws? to attain worthiness by our works? to establish a righteousness for ourselves? to lay out a group or ordinances and regulations, by which man says they are 'holy' if they obey them? setting up a means of comparison between men - this one is holier, he keeps more of these regulations; this one is not as holy, he fails - setting up a way for men to judge one another?"
So continuing from the last post you can see the influence of believing God killed thousands of people for breaking His Laws that you teach He never gave them. This would be unjust. So who respects an unjust God? His Word's are just a "bunch of laws" that are against us anyway. Here you are actually saying that pagan laws, man's law's and God's laws are no different. They are all there to make "us" feel worthy.
Duet. 10:
12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God,
to walk in all his ways, and to love him,
and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day
for thy good?
But you don't seem to believe in this God or the reason He gave for the "bunch" of Laws He gave you. Is this not the same thing he spoke to Cain?
7 If thou doest well,
shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee
shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
And Abraham:
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of
thy country, and from
thy kindred, and from
thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Were these for Abraham's Good? Or just a bunch of laws to keep so Abraham could judge himself as holier than Sodom?
When Jesus carefully walked in all the Commandments of God, was this just so He could claim to be holier than Adam?
And what does the Word of God which became Flesh say about "Doing" His Words?
John 14:
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
If ye love me, keep my commandments
21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me:
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.
Mat. 19:
17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good?
there is none good but one,
that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Matt. 7:
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine,
and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
And as the Word of God before He became Flesh:
Ex. 20:
2 I
am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Duet. 30:
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you,
that I (The Word which became Flesh) have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:
therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
20 That thou mayest
love the LORD thy God,
and that thou mayest
obey his voice, and that thou mayest
cleave unto him:
for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land
which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
So again, you have a religious doctrine, you truly believe in it, but the scriptures teach the opposite. It is man's tradition to hate God and His instructions. They will follow any instruction, any religion, but the Righteous, Spiritual, Good and Perfect "bunch of God's Laws" God created they will refuse.
Jer. 17:
9 The heart
is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10 I the LORD search the heart,
I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways,
and according to the fruit of his doings.
Rom. 8:
7 Because the carnal mind
is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
So your religious doctrine: "isn't it human tradition, as far as religion & justification before God,
to keep a bunch of laws" has no Biblical support at all, just like the teaching that God didn't give man the knowledge of sin before He punished and in many cases, killed them.