did you read Romans yet?
All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
(Romans 2:12)
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
(Romans 3:19)
these blow up Josh's 'oh under the law is just an idiom' nonsense.
But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.
(Romans 3:21)
this blows up the 'we can only know or have righteousness by the law' nonsense
if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void, for the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
(Romans 4:14-15)
this blows up your 'gotta keep the law that's how we're saved' nonsense.
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
(Romans 6:1-2)
this blows up the idiot accusation that rejoicing in the fact we've been made free means we're thinking or telling anyone that they can just sin all they want - as well as the stupid idea that we even want to
Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code
(Romans 7:1-6)
this blows up the ridiculous assertion that we're under the law, and explains how it comes to be and why "there is therefore no more condemnation for those who are in Christ" ((Romans 8:1)) -- not because we're faithfully working at 1/3 or less of the law, having found perverse ways to ignore 2/3 of the jots and tittles of it, but because through Christ we have died.
For apart from the law, sin lies dead.
(Romans 7:8)
this blows up the foolishness called 'wisdom' by some of you people on this thread thinking you're teachers, trying to convince the free to become bondsman again, that by slavery to the law you escape sin
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
(Romans 8:7-8)
this blows up the ridiculousness of a righteousness measured and achieved by the working of the flesh at carnal commandments -- which no one is worthy to judge here, because 'all you who judge are guilty'
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear
(Romans 8:15)
this blows up the completely imaginary notion that the Spirit of God given to the believer is the spirit of bondage to the law - for 'perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment' ((1 John 4:8))
do i need to go on or are you literate?
am i being harsh? yes i'm being direct. whoever hates correction is stupid, and the Lord chastens those He loves.