Pauline Absolutes

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GRACE_ambassador

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TRUTH Uncovered:​
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“I AM The Way, The Truth, and The Life: NO MAN​
cometh unto The Father, but By Me.” (John_14:6)​
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We live in a day when it seems that nothing is true...Everything
is subject to relativism...

...God’s truth. It stands alone. It doesn’t need to be proven, it simply “is.”
This declaration of absolute truth is the offense of the cross. Truth can’t
be known, so how dare we say that we know the truth, much less say
that our truth is the only way?...

...Pilate gives the standard answer of a relativist when he replies, “
What is truth?” That is still the question for today...

...The first Biblical ABSOLUTE truth for unbelievers is that
NO ONE is righteous...​

...for believers...Number one, there is NOTHING good in our flesh.
In Romans_7:18 Paul says,

“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth​
no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how​
to perform that which is good I find not."​

We’d prefer this verse to say that “not much good dwells within me.”...

...So, what difference does any of this make? How should [sound] doctrine
affect our everyday walk as a believer? We should be living confidently
in the knowledge of all that we have in Christ...
"
(D Havard)

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Pauline Absolutes



GRACE And Peace...
 
TDidymas

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GRACE_ambassador said:
...The first Biblical ABSOLUTE truth for unbelievers is that​
NO ONE is righteous...​

...for believers...Number one, there is NOTHING good in our flesh.
In Romans_7:18 Paul says,

“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth​
no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how​
to perform that which is good I find not."​
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Rom. 7:18 is the context of natural man, which by himself, does not have the faith necessary to be justified in God's sight. So, "dwelleth no good thing" is from God's perspective. "In my flesh" means literally "me, myself, and I" separate from God. Man may consider himself having some good, because he thinks that his goodness relative to someone else's badness is acceptable to God, but Paul is saying that is not the case.

And in context of this statement in 7:18 is his statement in Rom. 3 that no one is righteous. His argument in ch. 7 is a continuation of this idea. And this in turn is in context of the gospel message, that the work of Christ is what saves us, and not anything we do to obtain eternal life. Because what we do can't cause us to obtain eternal life, but Christ's work is what obtains it for us, and is fully sufficient to do so.

Therefore, "justified by faith" in Rom. 5:1 is among Paul's absolutes. Faith is no work because it is contrasted with works which can't save us. And it is not our faith that saves us (which is often a misrepresentation of James' expression), but God Himself saves us, and our faith in Christ is the coincidental action that helps us to know we are justified by God in reality (and not merely in theory). We may struggle to believe (that is, trust God completely for it), but when we finally give in and surrender to this absolute, it becomes our peace, rest, and anchor of the soul (Heb. 6:19).
 
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