Does Paul tell Timothy
to be strong in keeping the commandments?.2Timothy
2:1
Does the grace of God come
to you by keeping the commandments?.1Corinthians
1:4; Romans 5:15
Are
hearts of humanity purified
by commandment keeping?
Did Peter say that commandment
keeping was needed to be saved?.Acts
15:11
Were the apostles
and elders eager
to tell others about the law of commandment keeping?.Acts
15:24
Did the apostles with the
guidance of Creator-God's holy nature, his Holy Spirit in them feel that
commandment keeping, which of course included circumcision and tithing,
was a necessary thing?.Acts
15:28,29
Did Paul say that we were
called into obligation to keep any law or called into the grace of God?.Galatians
1:6
What is it that we are saved
by?
Are we
saved
by keeping the commandments? Or, are we saved by a bunch
of religious
do's and don'ts?.2Thessalonians
2:10 "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish,
because they received not the love of the truth that they might
be saved." Acts 15:11 "But we believe
that through the grace of the Lord Emmanuel Christ we are saved,
even as they." Romans 10:13 For
whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Did Emmanuel state
that we should worship
God using a lot
of practices common in religion of the day?.John
4:23,24.
Is it what Emmanuel did,
meaning His death and resurrection, saving of us?.Hebrews
6:1.
Did Emmanuel say that we
are kept in God by the do's and don'ts of various religious practices?.John
17:11,12.
Perhaps it is God's purpose
or plan involving us that saves us?.2Timothy
1:9.
Or maybe it's that we are
saved if God dwells in us?.1John
4:16 "And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God
is love and he that dwells in love dwells in God and God in him.".If
you dwell in God and God in you, you are obviously saved without the do's
and don'ts of the works of religion.
Did Paul
say to the jailer who asked how he could be saved, you'll be saved if you
do
these religious acts?.Acts
16:30,31 "And brought them out and said Sirs what must I do to be saved?
And they said, Believe on the Lord Emmanuel the Christ and you are
saved and your house."
Did Paul here say anything
apart from belief being needed in
order to be saved?.1Corinthians
1:21 "...it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them
that believe."
Is the Spirit life in you
because of you keeping the commandments or because you have the gift of
righteousness from Emmanuel?.Romans
8:10. Did
you get this gift from a book?
Does Paul say that one's
own righteousness is that which is based upon God's New Testament law
of love in the heart?.Philippians
3:9
Does Paul remind Timothy
the more you keep the commandments, the more the grace or favor of God
will be upon you?.1Timothy
1:14
One does not
have a relationship with God by trying to please Him with commandment keeping.
Were we saved by the works
of being willing to keep the commandments, go to church and pay 10% to
it?.2Timothy
1:9;
Acts 15:11
Does Paul tell the Thessalonians
that they have an everlasting consolation.(nearness
with God means a relationship).by
being sure to keep all the law including tithing and the commandments?.2Thessalonians
2:16.
Do we glorify God through
tithing, keeping the commandments, etc.?.2Thessalonians
1:12
Did Paul say
that keeping the laws of God would edify
you and qualify you for a great reward?.Acts
20:32;
Galatians 3rd chapter.
Did Paul and Barnabas
persuade religious people including the Jews to continue on keeping the
commandments and be sure to tithe?.Acts
13:43
Did Paul and Barnabas give
testimony how that through thick and thin they kept the laws of the ten
commandments in order to be faithful to God and receive His blessings?.Acts
14:3
What did Paul testify about?.Acts
20:24
Does Paul say that if you
keep tithing and the commandments uppermost in your mind that, not only
will they build up your faith, but lead toward your eternal inheritance?.Acts
20:32
Does Paul say that he received
grace for obedience to the commandments?.Romans
1:5
Did James say that pure
religion involves keeping the commandments?.James
1:27
What is that makes us sure
that we are of the truth and gives us assurance that we are ok with God?
Is it keeping the commandments?.1John
3:18,19
Does righteousness come
by the
law which included the commandments?.Galatians
2:21 "I do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness comes
by the law, then Christ is dead in vain."."The
garment of legal righteousness was in fact wearing out and man being exhibited
as the prophet declared him":.Isaiah
64.6 "But we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses
are as filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our iniquities like
the wind have taken us away."....Gibson.
And if it had come by adherence
to the law, then what?.Galatians
3:10 "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse,
for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things
which are written in the
book of the law to do them."
Are we now to live by the
commandments?.Galatians
2:20
Does Paul say we are made
heirs of the Kingdom of God by commandment keeping?.Titus
3:7 "That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs
according to the hope of eternal life."
James
1:12 ".....he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised
to them that love him."
Why does Paul often open
and sign his letters with."grace
be unto you".and
not 'brethren, be sure you continue in the blessings of God by keeping
the commandments and not being neglectful of giving a tithe
to God'?.Philippians
1:2; Romans 16:24; 1Corinthians
1:3;
16:23;
2Corinthians
1:2; 13:14;
Galatians
1:3; 6:18;
Ephesians
1:2; 6:24;
1Thessalonians
1:1; 5:28; 2Thessalonians
1:2; 3:18;
1Timothy
1:2; 6:21;
2Timothy
1:2;
4:22;
Philemon
1:25.
