Did Peter's Vision of the Sheet Mean People & Food?

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What is the problem here? if you (or I) are not perfect YOU DO NOT KEEP THE LAW. Not ANY of it. That is what James says, "he who breaks one breaks the lot", and Jesus summarized the Law by saying BE PERFECT.

BE perfect by all means, but if you are forced to admit that you are not, as scripture says none are, for "he who denies he has sin is a liar has not truth in him", you are logically required to cease compound your lawbreaking by commanding and attempting keeping of it (and so am I )

Therefore none of us can keep the law therefore none of us do.

As none of us keep the law our effort is waste. And neither wil grace aid teh effort. This is because our motive to strive in this manner is intrinsically wicked and the very motive to try to be good is itself poisoned by the fact that we are not good

But of course we in our sin natures refuse to accept this, and will twist the plain wording of scripture, or outright ignore it, to hold to our attempts to save ourselves. Believe me, sir, I have done this and wasted too many years in the effort.

being under the law has only one outcome. DEATH AND CONDEMNATION. That is what it is for.

What insisting that you can (or I) or must attempt to keep the law reverals is a radical and deep seated mustrust of the living God. And i am intimate with that one, be assured.

I have not followed this thread closely, so if I have misreperesent anyone i apologize, but my life as well as my very soul depends on this correct understanding of the Law. THis is no idle chatter or parlour game speculation on my part

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It comes down to motive. If you "keep the law" even a part of it, out of duty, that very effort is sin. There seems to be confusion between what consistent effort to obey the law produces on one hand and what the law commands on the other.

If you advocate part of the Law as opposed to all of it, from motive of willpower duty then you are simply a watered down legalist.

If in liberty you love the Lord, well that is entirely different. But such people do not advocate life, they SHOW IT spontaneously by their daily living without force or strain

The difference is inner motive, and that difference is produced by repentance lead to by the gift of grace in personal one on one relationship with the Holy Spirit of the Risen Christ.

AS I do not show the life of the risen christ my advocating the Law of God (even though the Law commands, but can never prpoducew, this life) is worthless hypocrisy