(July 9, 2012 at 10:45 pm)cato123 Wrote:(July 9, 2012 at 2:05 pm)Drich Wrote: what Christ is doing is making it impossiable to find righteousness through adhearing to the Law. By not only holding on to the existing laws or interpertations of them He has added the 'spirit' or how that law maybe broken in the heart as well. What Chirst did in Mt 5 is put everyone in the same boat. Meaning Christ made it easy for the honest man to identify himself as a constant sinner. That no man at any point in his life can consider himself to be righteous. (even in his greatest works he/man is still a sinner in need of redemption.) Therefore convicting the sinner of his sin. Resulting in an effort or a need to find attonement for said sin. An attonement He/Christ offered on the Cross, which Paul (in His works in the books of Acts and Romans) specifically outlines. that is why there isn't a contradiction anywhere between the works of Paul verses the works of Christ.
These two repersent two different sides of the same coin. Only Christ/Son of God had the authority to complete the Law, and offer the attonement needed to forgive sins, and Paul was shown through his own life experience what attonement meant, when He was forgiven for persecuting the church. Then he took that lesson and applied it to the rest of Christianity, so we may see the contrast and working dynamic of what attonement really means.
Apologetic bullshit spouted by someone that still tries to reconcile the teachings of Paul with those of Jesus. To accept Paul in this instance, you must also deny the prophecy that was in Isaiah regarding the magnification of the law.
Please explain.
