IS THE SALVATION BY FAITH, OR
BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW?
Paul of Tarsus said, in Romans 3:28:
"We reckon therefore that a man is justified by
faith without the works of the law".
However, Jesus Christ said, in Matthew 7:21-23:
7.21 NOT EVERY ONE THAT SAITH UNTO ME, LORD, LORD,
SHALL ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF YAHVEH, BUT HE THAT DOETH THE WILL OF MY FATHER
WHO IS IN HEAVEN, THIS SHALL ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF YAHVEH.
7.22 MANY WILL
SAY TO ME IN THAT DAY, LORD, LORD, DID WE NOT PROPHESY IN THY NAME, AND IN THY
NAME CAST OUT DEMONS, AND IN THY NAME DO MANY SIGNS?
7.23 AND THEN I
WILL SAY UNTO THEM, I NEVER KNEW YOU: DEPART FROM ME, ALL THAT WORK INIQUITY.
Therefore, we see that Jesus Christ made it very clear
that the salvation is not by faith, but by the obedience to the commandments of
God, because he said that only those who do the will of
God will be saved, and to do the will of God is to
obey His commandments, because the commandments indicate what God wants
us to do and what God wants us not to do, and Jesus Christ
also made it very clear that it profits nothing to believe in him,
if the person does not do
the will of God, in other words, if the person does not obey all the commandments of God.
It is written in Ezekiel 18:21-22:
21 BUT IF THE WICKED TURN FROM ALL HIS SINS THAT HE
HATH COMMITTED, AND KEEP ALL MY STATUTES, AND DO THAT WHICH IS LAWFUL AND
RIGHT, HE SHALL SURELY LIVE, HE SHALL NOT DIE.
22 NONE OF HIS TRANSGRESSIONS THAT HE HATH COMMITTED
SHALL BE REMEMBERED AGAINST HIM: IN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT HE HATH DONE HE
SHALL LIVE.
Therefore, we see that God said that the salvation is by
the obedience to His commandments, and that the sinners that convert to Him and
start to obey all His commandments, have their sins
forgiven and are saved.
Wherefore, it is verified that the doctrine of Paul of
Tarsus is totally contrary to the doctrine of God and to the doctrine of Jesus Christ, what shows that Paul
of Tarsus was not from
God, and he was not an apostle of Christ Jesus, but he was an
apostate from the Law and a heretic.
The doctrine of Paul of Tarsus, that says that the
salvation is by faith, without the works of the Law, is a totally absurd doctrine,
because if it was so, a man that believe in Jesus but is murderer, idolater and
adulterer, would be saved, only
because he believed in Jesus, and a man that obeys all the commandments of God
but does not believe in Jesus would not be saved, just because he did not
believe in Jesus.
Moreover, if the salvation was by faith in Jesus
Christ, as Paul of Tarsus said, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Elias, and
all the other servants of God mentioned in the Tanach (Old Testament) would not
be saved, because they did not believe in Jesus Christ, because in the time when
they lived Jesus Christ still had not been born.
In all the Bible, God makes it very clear that what He
wants from us is that we obey His commandments.
We see this in Deuteronomy 10:12-13, where it is
written:
12 AND NOW, ISRAEL, WHAT DOTH YAHVEH THY GOD REQUIRE
OF THEE, BUT TO FEAR YAHVEH THY GOD, TO WALK IN ALL HIS WAYS, AND TO LOVE HIM,
AND TO SERVE YAHVEH THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART AND WITH ALL THY SOUL,
13 TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF YAHVEH, AND HIS
STATUTES, WHICH I COMMAND THEE THIS DAY FOR THY GOOD?
We also see this in Ecclesiastes 12:13, where it is
written:
13 THIS IS THE END OF THE MATTER; ALL HATH BEEN HEARD:
FEAR GOD, AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS; FOR THIS IS THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN.
Studying the history of the Christianity, we see that
in the beginning of the Christian Era there were the Ebionites, that were
followers of Jesus Christ that did not accept Paul of Tarsus as apostle, and said
that Paul of Tarsus was an apostate from the Law, and they said
that it is necessary to obey all the commandments of the Law of God, including the
commandment of doing the circumcision, and they said that Jesus Christ is the
Messiah, but is not God, and they said that Jesus Christ was not born of a
virgin, but was generated by Joseph, and they did not
accept as Holy Scriptures the books of the New
Testament, except the Gospel according to Matthew, but in a version written in
Hebrew and smaller than the Greek version of the Gospel according to Matthew
that is used by the Catholics and by the Protestants, or Evangelicals.
Jesus Christ said, in Matthew 5:17-19:
17 THINK NOT THAT I CAME TO DESTROY THE LAW OR THE
PROPHETS: I CAME NOT TO DESTROY, BUT TO FULFIL.
18 FOR VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, TILL HEAVEN AND EARTH
PASS AWAY, ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE SHALL IN NO WISE PASS AWAY FROM THE LAW, TILL
ALL THINGS BE ACCOMPLISHED.
19 WHOSOEVER THEREFORE SHALL BREAK ONE OF THESE LEAST
COMMANDMENTS, AND SHALL TEACH MEN SO, SHALL BE CALLED LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF
HEAVEN: BUT WHOSOEVER SHALL DO AND TEACH THEM, HE SHALL BE CALLED GREAT IN THE
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
Therefore, we see that Jesus Christ said that he did not
come to abolish the Law of God, and that the Law of God will never be abolished
and that no commandment of the Law of God will ever be abolished, and that we must
obey all the commandments of the Law of God, without exception.
However, Paul of Tarsus said that Jesus Christ
abolished the Law of God (Ephesians 2:15).
Therefore, we see that the doctrine of Paul of Tarsus
is totally contrary to the doctrine of Jesus Christ.
All this show that Paul of Tarsus was not an apostle
of Jesus Christ, and was not a man of God.
For more details on this subject, see these pages:
Christ http://www.servosdejave.org.br/was_paul_a_man_of_god.htm
http://www.servosdejave.org.br/was_paul_apostle.htm
Yahveh
bless you.
João
Paulo Fernandes Pontes.
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