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 who did not accept Paul of Tarsus as apostle, and
said that Paul of Tarsus was an apostate
from the Law, and we see also that
the Ebionites said that it is
necessary to obey all the commandments of the Law of God, including the
commandment of doing the circumcision, and that Jesus the Nazarene is the Messiah, but is not God,
and that Jesus the Nazarene was not born of a
virgin, but was generated by Joseph, and we see also that the
Holy Scriptures of the Ebionites were only the books of the Tanach
(Old Testament), and that they used only one
gospel, written in Hebrew, that
was considered as being the Gospel according to Matthew, but did not contain
all the passages that are in the Gospel according to Matthew in Greek that is
used by the Catholics and 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.
Published in
December 21, 2009.
Updated in July
29, 2011.
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