Was the Law a trick question?
Does God ever ask a person to do things the person is unable to do?......
The answer is....no!
All that God asks of us is within our ability to do.
If it were not within our ability then there would be no point in asking us to do it.
Another thing to keep in mind....If we are totally unable to do something that God has commanded us to do, then there would be no way for God to legitimately judge us for failing to do what he asked.
God could never send anyone to Hell for failing to keep his Commandments if we were unable to keep them.
it is only because there is nothing about the Commandments that is beyond our ability to keep that God has the legitimate right to judge us for failing to keep them.
What we have to always remember however, is that the "ABILITY" to do something is not the same as the "LIKELIHOOD" to do it.
All of us have the "ability" to lead a sinless life and fulfill all the things that god might ask us to follow.
There is nothing out of reach for any of the Laws and Commandments that appear in the Bible.
There is no hard math involved.
No super-duper hard mountain to climb.
No heavy rock we have to lift and carry.
But the fact that we all know we have the "ability" to keep all the law does not make it "Likely" at all that we could do so day after day....LOL
It's like...
(a true story)
It's like the time I invited a friend to come to church with me and my wife.
I knew this friend was trapped in a lot of false teachings, and his faith life was at a dead end.
So i invited him to church with us in the hope that he might be moved by the Alter Call at the end, and walk forward.
But he just sat though the Alter call and that was that.
Now did he have the ability to step out and go forward?>....yes!
I made sure we sat near the front, so it was not a long walk.
I made sure he sat on the end so there was no one in his way.
He has two strong legs and so i knew he could walk forward when the Alter Call was made to do so.
So my friend had the "ABILITY" to answer the Alter Call.
But just having the ability does not mean it's going to be "LIKELY'' .
Its the same with all that God asks us to do.
We have the ability to do what is asked....but it's not very likely to be sure that we will always do it.
So the Law of God was never meant to be a trick question.
Alan Is A Non-Christian Heretic
Hi Alan,
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The Bible is clear that once you sin,,,even a small sin, you are "lost".
The Bible is also clear that once you are lost there is no other path to salvation except via the Son.
Unless you wrote something you didnt mean because you attended public school, the statement you posted disqualified you from the Christian Faith.
Onlly one statement disqualifies you, the other does not, it simply makes you extremely impotent. Thus you have theological E.D.
You hold to a pure cl***ical Pelagius position. By saying that once you sin, you are then lost is exactly what his position was. Thus he denied original sin that you are bore into sin (Romans 5:12-18).
Therefore the issue has turned from your ignorance on Calvinism and Arminian to whether or not you are going to hell on the path of heresy you choose.
The semi-pelagianism is what the educated Arminianism proponents would view. That when Adam fell we were not completely dead but sick. Our reason did not fall and we are still able to make decisions.
The Calvinist view would be Augustinian. That original sin means you are completely dead in sin. Your corpse is 10,000 feet under the ocean for 4000 years, your flesh is decayed and your skelton is broken in pieces. Completely dead.
In order for this heretic Alan to justify his complete heresy by taken the pure pelagius view is by saying that God would not ask us to do somethingn if it wasn't true. lol. He fails to define what us means.
Thus, lets focus on this heretic and let an educated person like myself actually represent both sides correctly and have the chips fall where they may.
Alan, either you worded something you did not mean because of your public school education, or you are a complete heretic.
Respectfully,
Jean Chauvin (Jude 3).