Originally Posted by
nrajeff
--You Calvinists sure blew it in the exegesis dept. It's the works of THE LAW--i.e., the legalistic, superficial rules of the TORAH--that were being referred to there. NOWHERE in the NT can you find Jesus issuing some blanket dismissal of the importance--including the eternal life-related importance--of OBEYING HIS COMMANDMENTS.
In fact, you can find (well, I can find them, not sure about you) MULTIPLE verses that mention obedience as being a condition for eternal life.
Can't you look into your own heart and see the true about you that which was so clear to the prophet Isaiah?
Isaiah 6:5
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
He made it clear that he wasn't the only one who is filled with sin or how we can get rid of it...
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
How can you say that anytime Jesus told us to obey Him it wasn't to love and believe? That was always in His words.. We become worthy by loving and believing Him.. If it was by Law then Law would be our judge and we would all die.. IHS jim