I am bound to the dichotomy of Law and Gospel.
Then you should free yourself from that false ideology, because the gospel contains law, it is just a different law.
Obedience is not how a person attains something from God.
Quite the contrary, what you just verbalized is a false doctrine. I think you need to read the Bible again from cover to cover, because obedience to God is the ONLY way, with faith, that anyone receives anything from God.
Obedience is not vertical, but horizontal.
Pure nonsense, and not Biblical in the least bit. Sounds New Age to me…
It is not about a righteousness Coram Deo, before God; but a righteousness Coram Mundus or Coram Hominibus–it is the righteousness before the world of our fellow human beings.
To put it another way, it is not God who needs our good works. It’s our neighbor who needs our good works.
Sounds good, but so does wanton sex. God does not need our obedience, yet He commands it because you do NOT have parity with Him. You are not His equal. You are His created creature, and that divine-creature relationship always has in purview obedience. He commands you to obey, and apparently you do not like that, so you rebel and teach others to do the same; reminds me of a verse…
Romans 1:32*
who, knowing the decree of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do those things themselves, but also work to cause others to practice them, also taking pleasure in the fact that others are practicing them.
As it pertains to all things, before God, the movement is always vertical, but it is unilateral: It is always God coming down. God always comes down, we never go up.
Sounds very philosophical…from a human point of view, that directly contradicts what God say sin His Word. So then, what do you do with these?
Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Luke 6:46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
And every other passage that tells you that if you do not walk in obedience to God, then you will end up in eternal fire? And remember, your philosophical mumbo-jumbo does not cancel out the Word of God.
My hope in the resurrection and the life of the Age to Come exists solely, and entirely, as the gift of God which is found exclusively in the Person and Work of Jesus Christ, who rose from the dead.
Ah, more false carnal wisdom of men that directly contradicts Scripture. The work of Christ upon the cross, when applied to your life, will save you from your sins – that’s it, nothing more, because that is what the atonement does. It does not take you to heaven, that is not its purpose; if you do not understand the atonement, then you need to go back and re-read Exodus and Leviticus. The atonement in Christ is based upon the same rules God gave to Moses, the only difference is that today we do not need to sacrifice an animal every time we sin. And the “person” of Christ does not do anything for your making it to heaven, that is more false doctrine that Scripture does not support.
Scripture is clear: obey, or suffer the consequences.
If, on Judgment, I were to be measured solely by my works, I would indeed be found deserving of Hell (and rightly, justly so).
Again, not trying to be insulting, but you demonstrate that you do not understand Scripture. Your obedience keeps you in Christ, it has nothing directly to do with judgment. If you are in Christ when you leave this world, then you are good to go…but if you are not in Christ when you die, then your false beliefs have screwed you over…and now you will have no excuses, because you have been given the truth.
Indeed, I shall be judged by my works, but I shall not pass through judgment to Life by my works. But by Grace Alone shall I endure the fire of God’s righteous judgment, and discover the mercy of God which holds me and keeps me, for Christ’s sake.
Ah…another false doctrine you have swallowed. What passage of Scripture do you allege that says God keeps you? Evidently you know little to nothing of covenant, let me help you; all that God makes available to us – including mercy and grace – are bound up within the New Covenant in Christ. You keep yourself abiding in that covenant by walking in obedience to the covenant law of the New Covenant, which is found in I John 3:23-24; what scholars and theologians call the Law of Christ (because that is what Scripture calls it).
If you are not practicing walking in obedience to God in Christ, then you are no longer in Christ, you are no longer abiding in the New Covenant; therefore, saving grace and mercy are no longer yours. Any interpretation of the NT outside of covenant, leads to false doctrines, false teachings, false ideologies…and eternal fire.
It is far too dangerous to seek to boast of my own efforts when it comes to the Throne of Judgment which I must endure. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
I am afraid that claiming mercy on judgment day will not work; God has made it clear, we are either in Christ, the Ark of Safety, or we pretend and are on our own, standing before God not in Christ, but in our own wicked sin.
And, BTW, Scripture never calls a saint sinners, that is another false doctrine in Calvinism. A sinner is one who practices sin, and no one who practices sin, according to Scripture, has eternal life.
Blessings.