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Originally Posted by notofworks
So am I to understand, from this statement, that you believe works could help us obtain righteousness, but works don't make us righteous? I'm still a little stuck on your claim that you were able to speak in tongues (a necessary element of salvation according to you) because you "let go of sin."
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see you almost are close... Our actions are either righteous/just or not. God judges/considers them as in
Gen 15:6. He is the one that declares righteous which is a legal position of actions judged. When it comes to sins. God's justice declares the penalty to be satisfied or debt to be paid. It is not a acquittal.
Gen 15:6 is not dealing with sin it is simply about justice done. which is a very clear aspect of how God deals with man.
Judgment & Justification In Early Judaism And The Apostle Paul by Chris VanLandingham
is a excellent and probably one of the most thorough books on this subject concerning this dealing with OT writings and New Testament era.
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