True or False: Grace is harder than Law

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It might be an exercise in mere sophistry to quote Scripture and make a point that we think is sound, but start comparing matters to real life, and the sophistry begins to break down.

Here's what I mean:

We can talk all day long about "men love darkness instead of light", and "had pleasure in unrighteousness", and etc.

But let's face it. In Adam ALL DIE. Why? Because in Adam, all have a law of sin that forces everyone from Adam forward to be compelled to sin. There is a defect in our moral nature, inherited from Grandpa Adam.

This defect, as Brother Blume so ably pointed out, comes alive and slays us, when the commandment of the law is ushered in.

Following that, here's where the reasoning becomes unsound, and hence mere sophistry:

The law of sin in our members, while dormant, does nothing, until the law of God is introduced. At that time, it revives and destroys our innocence before God, so that, should we die in that state, we would have to face judgment.

Here's the kicker: When does the law of sin revive in us? When are we first introduced to right and wrong? When do we lose our innocence? When do we become slaves to sin?

WHEN WE ARE CHILDREN!!!

Not you, not me, not anyone anywhere had a choice in being born "in Adam". No one person other than Jesus, since Adam fell, has ever been born without a law of sin in their members.

And not until the cross, and the power of God unto salvation otherwise known as the Gospel, could anyone ever hope of having the law of sin in their members, and the power of sin, be destroyed, so that they could freely serve God with a pure conscience, and bear fruit in the Holy Spirit.

So, then, until all have passed through the Gospel, and have been born again, all have a law of sin, inherited from Adam, through NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN.

Their mere conception guaranteed they would be born "in Adam", with a law of sin in their members. That law of sin, guaranteed, would activate and destroy the soul of the one now corrupted by sin.

It is only until much later, when a person can determine and will that they either accept or reject God's free offer of salvation. But your average child anywhere in the world isn't being given that chance to hear the Good News and obey it. So guess what, all these young children running around in the world, all going to hell because the law of sin revived in them when a basic commandment of God was introduced to them, and they broke it, and became a slave to sin.

This means that the moral inability of a person to obey God's law is the result of Adam's fall. And Adam's fall is a result of him choosing to eat of the fruit in the garden. Adam, without the law of sin in his members, willingly choose to disobey God, and so, he ruined it for the rest of us.

Sure, when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. Who would contradict that? But why is it that anyone of us can even be drawn away by our own lusts? We don't even know lust except the law states "thou shalt not covet", according to Paul. So guess what? The law of God is what causes the law of sin to activate, and the law of sin, taking advantage of us, through the weakness of our flesh, slays us.

So not even the moral inability is our fault. Anyone who thinks they can get on with life without ever sinning (i.e. transgressing God's law) must have a Messiah-complex and think they're Jesus.

It's not until the power and presence of the Holy Spirit can anyone hope to live sin-free.

And the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Grace. Anything less than that is salvation by works, so that a person may boast.