Good question. Good enough to make it onto a list of 100 topics that we as NCFCA apologists have to study.
It also happens to be one of the questions I had to answer at the tournament this weekend.
What are your thoughts?
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Very good question!
ReplyDelete#1: I don't believe anyone can every keep all 10 Commandments. We are born to depravity, with a proclivity to do good.
#2: It is by grace we have been saved. Grace has nothing to do with "doing good." Doing good could also be translated as keeping the rules, or keeping the 10 Commandments. But that would imply that we gained our acceptance to God by our own good works. Keeping the 10 Commandments doesn't make us a Christian just like going to McDonalds doesn't make us a hamburger ;)
#3: Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14:6)
Isaiah 64:6
ReplyDelete"For all of us have become like one who is unclean,And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment..."
Isaiah 61:10
"I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation,He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness."
The simple answer is no because we're born with a sin nature so even if we could keep the commandments we would still be sinful in God's eyes
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