You're blind. That is all about the kingdom of Israel. Remember that just before this day, Christ had taught them all about the kingdom for FORTY DAYS.
You cannot find the "preaching of the cross" in Acts 2 (i.e., the good news of the cross). A murder accusation is not "good news".
The things Peter taught on the day of Pentecost are what made me a Christian.
Turning from sin and being washed of past sins by the blood of Christ.
There are no other requirements, besides enduring faithfully until my end.
Why don't you think the following is the preaching of the cross ?..."Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
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36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ."
Jesus' death and resurrection are both mentioned.
I trust God has supplied all I need to remain faithful unto death.
Nobody will be judged for my behavior but me.
I'ld be wise to keep walking as Jesus walked.
What ?
You commanding me to actually do something for my salvation ?
What happened the to trust and belief without any corresponding actions that you think Paul preached?
Where is the lie in..."I have stopped sinning, thanks to the gift of repentance from sin, the gift of water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of past sins, and the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Thanks be to God for rebirth from His seed." ?
Most of my post is SCRIPTURE. Very little of it is my words.
If you have a problem with that, then you need to take it up with God.
Quit being stubborn, and respond, either in rebuttal of what I and scripture said, or in conceding that your position is wrong.
You will never reach salvation by continuing to climb the rope, because it's impossible to climb the rope to the end.
Where is the lie in..."I have stopped sinning, thanks to the gift of repentance from sin, the gift of water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of past sins, and the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Thanks be to God for rebirth from His seed." ?
Acts 2:14 (AKJV/PCE)
(2:14) ¶ But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all [ye] that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
Acts 2:22 (AKJV/PCE)
(2:22) Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
Why don't you think the following is the preaching of the cross ?..."Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
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36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ."
Jesus' death and resurrection are both mentioned.
Wrong again.
Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
The verse did include the word "saints".
Do any saints not love God with all their heart, soul, and strength ?
Do any saints fail to love their neighbor as they love themselves ?
Those things are part of the "rope" you hold in disdain.
Do this...get that.
Repent of sin, get baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of past sins, endure faithfully until the end... get saved.
God put requirements in pace for salvation.
Obey and be saved.
If you want to call it meritorious or some other thing...fine.
Peter was preaching to the nation of Israel.
Acts 2:14 (AKJV/PCE)
(2:14) ¶ But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all [ye] that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
Acts 2:22 (AKJV/PCE)
(2:22) Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
That murder furnished us the way to righteousness
Crucifixion with Him, with the affections and lusts.
That is good news to those who want to serve God without fault.
Nowhere is it written, perhaps, but we only have a portion of the days events.
Did Jesus ever say He would die for our sins ?
I appreciate what Peter said in Acts 3:26..."Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities."
I value the freedom from sin above what may or may not happen on the last day.
Doesn't he teach about walking in the Spirit instead of in the flesh? (Rom 8)
Doesn't Paul teach on freedom from sin ? (Rom 6, Gal 5)
Your answer makes me think that Paul does NOT teach on loving God and neighbor.
I know he does though.
"For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." (Rom 13:9-10)
Tunnel vision isn't conducive to Christian living.
But that was not what Peter was preaching. Peter was trying to get Israel to repent of the murder and turn to Christ so that He would return and establish His kingdom.
I appreciate what Peter said in Acts 3:26..."Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities."
I know he does though.
"For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." (Rom 13:9-10)
Tunnel vision isn't conducive to Christian living.
You cannot love God by trying to earn your salvation.
What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.
God is the one who made getting saved possible through His death, burial, and resurrection. God determined that in order for anyone to access that salvation, they must put their trust in Him.
Salvation of mankind has been achieved. But whether someone is saved is conditioned (iow, God has set the conditions for His applying that salvation to someone) on whether they have put their faith in Him.
I used meritorious for a reason, Hoping, because words mean things.
Meritorious means "deserving of reward or praise."
You, Hoping, are attempting to "endure to the end" so that, come judgement day, you "deserve" (aka, "a debt to be paid") to have your name written in the Book of Life.
No matter how you try to reword it to try to make it seem more palatable, to try to get around the scripture that clearly contradicts your beliefs, that is your position.
Since you have already violated God's law, you WILL receive your just desserts.
Mercy and grace are two sides of the same coin.
Do this, DON'T get that. Mercy is not getting what you DO deserve. You deserve death. God has provided a way, not of works, but out of mercy, to have your sins paid for ("wages," "debt").
Don't do this, DO get that. Grace is getting something you DON'T deserve. You do not deserve to have eternal life. But by NOT working, and instead, placing your trust in God to save you, God will give you life.
Don't confuse obedience with worldly efforts designed to eradicate obedience to God.
The confused one here is you, since you think that whenever "works" are mentioned without it mentioning the Mosaic Law, it must automatically mean "keeping the Mosaic Law," when that's just not the case.
Under the current dispensation, you cannot be obedient to God if you have not first placed your trust in Him.
You keep trying to apply the house rules of the previous dispensation to the current.
As a reborn, repentant man, with the gift of the Holy Ghost, it is possible.
Trying to reach heaven, acquire eternal life, through the practicing of the law, is like trying to shoot a musket here on Earth to try to hit a target in the most distant star system.
It is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE.
YOU CANNOT obey enough to earn your salvation.
Paul says in Romans 3:
Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
The effects of real faith are that one is saved, and that a relationship between the one who believes and God is restored, making it possible for him to love God.
Nowhere is it written, perhaps, but we only have a portion of the days events.
Did Jesus ever say He would die for our sins ?
I appreciate what Peter said in Acts 3:26..."Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities."
I value the freedom from sin above what may or may not happen on the last day.
In other words, "I like my doctrine that makes it seem like I am now sinlessly perfect, and that I am being a good person."
Who's position is truly accommodating sin, Hoping?
The one which recognizes that sin is still a problem in our lives, and tells its tenants to seek God? OR the one simply denies it happens, while being utterly self-righteous, not relying on God to save, but rather on one's own merits?
That's rich, coming from someone who is so self-righteous he denies that commits sin!
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Here, I'll compromise, because I really do want you to answer my challenges to your position.
I'll remove the Scripture from my post, and all the minor points that have nothing to do with the main thrust of my argument, so that you can see that it really is not very long, and that what makes it "long" is the fact that I'm literally quoting large passages of scripture to support my points.
However, I'm not going to edit my original post.
If you want to respond to the short post I made, then you'll need to quote it, and remove the portions that don't need to be responded to. No, that does not mean you get to pick and choose willy nilly what you get to respond to. It means that you need to respond to the direct points I made about your position.
No, I mean the accusation that you made against me when you said this:
Paul was addressing your accusation against me that I am somehow accommodating for sin. The passage is Paul's rebuttal to that accusation, and it's used by people like myself and others as a litmus test to see if we're teaching the right doctrine, because our doctrine SOUNDS like we're saying "it's ok to sin," when that's not what we teach.
His rebuttal to such an accusation completely undermines your position that Christians don't sin, because it PRESUPPOSES that Christians CAN and DO sin, in that the accuser is challenging what Paul is saying by asking if he is teaching that it's OK to sin, since we're under grace!
Paul's rebuttal is such that He CONDEMNS someone sinning after considering that they're under grace!
Since when has God forbidden something and it become impossible to do?
Thanks for making my point!
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And sinners who have called upon the name of the Lord to be saved are SAVED from that death.
THAT'S HOW IT WORKS, HOPING!
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No, you have to assume that. That is not stated anywhere in scripture.
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"I am doing..."
You believe that you can do something to earn salvation.
Your faith is in your works, and not in Christ! You cannot earn salvation, Hoping.
[Ephesians 2:8-9]
Not if I'm dead to the law.
[Romans 7:1-6]
I am delivered from the law, having died to what I was held by, so that I should (SHOULD) serve in the newness of the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
SHOULD.
Not "will."
Certainly, as Paul says in verses 7-12, that I would not have known sin except through the law. As such, I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died, for sin deceived me and killed me. Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
Notice what Paul said next, starting a new paragraph, speaking in present tense, and not some narrative tense that you've come up with to try to shoehorn your beliefs into the text:
Spoiler
Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.ButI see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Law Cannot Save from Sin - Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold...
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Your "narrative" belief completely ignores the context in which he's framing what he says.
"Sin revived and I died when the commandment came."
"Sin WAS producing death in me through what is good."
"BUT NOW it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me."
"In me nothing good dwells."
"if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me."
"I [am] the one who wills to do good."
"I delight in the law of God according to the inward man."
"I see another law in my members."
"So then (from here on, now that I've been delivered from this body of death by Jesus Christ our Lord, AKA "saved") with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin."
I'm not serving two masters. I am serving God, while my flesh serves the law of sin.
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And if one is saved (apart from works), righteousness is imputed to him, making him righteous.
[Romans 4:1-25]
Thus, a sinner can be made righteous through faith!
Again, Paul answered this accusation you're leveling against my position, that it somehow "allows more sin" because we're under grace. It doesn't.
That is your problem.
But that was not what Peter was preaching. Peter was trying to get Israel to repent of the murder and turn to Christ so that He would return and establish His kingdom.
You can find it in Rom 6:6-7, and Rom 8:1-4,9-11, 1 Cor 1:9, and 1 Cor 2:6, and 2 Cor 5:21, and Gal 5:24, and Eph 2:1-3, and 2 Tim 3:17, and Titus 1:15-16, and lots of other places too.
It would seem as if you just don't want to see it.