...Anyone that depends on any righteousness or obedience of their own are going against Rom 5:18-19 and against the faith that Abraham had before the law that came later that did not nullify his faith at all...
...So why do you believe that the first century Jews had to depend on righteousness / obedience of their own? You said "anyone".
One of those of various of THEIR disprencies within THEIR version of Mid-Acts.
And Tam is one of their sharpest, at least on TOL.
But so can any sharp person be within a system that is itself, off.
Look at the great minds within the RCC.
But because the system through which those great minds within the RCC have learned to look at things through; such end up "wise" only within their system and to those who adhere to it.
Happens within every "profession" in life, as well as within every different shade of expression of each profession in life.
The actual MAD is VERY rigorous - EVER seeking to find holes within its own findings, due to the EVER constant that further and further refinement of one's understanding, requires.
Colossians 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Ephesians 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
The "more well rounded out" never ending...
As is the case within any actually objective practice of one science of inquiry or another in life in general.
What is one of the first things one learns in math (a science which is actually all about logic and structure)?
One of the first things one soon forgets - the importance of the need to ever "now run your math backwards; see if it still holds up."
While I'm at it, andy, truth be told, the Pentecostal Movement arose of out of a very basic version of Acts 2 Dispensationalism.
And many of its views have remained those of Acts 2 Dispensationalism to this very day.
Nevertheless, Romans 14:5, towards ya both; in memory of Romans 5:7,8.