I have admitted that the Spiritual man judges all things, like Paul wrote in 1 Cor 2:15.
The Spiritual man does not judge based on appearances.
He judges with righteous judgement.
Judging appearances is not the same as judging BASED ON appearances.
We don't know the final disposition of the man.
Which is why we don't judge based on appearances, but rather, judge with righteous judgement.
Hardly, as the Law of Moses was made for sinners.
Wrong.
The Law of Moses was made for Israel.
The "Law" was made for sinners.
Adam was given the law, "do not partake of the law, or you will die."
He broke the law, and he died.
And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death.
And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death.
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The Law (which includes as a subset the Mosaic Law meant specifically for Israel) is the knowledge of good and evil.
Thus, when Paul speaks of the law, he is not referring to the Mosaic law, but rather, the entirety of what the law is, that being "the knowledge of good and evil."
Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
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I admitted to being a Spiritual man who judges all things. (1 Cor 2:15)
But not based on appearances.
Righteous judgement is possible, when righteous.
Righteous judgement is possible when you don't judge based on appearances, and when you know what is right and wrong.
As you don't believe man can be righteous, the scripture may sound foreign to you.
So you don't believe Paul when he says:
But now
the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even
the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for
all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate
His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time
His righteousness,
that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
God’s Righteousness Through Faith - But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
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It's not OUR righteousness. It's HIS!
We are not righteous. We cannot be. We have sinned, and fallen short. ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS imputed upon us will justify us.
Paul's narrative of life under the Law, and failing to adhere to it, is a wonderful testimony of the power of God in Paul's life after conversion.
Reading your beliefs into the text.
What he was once subject to, the Law, was then in his past.
Saying it doesn't make it so.
And he said "we establish the law." Clearly not in the past.
As every precept of the Law of Moses can be in someway included in the law of Christ, your point is pointless.
Every precept?
Including the dietary and clothing laws?
If you say no, then what you just said is false.
Praise God for the presage of our faith today.
Abraham proved his faith when he was about to sacrifice Isaac.
Abraham was accounted righteous because of his faith, BEFORE any works.
You don't seem to understand the significance of the kind of covenant God made with him in Genesis 15.
We too can prove our faith by loving our neighbor as we love ourselves.
More works we must do.
You're a legalist, Hoping. You should repent.
He wrote it in the historical-present tense.
Saying it doesn't make it so.
Presenting a past event in a present tense scenario.
As Rom 7:5 had already shown Paul was no longer in the flesh, it is odd that you think he was still in the flesh.
Rom 7:5..."For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death."
Keep reading:
Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.
But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
Freed from the Law - Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?
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He finished his thought, so he moves on, new paragraph:
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
Sin’s Advantage in the Law - What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
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New paragraph:
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. But I 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.
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Note verse 25. He's still in the flesh, and so with the flesh, he serves the law of sin, but with his mind, he serves the law of God.
Two paragraphs removed from what you say is "narrative about his past."
I rejoice that he made that even more clear by answering his own Rom 7 questions (v23, 24), with Rom 8:2 and 6:6 answers.
Try reading the scripture in order, and your assertion falls apart.
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