Featured Doers/Fulfillers Of The Law

What does this question have to do with the OP?

 

21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?
22 Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect;
23 and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God.
24 Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith. Ja 2

5 but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
6 who will render to every man according to his works:
7 to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:
10 but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:
13 for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified: Ro 2

 

Works are the very definer of the 'just' and the 'unjust':

15 having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust. Acts 24:15

28 Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice,
29 and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment. Jn 5

 

The 'works' to which James is referring:

27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. Ja 1
15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,
16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? Ja 2

The just:

34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;
36 naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

The unjust:

41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 for I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink;
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Mt 25

Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

 

You've got not one iota of scripture that supports that, you're just spouting off as usual. What sort of 'Calvinist' are you? It's regeneration BEFORE faith, remember? Have you forgotten your script?

Like many examples we're given in the scriptures, God first wrought within, then comes the conversion. Works are acceptable to God before 'coming to Jesus' because God has already wrought within them, i.e., God is the source of the works.

20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;
21 but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.`Jn 3 YLT

Nicodemus was drawn to the light that night because God had wrought within him already. He was 'born from above' BEFORE becoming a 'secret disciple' or entering the kingdom.

 

The “he is a Jew who is one inwardly” motif that Paul has constructed in chapter 2 leads into the question of Ro 3:1 and concludes in Ro 9:

If , because God is no respecter of persons, Jew and non-Jew alike are to be judged by their works with or without the law; – vv 5-13

And if non-Jews that don’t have the law can do by nature the things of the law because the law has been written in their hearts (synonymous with the circumcision of heart in v 29); vv 14-15

And if Jews that have the law and glory in it have through their transgression of it caused the name of God to be blasphemed among the non-Jews; vv 17-24

And if the Jews’ circumcision becomes uncircumcision if they transgress the law; v 25

And if non-Jews fulfill the law their uncircumcision becomes circumcision and they will judge the Jews; vv 26-27

And if Jews outwardly, circumcised in the flesh by the letter are not the real Jews; v 28

And if real Jews are those inwardly circumcised in heart in the spirit, not the letter; v 29

Then:

1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision?

Paul begins his answer here:

2 Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

And comes back to it here:

3 For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren`s sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5 whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. Ro 9

But:

6 But it is not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:
7 neither, because they are Abraham`s seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed. Ro 9

Reiterating the “he is a Jew who is one inwardly” motif of chapter 2.

 

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....God; who will render to every man according to his works:...patience in well-doing...eternal life: Ro 2:5-7

... inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for... ye gave me to eat...ye gave me drink...ye took me in...ye clothed me;...ye visited me...ye came unto me. Mt 25:34-36

 

Enough of your silliness and spouting off. You trash up threads with your monotonous quips. I've made it abundantly clear the regenerate are the ones that are doers/fulfillers of the law several times over on this thread.

You're on IGNORE.

 

"....before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision."

Fickleness, I guess. What do you think?