they only show that they have the moral law written on their hearts (though now smudged and defaced by the Fall) so that they are without excuse when they don't keep it,
That's not at all what Paul is saying. This is
the law, not some made up fictional 'moral law' that evangelical faith-aloners like you want to make it out to be.
It never ceases to amaze me how tore up and getting your 'drawers in a twist' from that very simple descriptor/label/euphemism "doers of the law" that Paul is using causes you 'faith-aloners'. It's comical. It's somehow too deep for you to grasp. I've derived much entertainment on this board over the years by triggering/trolling you all with it, and I suppose I will continue to do so. Thank you for the exercise.
Someone who is patient in well-doing is a 'doer of the law':
7 to them that by
patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption,
eternal life: Ro 2
Someone who is working good is a 'doer of the law':
10 but
glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek: Ro 2
Someone doing the things of the law by nature is a 'doer of the law':
14 (for when Gentiles that have not the law
do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves; Ro 2
Someone who loves his neighbor is a 'doer of the law':
8 Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for
he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. Ro 13
Someone who works no ill towards their neighbor is a 'doer of the law':
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law. Ro 13
Someone who follows 'the golden rule' is a 'doer of the law':
12 All things therefore
whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for
this is the law and the prophets. Mt 7
Someone who delights in the law is a 'doer of the law':
22 For
I delight in the law of God after the inward man: Ro 7
Someone who is a doer of the word is a 'doer of the law':
22 | But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. Ja 1 |
...and no doubt there's many other examples of 'doers of the law' that is Paul's intent in Ro 2:13.
I never knew a guy so smug as you in being so wrong.
I've met several egotistic bigots like you, bent only on winning, never learning, never admitting that they're wrong. Nothing special or unique about you.
I've laid it out to you before, but you're such a legend in your own mind that
the utter simplicity of it is below you, and consequently escapes you.