GS: Salvation by Works Christians
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Salvation by Works Christians
In Acts we find based in the church at Jerusalem a sect of Christians advocating "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved." Acts 15:1 and "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses." Acts 15:5 Paul said of them, "This matter arose because some false brothers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves." Gal 2:4 These were the sect of the Circumcision.
While they were "a little leaven", they ended up "leavening the whole lump" as Paul said, "This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump." Gal 5:8,9 From that origin there developed Neo-Circumcision sects such as Catholicism that came to dominate the Christian community to this day. For example, Canon 20 of the Catholic Council of Trent states that, "If anyone says that a man who is justified and however perfect is not bound to observe the commandments of God and the Church, but only to believe, as if the Gospel were a bare and absolute promise of eternal life without the condition of observing the commandments, let him be anathema." and "The Council of Trent teaches that the Ten Commandments are obligatory for Christians and that the justified man is still bound to keep them; the Second Vatican Council confirms: "The bishops, successors of the apostles, receive from the Lord . . . the mission of teaching all peoples, and of preaching the Gospel to every creature, so that all men may attain salvation through faith, Baptism and the observance of the Commandments." Neo-Circumcision sects reject the gospel of grace, despising it and opposing those who believe it.
And there are many salvation-by-works Christians outside of Catholicism as well who, like the Circumcision, make salvation out to be contingent upon religious rituals and upon law - the keeping of commandments. Though they may argue among themselves as to what laws one needs to keep to be saved, yet they are all of the spirit of the Circumcision regarding their faith. They typically misconstrue scripture in the following manner.
In Acts we find based in the church at Jerusalem a sect of Christians advocating "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved." Acts 15:1 and "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses." Acts 15:5 Paul said of them, "This matter arose because some false brothers had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves." Gal 2:4 These were the sect of the Circumcision.
While they were "a little leaven", they ended up "leavening the whole lump" as Paul said, "This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump." Gal 5:8,9 From that origin there developed Neo-Circumcision sects such as Catholicism that came to dominate the Christian community to this day. For example, Canon 20 of the Catholic Council of Trent states that, "If anyone says that a man who is justified and however perfect is not bound to observe the commandments of God and the Church, but only to believe, as if the Gospel were a bare and absolute promise of eternal life without the condition of observing the commandments, let him be anathema." and "The Council of Trent teaches that the Ten Commandments are obligatory for Christians and that the justified man is still bound to keep them; the Second Vatican Council confirms: "The bishops, successors of the apostles, receive from the Lord . . . the mission of teaching all peoples, and of preaching the Gospel to every creature, so that all men may attain salvation through faith, Baptism and the observance of the Commandments." Neo-Circumcision sects reject the gospel of grace, despising it and opposing those who believe it.
And there are many salvation-by-works Christians outside of Catholicism as well who, like the Circumcision, make salvation out to be contingent upon religious rituals and upon law - the keeping of commandments. Though they may argue among themselves as to what laws one needs to keep to be saved, yet they are all of the spirit of the Circumcision regarding their faith. They typically misconstrue scripture in the following manner.
- Confusing Old Covenant justification with New Covenant justification.
- Appending all commands in the New Testament to Christians with "in order to be saved".
- Confusing the Conditions for Salvation with the Conditions of the Saved. That is, misconstruing the effect of salvation with the cause of salvation, misconstruing the fruit as the root.
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