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Some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling,DESIRING TO BE TEACHERS OF THE LAW;UNDERSTANDING NEITHER WHAT THEY SAY,NOR WHEREOF THEY AFFIRM.

Thankyou Ian for your input on this thread.Many here are learning about Grace for the first time I would imagine.

Mark you make me very sad by these comments of yours. I am praying for you.

Susan,

If you are concerned to guide Mark into the truth as you see it, then why not help him out in the way in which he requested by addressing each of the points that Gadsby raises in the article which Mark printed at the start of this thread?

And if that seems like too much 'work' to you (and I grant you, it could take a while), then why not start off just by explaining 1 Timothy 1:9 as we have both requested:

"Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient..."

How then is it a rule of life for the believer? It wasn't made for him was it? It isn't 'put on him' or 'laid on him' as a yoke, because he has Christ's yoke, and he isn't 'under' it, because he is 'under' grace.

(BTW it would be nice to have someone's own exegesis rather than just running off to more Geneva notes, MLJ, Luther etc. As I have shown we can quote Luther until the cows come home and get nowhere...)

Many thanks,
In Grace,
Ian