Mr. Potts,

I find little to respond to in your reply above as it is simply your same old rhetoric; e.g., insisting that Paul's warnings about having begun by faith and then falling back into works applies to sanctification as well as justification. But the truth is, that should someone who claims to be justified by faith alone thereafter believe that the keeping of the law has merit, that this keeping of the moral law make him/her more acceptable to God, then this is not sanctification which is in jeopardy, but justification. Again, you are blinded to this truth which the overwhelming majority of believers throughout history have discovered from the Spirit's teaching them this in the Scriptures. But you say you couldn't care less what other believer's have believed and churches have taught, etc.. except for the writings of a few men who beg to differ.

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I read your quote from Luther and saw little to contradict my position in it. If you and I read the same Bible and differ in our understanding, is it any wonder that we would disagree on what Luther says too?
Isn't this just another way of saying, "The only thing that is absolute is relativity."? Are you saying that we as men will find it impossible to discover the truth of what another has said or written? That's a sad commentary on the intellectual ability of the human race, don't you think? However, contrary to your dissimulation, again the vast and overwhelming majority of intelligent, god-fearing men and women, who believe on Christ and call upon the Spirit to guide them into all truth, have read Martin Luther, but more importantly the Bible, and have understood both as holding fast to the same truth which I and nearly everyone else here believes: The moral law of God is perpetually binding upon all men, believers not excepted, as a rule of life and guide to holiness.

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Romans 7:14-25 (ASV) "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do. But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good. So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me. For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good [is] not. For the good which I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practise. But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me. I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."

In His Grace,

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