To do good works or saved by the blood of Christ ?

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi

Every Chris­t­ian believe that they should do good works, that they should fol­low the law of the Prophets. How­ev­er they do not believe that a man can be jus­ti­fied by the good works.

For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is writ­ten, Cursed is every­one who does not keep on doing every­thing writ­ten in the book of the law.” Now it is clear no one is jus­ti­fied before God by the law, because the right­eous one will live by faith (On Jesus). But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becom­ing a curse for us.“Gala­tians 3 : 10 – 13

The above-men­tioned teach­ings and belief of the Chris­tians are based on Paul’s teach­ings and the New Tes­ta­ment, which are against the teach­ings of Old Testament.

In Old Tes­ta­ment, jus­ti­fi­ca­tion and for­give­ness from God is pos­si­ble with­out any faith in Christ and with­out any sal­va­tion through a blood atonement.

If my peo­ple, who belong to me, hum­ble them­selves, pray, seek to please me, and repu­di­ate their sin­ful prac­tices, then I will respond from heav­en, for­give their sin, and heal their land.“2 Chron­i­cles 7:14

This is also not­ed in the following :

Seek the Lord while he makes him­self available ;
call to him while he is nearby !
The wicked need to aban­don their lifestyle and sin­ful peo­ple their plans.
They should return to the Lord, and he will show mer­cy to them,
and to their God, for he will freely for­give them.
Isa­iah 55

It should also be not­ed that the New Tes­ta­ment also proves that the beliefs men­tioned in the Old Tes­ta­ment were quite enough for justification.

What good is it, my broth­ers and sis­ters, if some­one claims to have faith but does not have works ? Can this kind of faith save him ? you emp­ty fel­low, that faith with­out works is use­less ? Was not Abra­ham our father jus­ti­fied by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar ? You see that his faith was work­ing togeth­er with his works and his faith was per­fect­ed by works. And the scrip­ture was ful­filled that says, Now Abra­ham believed God and it was count­ed to him for right­eous­ness, and he was called God’s friend. You see that a per­son is jus­ti­fied by works and not by faith alone. And sim­i­lar­ly, was not Rahab the pros­ti­tute also jus­ti­fied by works when she wel­comed the mes­sen­gers and sent them out by anoth­er way ? For just as the body with­out the spir­it is dead, so also faith with­out works is dead.James 2 : 20 — 26

Con­clu­sion

After the (alleged) cru­ci­fic­tion of Jesus (P), if there is still need of doing good works and good deeds for for­giv­ing our sins, then the cru­ci­fix­ion of Jesus is with­out pur­pose, for there is already been the way of par­don­ing our sins, i.e. through good works as men­tioned in the Old Tes­ta­ment. Or, if there is no need to do good works and good deeds after believ­ing on the Jesus cru­ci­fi­ca­tion then it means Chris­tians are free to do crimes and sins.

There­fore this is, in our opin­ion, a doc­tri­nal para­dox and thus if the Chris­t­ian insists that mankind is saved by the blood of Jesus, we must there­fore allege that there is a Bible contradiction.

And only God knows best !

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