Question: An old article on your site contains what I consider a false statement that could lead ...

Question: An old article on your site contains what I consider a false statement that could lead many astray: “For [Israel] eternal life came through keeping the Law....” It might be well to publish a correction as this statement could cause confusion.

Response: My statement should have said that eternal life was offered to Israel for keeping the Law. Of course, no one ever attained to it on that basis, because no one could keep the Law. Justification comes as a free gift of God’s grace through the finished work of Christ. Nor can one be sanctified (i.e., gain the victory over the practice of sin) by keeping the Law, because of the weakness of human flesh. The good news is that “what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh,” God accomplished in “sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin” (Rom:8:3-4 [3] For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: [4] That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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