Self-righteousness is a sure path to death in Hell…

You cannot keep the Commandments, the Law of the Covenant or the Law of Conscience sufficiently to be saved by self-righteousness (Romans 3:20; James 2:10; Galatians 3:10)…it WON’T happen because you’re a sinner condemned by the Law to death in Hell (Romans 3:23; Galatians 3:10). If you trust in yourself, your facade of goodness and obedience to please the Father and thereby believe you are qualified to earn your own way into God’s grace, you will die with the “many” in Hell (Matthew 7:13-14).

Your only hope for life in eternity with God is by humbling yourself before Him as an unworthy sinner and asking forgiveness for your sin and confessing with your mouth and believing in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, Messiah, Savior, Redeemer, and that Jesus died for you to pay your sin-debt owed the Father (Romans 10:9-10; John 3)…a debt you could never pay by attempting to be “good enough” to please God.

Subsequent to confessing Jesus as your Lord, you’ll receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as the promise, seal, Guarantor, of covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14) and from that point forward, the Holy Spirit will walk you in sanctification, daily, and you will be incrementally transformed into a vessel of obedience by which you can honor God (Galatians 5:16), but until you’ve admitted that you’re incapable of pleasing God in self-righteousness, you will continue to exist in futility, anger, hate, an odd mix of self-loathing (Isaiah 48:22; 57:21).
Honoring God by pursuing obedience is only relevant SUBSEQUENT to becoming His child by faith in Jesus; until you’ve established covenant relationship by faith in Jesus as Lord, your works of obedience, on your best day, are equated to a filthy, bloody, menstrual, cloth in God’s nose (Isaiah 64:6; Ephesians 2:8-9).

What is your only hope in this life and in the life to come? Trust completely in the sufficiency of Jesus Christ as the One who performed the work of redemption for you on a Roman Cross 2000-years ago and find peace with God the Father, forever (Romans 5:1).

Skeptic asked: “If Jesus could not save Himself, how can He save you?“

Jesus, God in flesh, could have rejected the Father’s will and permitted the Devil to have victory over your sinful soul and thereby allowed you to die in Hell without hope but Jesus, even though horrified by the Cross and spiritual separation from the Father, endured unconscionable beating and suffocation upon a Roman Cross in order that His innocent blood would be shed as atonement for your sin (Matthew 26:28; Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 9:22). Jesus performed this sacrificial act out of selfless love for the Father and the Father’s will for you and your eternity.

Don’t disparage what God has done for you within the Realm of Time so that you can attain victory over the Devil as God is restoring peace and order to His Kingdom that was ravaged by the Devil’s rebellion. Don’t die as a subject of the Devil but die in body in victory in Jesus and live with God forever in that victory (John 3). Trust – believe in Jesus as your Lord and believe that Jesus died for you to pay your sin-debt owed the Father and live with God, forever, in peace (John 14:6; John 3; Romans 5:1).

Eternal security in Law v. Eternal security by Grace through Faith…

Response to a law keeper who denies eternal security for the one who trusts in Jesus as Lord…

Everyone of your Scriptures emanates from a dispensation of Law and works of the Law which had absolutely nothing to do with salvation. A man under the Law can repent till his dying breath and die in Hell lest his repentance was accompanied by faith in God with a heart that believes God is true, that He exists, and will forgive man’s sin through faith. Even though those in the Hebrew Scriptures could be justified before God through faith (Hebrews 11), their sin had not received the mandated blood atonement first pictured in Genesis 3:21, articulated in Leviticus 17:11, demonstrated by the blood sacrifices under the Law (Hebrews 10).

The Hebrew Scriptures denote a wholly different dispensation and working of the Holy Spirit; for example, in the Hebrew Scriptures, the Holy Spirit was only given to certain specified individuals as an anointing for a specific work or responsibility for God’s purposes and the Holy Spirit could be removed for disobedience (Psalm 51:11).

Fast forward to the New Covenant of grace through faith in Jesus as Lord where the Holy Spirit is given as Guarantor of Covenant Relationship with God the Father, forever (Ephesians 1:13-14). In the New Covenant, the one who is truly born again by faith in Jesus and has received the indwelling Holy Spirit as the Seal of that covenant will endure to the end…they are forever God’s property and He has set His seal upon them and nothing will ever snatch them out of God’s hands (John 10:28-30).

Finally, Christianity is NOT lawlessness but is a Covenant of obedience through the indwelling Holy Spirit that is far superior to the Covenant of Law that sought obedience through the weakness of sinful flesh (Romans 8; 2 Corinthians 3; Hebrews 8; Galatians 5:16;).

Do Christians “attack” the Ten Commandments as claimed by Jews and other Law Keepers?

Christians don’t “attack” the Ten-Commandments…it’s simply the fact that the Holy Spirit within them teaches that the Ten-Commandments were given to a specified, specific, people group for a specified, specific, covenant and that the Commandments are not to be worshiped nor is the Decalogue a path to righteousness (a right standing) with God (Galatians 2:16); the Holy Spirit teaches that only by faith in the One which the Commandments point, Jesus Christ, will righteousness (a right standing) with God manifest leading to eternal life through the forgiveness of sin via the imputation of Messiah righteousness (Romans 8; 2 Corinthians 5:21).

Those who seek righteousness with God through a facade of obedience to the Commandments, exemplified by the religion of Judaism and Christian cults, are existing in the lie of self-righteousness (Galatians 2:16) through Law (a works salvation) and they are therefore destined to the “second death” in Hell because only by faith in the One who kept the Law for us in perfection, Jesus Christ (Matthew 5:17), will a man or woman find righteousness (a right standing) with God, eternally, through the imputation of Jesus’ righteousness into our life by faith in Him as our Lord (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Jesus as our Lord, believing Jesus died to pay our sin-debt owed the Father, is the only “Way” to righteousness with the Father (John 14:6) and NO, Christianity is NOT lawlessness but Christianity is obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit through sanctification; a Law infinitely superior to the Law of the Covenant. Christians do not strive after rules-regulations-edicts-letters in Stone of a bygone covenant that only condemned void atonement (Hebrews 8; 2 Corinthians 3).

If Jesus is God, why did He ascend to His God? John 20:17

Jesus ascended because He first descended into the Realm of Time to provide blood atonement for your sin thereby paving the Path to eternal life for the one who believes in Him as Messiah-Lord-Redeemer who died for them to pay their sin-debt (John 3:16); otherwise, you would be lost in hopelessness and the path to death in Hell would be without detour (Matthew 26:28; John 14:6; John 8:24; Acts 4:12). Jesus’ entrance into Time as Spirit in human flesh (John 4:24; Philippians 2:5-11) is now eternal through His resurrection and those who believe in Him as Lord will also receive a resurrected body fashioned after His resurrected body and this body will be used in service to Jesus Christ our Lord and King and God in the New Jerusalem, forever (1 Corinthians 15:20; Philippians 3:21).

Jesus is God, eternally…Jesus is the same yesterday, today, forever (Hebrews 13:8) and His entrance into Time “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b) through the Crucifixion did not nullify His deity but verified it for the one who believes and receives the Holy Spirit as their Wisdom and Discernment (Ephesians 1:13-14; 1 John 2:27). Jesus ascended to the Father because Jesus and the Father have been ONE throughout eternity (John 17:5; John 10:30; John 14:8-10) and our resurrected Lord will the One you serve in the New Jerusalem IF you repent of your sin and sincerely believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord who died for you (Romans 10:9-10).

Jews seek a sign; Gentiles seek wisdom. Why can’t these come to a knowledge of the Truth in Jesus Christ?

Until such time one humbles them self before God the Father, repents of sin, sincerely trusts in Jesus as Lord and receives the Holy Spirit as their Tutor, Knowledge and Wisdom, they remain foreigners of God and His promises and the deeper truths of Scripture never penetrate the hardened heart of unbelief; this eternal truism is relevant for Jew, Israelite, Gentile. The “natural man” cannot please God as the Father can only be approached and communed with through the Son and the Spirit (John 14:6; Ephesians 1:13-14).

It is written,

“21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22 For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness, 24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

1 Corinthians 1:21-24 (NASB)

If Jesus effectively destroyed the works of the Devil (1 John 3:8b) why does death remain?

Death remains because of the curse (Romans 5:12; Ezekiel 18:20) and God’s faithfulness to His word; death of the body will manifest for disobedience as God warned in The Beginning but God’s objective does NOT focus upon the flesh but on the spirit of man created in His image (Genesis 1:26-28).

We ARE spiritual beings encapsulated within a decaying body of flesh; this body of flesh is only a temporary “tent” for God’s purposes (2 Corinthians 5:1) in a World constrained by Time and physics and that tent will be torn down by death but the spirit remains…again…this existence within the Realm of Time and physics is simply an object lesson and we’re players in the midst of an unfathomable cosmic struggle that is rooted in the spiritual NOT the carnal.

The horror of sin continues as the object lesson continues and soon the peace of the Millennial Kingdom will display the final, stark, differentiation between God’s sovereign will and peace that reigns through obedience v. horror that reigns in disobedience. In the Kingdom, a thousand years is as is a day…God is NOT slow concerning His promises (2 Peter 3:8-9) and the faithful in Jesus WILL endure to the end (Matthew 24:13; Jude 1:24).

The Son of God entered Time specifically “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b). Was He successful?

Yes. Messiah Jesus effectively destroyed death, Hell, the grave, at Golgotha by selfless love for those who believe in Him as Lord by covenant promise and the Devil is now being used in these last days by God to separate wheat from chaff; sheep from goats; the faithful from the unfaithful; this, as this entire debacle in Time is an object lesson for the faithful angelic creation that remain in the Kingdom in servitude to God that faithfulness, loyalty, obedience, are essential for peace and harmony to exist among the brethren and the object lesson of horror upon the Earth over the previous 6000-years will be an effective deterrent, a bulwark, against future rebellion as free will remains extant by necessity.

Why did Elohim destroy all but eight by water and subsequently focus primarily upon Noah and Shem?

The focus of Scripture, its purpose, is to reveal Elohim’s eschatological plan, His battle strategy, to restore peace and order to His Kingdom that was disrupted before Time by a rebellion initiated by God’s anointed cherub angel we know as the Devil, Lucifer-Satan-the Evil One-Serpent. From the Genesis (Genesis 3:15;21) to the Revelation, Elohim’s focus has been upon His battle strategy, the Gospel ordained before Time began (2 Timothy 1:9-10), through which He would “destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b); unfortunately, the Adamic/Noahic generations became so defiled (Genesis 6) that it was not possible for Elohim to set-apart a people group after His own Name through whom He would introduce His Warrior, His Messiah, into the Realm of Time; therefore, Elohim destroyed all of mankind save eight and focused upon Noah and Shem and Arphaxad through whom came Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the Twelve Tribes of Israel through whom Judah was to be the deliverer of Messiah in Time.