The butler does not tell the master of the house he is welcome here
Welcome home sir. Not that I have actually been around any butlers but that's what they say on tv.
Are they not the same thing? The law is our school master and all that...
Part of the problem is that Torah was never ment to be seen as the way of salvation but a path leading pointing the way to salvation. Torah has always been about seperating how we walk in a way that is pleasing to the Lord from living in Sin and seperation from Him. Torah is all about the Wise Virgins preparing themselves, and making themselves ready for the Bridegroom (Matt 25:10). We're are told and shown this multiple times in the Torah and by the Prophets. For example;
Habakkuk 2:4
Look at the proud: he is inwardly not upright;
but the righteous will attain life through trusting faithfulness.
Ezekiel 14:13-14
13 “Son of man, suppose a land sins against Me by trespassing grievously and I stretch out My hand over it, break off its staff of bread, send famine upon it and cut it off from man and beast. 14 Even if these three men—Noah, Daniel and Job—be in it, they would only deliver their own souls by their righteousness.” It is a declaration of
Adonai.
Only Daniel was of the seed of Abraham and under the Sinaitic covenant. The other two were Gentiles. "
Noah was a righteous man, faultless in his generation. Noah walked with God" (Gen. 6:9) Though a gentile, Noah knew what was clean and unclean and observed some Torah (how much more than what is shown in scripture if any, we don't know exactly), because he had a relationship with God. Job had a relationship aswell, Jewish tradition calls him the prophet of the Gentiles. He knew what was pleasing to God and went above and beyond what God's Torah would later instruct. That was because he loved Adonai. They were righteous because they had a relationship with the Lord. Torah was an expression of their love for God and that relationship.
Deuteronomy 10:16 -- "Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiffnecked (faithless) no longer."
Deuteronomy 30:6
6 Also
Adonai your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants—to love
Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul, in order that you may live.
Exodus 12:48-49
48 But if an outsider dwells with you, who would keep the Passover for
Adonai, all his males must be circumcised. Then let him draw near and keep it. He will be like one who is native to the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat from it. 49 The same
Torah applies to the native as well as the outsider who dwells among you.”
Torah is about showing God that you love him. Avoiding sin.
We are justified by faith, but faith without deeds is dead. (Gal. 2:16, James 2:26)
Logged on saw the thread had to post, take it easy.