Originally Posted by
Al Swearengen
What if the thief would have been able to come down off the cross? Do you think maybe he would have gladly obeyed with his new chance at life?
Your analogy is flawed and severely biased. The pattern is always grace through faith, works then follow...faith without works is dead.
Any law...whether it come from man or Yah cannot save a person...NADA, ZIP, ZILCH....it can ONLY point out sin and direct you into the Way of living right...at least Yah's law (not man's)!
Had the man in your second scenario kept the entire law flawlessly his entire life...and did no sin...he could have made it. Not one "man" has done this...
But One did in our stead...Yeshua, our Salvation!