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Dom says Post 202 He also told the one thief who proclaimed Jesus as the King, that the thief would be in the covenant that day.
Err... which covenant was that Dom Benincasa? The new covenant started on the day of Pentecost, and the thief died 40 days before.
...no one can brag that they made it to heaven on their own. But you don't see that.
What I do see is people without the Word following another God-given way, the way God uses to direct people away from sin and toward doing right -- the conscience. That doesn't fit the defn of the self-righteous who do things their way, not God's way.
Galatians 2:16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
But, even though you read those words you say
Romans 2:12–16 negates those words?
Why do you confuse these who follow the God-given conscience with those who follow the law?