What does Ellen White write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "I cannot keep the commandments, even though I pray for them."
Answer
The present writings emphasize that people without divine renewal are not able to fulfill God's commandments solely through their own efforts. Even with prayer and faith, human nature remains incapable of achieving complete obedience to the law. The texts instead stress the necessity of divine grace and the Holy Spirit for attaining sanctification and obedience to the law.
On the inability to keep the commandments
»\"While we are to be in harmony with God's law, we are not saved by the works of the law, yet we cannot be saved without obedience. But we cannot possibly keep the commandments of God without the regenerating grace of Christ.\«
Faith and Works FW 95.3 31.474
On human inability regarding the law
»\"The law demands righteousness, and this the sinner owes to the law; but he is incapable of rendering it. Man cannot possibly meet the demands of the law of God in human strength alone.\«
Christ Our Righteousness COR 116.4 983.783
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