Let us review: The Law of God shows us His character and divine standard. It merely determines what is right and what is wrong, but it cannot make us right:
“Know that a man is not justified by observing the law, rather through the Law we become conscious of sin”. (Romans 3:20).
That is why God, in His mercy, offers us His own righteousness. Speaking about the Jews who rigidly tried to keep the Law, the New Testament says:
“I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness”. (Romans 10:2, 3).
That is why it says of Abraham, the father of faith, that…
“. . . he believed God and He credited it to him as righteousness”. Genesis 15:6, Rom. 4:3, 20-22).
I just wonder now, how you, as a Muslim, will react to this (for you) possibly very foreign message or revelation. That, in fact, is the Gospel! It tells you – as it did to the Jews – that by trying to establish merit or righteousness before God, you actually do not submit to God!
“So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.” (Gal 3:24)
The basis of our faith in God is that we can do nothing to earn eternal life, but depend on His rescue, and that is called salvation. Salvation is to be forgiven, pardoned. Actually, it is more than a pardon that is offered to us. God actually says:
“I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more”. (Jeremiah 31:34).
“You (God) will cast all our sins into the depth of the sea”. (Micah 7:19).
“As far as the east is from the west, so far does He remove our transgressions from us”. (Psalm 103:12).
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