FLOYD ROGERS

The message of the gospel is clear: salvation comes by grace through faith, and nothing else. No one can earn eternal life by following rules, keeping rituals, or obeying commandments alone. The purpose of the law — including the Ten Commandments — was never to provide salvation. Instead, it was meant to reveal our inability to live perfectly and show our need for God’s grace.

Long ago, people under the Mosaic Law could not achieve salvation by keeping it, and the same is true today. Trying to be saved by obeying the Ten Commandments will always fall short because no one can fully meet those standards. Both then and now, people are saved by placing their faith in God’s grace through Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 2:8-9 (NASB) tells us, “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” Salvation has always been, and will always be, a gift received by faith, not earned by deeds.

because by the works of the Law none of mankind will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:20