Is Law a Schoolmaster which fails every student?

Question

All who tried to attain righteousness(grace) of the law failed to attain it: Romans 9:31

By laws all perish: Colossians 2:20-22?
Law: the ministration of death: 2Cor3:7?
The strength of death sting: 1Cor15:56?
The snare of the devil: 1Tim & 2Tim?

Answer 1

good way of putting it ... :

"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." - Galatians 2:16.

"You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace." - Galatians 5:4.

Answer 2

The law that was a schoolmaster was the Sacrificial Laws. Every time someone sinned an animal had to be killed, but that law was never so because as long as you had that animal to sacrifce you could keep repeating that sin over and over again. It was put in place until Jesus was to come to be the perfect sacrifice for our sins (Galatians (3:19) Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.)
Although an animal had to bear the death penalty so the sinner could be forgiven, the blood of an animal could not in itself take away sin. But it served as a teacher because it showed the sinner that God in forgiving sins was not ignoring them but was dealing with them. There is a price to pay for disobedience and that price is death. But we will see that the only blood that could take away sin is the blood of Jesus.

Now once he died for your sins you would be under his grace if you continued in his laws, statues, and commandments.
Hbr 10:26 ¶ For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Hbr 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Hbr 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

Answer 3

There was no righteousness under the Law of Moses. The Law of Moses was only a guide leading up to Christ. Jesus was the only mortal that ever lived up to the Law of Moses, so when His life was finished on the cross, He had filled the Law of Moses completely and it was nailed to the cross with him.

Saying that no forgiveness was under the Law, that is not to say these righteous people we not to be saved. They will be judged according to the law under which they lived and their eternity will be based on their acts during their lives just as it is today. The blood of Jesus will save the ones that obeyed God.

Answer 4

Some think the statement that we are not "under the law" means that the law is waived. Not so. What we are not "under" is the penalty for breaking the law . Since the wages of sin is death , it is this death penalty that is waived if you accept Christ's death as payment in full for breaking the law (sinning).

Answer 5

The book of Romans explains the concept of salvation by grace and grace alone. No one is capable of making it by law.