What works did St. Paul condemn?

Question

Did he condemn the works of the law or the works through obedience to the Holy Spirit? Or was it all works?

Could it be that St. Paul taught this because of his conflicts with the Judaizers and it was directed at them only?

Answer 1

St paul was not an antinomian( lawless disregarder of the Commandments of God and jesus' Apostolic traditions)

Paul condemned loveless legalism not the works of faith and love.
St Paul also did not in any way isolate faith,hope and love and did not teach the "cheap and false salvationism" that says one can do evil and go to heaven(whatever that would be since it would just a"high rentHell' overrun with all the vices of the unrepentant and uncleansed who cling to their vices)as long as one 'accepts Christ" verbally or in any way without conversion of life by grace which works not through some isolated'faith" but by real faith,hope and love

Answer 2

Paul, like Jesus, condemned the fastidious observances of Jewish legalism, not the moral law that made the Jews a holy people.

Col 2:16-17: "Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ."

St. Paul is a follower of Jesus, though fundamentalists confuse him with the Christ. He was teaching the Gospel of Jesus:

Mark 7:19: "For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods "clean.")

Mark 2:27: Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath."

Neither Jesus nor Paul condemned the works of the Spirit:

Matt 25:34 "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'"

Gal 5:22 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control."

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 3

What he said was that anything which did not proceed from faith was sin.

So if two people did the same "good work" and one did it only to get a reward from God or avoid God's punishment....and the other did it because He trusted God and His goodness, The first would gain nothing in God's eyes while the second would be commended by God.

Answer 4

Galatians 2

15"We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners' 16know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.

17"If, while we seek to be justified in Christ, it becomes evident that we ourselves are sinners, does that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! 18If I rebuild what I destroyed, I prove that I am a lawbreaker. 19For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. 20I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!"[d]

Answer 5

i'll take works of the law for 200 Mr. Trebeck

Answer 6

He also condemned anything that didn't make him look like Jesus' favorite.