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Originally Posted by Evangelical
The contradiction is between the shadow (the law) and the reality (Christ). Micah 6:8 belongs to the period when the law was to point towards Christ. The written & moral law for Jews and the moral law for Gentiles. Both types of law are meant to show us our inability to keep it, and move us towards Christ.
Pleasing God is salvation. Being only a moral person does not please Him:
Heb 11: 6 And without faith it is impossible to please God
You see Micah 6:8 mentions nothing about faith in order to please God.
Micah 6:8 says God requires us to be humble and act rightly.
But Jesus told us what God requires of us here in John 6:29
Jesus told them, "This is the only work God wants from you: Believe in the one he has sent.
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Are you saying Micah only wrote about the shadow so it is not God's revelation? But you said the law was to point towards Christ. How about the ten commandments? They are shadows and not God's revelation?
You said being
only a moral person cannot please God as if it is achievable by humans alone. Yet you said we are unable to keep moral laws.
Don't you see the contradiction inside your thoughts?
Micah actually did point us to Christ as the Way to fulfill these "moral laws" so to speak. Perhaps only the veiled Isralites missed the point.