SALVATION IS NOT “grace + nothing,” popularly taught as fact today.
SALVATION IS being born again + walking according to the Holy Spirit, not according to the flesh.
1) Jesus’ once-for-all sacrifice replaced the old covenant’s animal sacrifices.
2) The Holy Spirit has replaced the law — not “nothing.”
“But if you are LED BY THE SPIRIT you are not under the LAW.”
“For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But HE WHO SOWS TO THE SPIRIT will from the Spirit REAP ETERNAL LIFE.
– Galatians 5:18, 6:8
“so that the requirement of the LAW might be FULFILLED IN US, WHO WALK not according to the flesh but ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT.
..for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For ALL WHO ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT ARE THE SONS OF GOD.”
– Romans 8:4, 13-14
The former commandment is set aside because it was weak and ineffective (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced [the Holy Spirit], by which we draw near to God.
– Hebrews 7:18-19 TCENT