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What Paul was trying to communicate was that keeping the law was worthless, and that the reason the law was given in the first place was to be the backdrop that revealed to us our sinfulness. He lays it all out in the book of Hebrews (he is purported to be the author, but no true authorship has been identified) He was addressing his letter to the jewish christians that were going back to the law for justification, in insisting that the new converts had to be circumsized. Paul pointed out that in making the converts subject to the law, they were in fact voiding the death and resurrection of Jesus, by saying that it was not enough to truly attone for the sins of man. In romans Paul said that we should not continue to sin that grace may increase, but that we should offer up ourselves as a "living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God" and that the only way we do this act of love for God is by submitting our flesh to his will and purposes. That having been said, yes, you could go nail a critter and still be forgiven, and by no means lose your salvation. It just is not a good idea to do it because it isn't good for you.
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