It always seemed to me that God gave us the law out of love for us; it has been a shock to read all the posts that are only against it. When people try to use it for what God did not give it to us to be used for, those things are against law. But God gave it to us for good, too, and it seems as if we are spitting in God’s face when we say it is only bad.
I set out to find out if there was any advantage to simply using law as a guide to living. When I looked at the Muslims trying to do that, using law as a guide produced meanness toward others, especially towards women. They seemed to ignore that love is the basis of all law or it isn’t of God.
I was told that the Jews used it for salvation, so I explored that idea. I couldn’t find that scripture ever told them to do that, although I found sects of their religion that thought that.
Then I gathered every book I could find about Jews using law as a guide to living. I was amazed at the advantages for them in this life that law gave them, although those advantages only seemed to apply when love for God and man was incorporated with law.
I can’t summarize all the many books I read about this lifestyle in one post, but the advantages were in happier marriages, better education of their people, economic security through helping each other, a feeling of togetherness in the community, such honesty in dealings they were trusted when others weren’t trusted, I could go on and on. However, it always seemed to take a community working together for this lifestyle as relationships were so much a part of it.
My conclusion was that there were advantages to law alone if love was included. I am not promoting law without the HS to guide, law used for salvation when it simply is incapable of being used for that, or law for any reason at all except for love of the Lord and helping create a good life here on earth.
I have been told I am a liar, I am going to hell, I have been personally threatened for saying these things. I hope someone will respond to these ideas of scripture without threatening me personally.
I set out to find out if there was any advantage to simply using law as a guide to living. When I looked at the Muslims trying to do that, using law as a guide produced meanness toward others, especially towards women. They seemed to ignore that love is the basis of all law or it isn’t of God.
I was told that the Jews used it for salvation, so I explored that idea. I couldn’t find that scripture ever told them to do that, although I found sects of their religion that thought that.
Then I gathered every book I could find about Jews using law as a guide to living. I was amazed at the advantages for them in this life that law gave them, although those advantages only seemed to apply when love for God and man was incorporated with law.
I can’t summarize all the many books I read about this lifestyle in one post, but the advantages were in happier marriages, better education of their people, economic security through helping each other, a feeling of togetherness in the community, such honesty in dealings they were trusted when others weren’t trusted, I could go on and on. However, it always seemed to take a community working together for this lifestyle as relationships were so much a part of it.
My conclusion was that there were advantages to law alone if love was included. I am not promoting law without the HS to guide, law used for salvation when it simply is incapable of being used for that, or law for any reason at all except for love of the Lord and helping create a good life here on earth.
I have been told I am a liar, I am going to hell, I have been personally threatened for saying these things. I hope someone will respond to these ideas of scripture without threatening me personally.
