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The law is a tool that we are to use and it foes NOT have only one purpose, to be used in only one way. Like any tool, it can be used in many ways. Its use to lead us to Christ is one wonderful way of using the law.

I love the first and the 119th Psalm, telling us of a way to use the law for building good in our lives. The law also tells us what kills.
You said: "The law is a tool that we are to use"

Can you find this being taught by the Apostles in their writings?
 
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How could a tool require perfection?

God requires perfection for us to be accepted in the kingdom of God. God gave us Christ, and through Christ's perfection we can achieve the perfection of Christ. We can't boas about our personal perfection, but we can boast about the perfection that is of Christ. It is as if we actually was able to keep the law.
This is a false hope and a false gospel -

i suggest you renew your mind with this: Ephesians 2:1-10

And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2in which you once walked according to the [a]course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

4But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
 

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How could a tool require perfection?

God requires perfection for us to be accepted in the kingdom of God. God gave us Christ, and through Christ's perfection we can achieve the perfection of Christ. We can't boas about our personal perfection, but we can boast about the perfection that is of Christ. It is as if we actually was able to keep the law.
I’m I’m not sure why your saying Gods law is a tool . It’s a law. What do you mean by tool ?

he requires perfection to enter the kingdom ? Can you sort of show the roots in scripture of this ? I honestly am not following what you mean there about a tool and God requiring perfection

and you believe we can achieve e same perfection of Christ ?
 

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You said: "The law is a tool that we are to use"

Can you find this being taught by the Apostles in their writings?
that’s sort of what I was wondering I can’t imagine remembering that in old or New Testament I think Moses law was a law that defines sin.
 
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that’s sort of what I was wondering I can’t imagine remembering that in old or New Testament I think Moses law was a law that defines sin.
If you dwell on what he is saying - it is frightening in the light of how serious and deadly the Law was/is.

Brother, have you been picking up on some things here.

The REST of God comes and people are still looking to earn favor with God - crazy.

Do you remember this - HS7 - when i said if you see this it is my abbreviation of the Holy Spirit.
 

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Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath:
Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

The Sabbath was one of many things that were shadows of things to come which means they would be fulfilled and replaced with something much greater.
 

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If you dwell on what he is saying - it is frightening in the light of how serious and deadly the Law was/is.

Brother, have you been picking up on some things here.

The REST of God comes and people are still looking to earn favor with God - crazy.

Do you remember this - HS7 - when i said if you see this it is my abbreviation of the Holy Spirit.
I believe it’s sister blick but not positive.
A lot of Christians don’t understand the seperation of the two covenants like the Jews didn’t at first

the thing is if we as an individual insist on the law it means we’re putting our own self back under it which is not a good thing at all as you know

i was actually really curious as to what she was saying about the law being a tool often we don’t understand what the other person is saying because they are using phrases unfamiliar to us and we are using terms not familiar to them

sometimes there’s agreement more than we know but terms and how we speak causes confusion we’re all from different places and have learned how to express words differently

if she’s saying we can learn from the law I agree it’s useful indeed in some ways it just has no authority over us we aren’t beholden to a single word of it its formoir leerning about what Christ has done for us

we learn about the atonement in its pattern , the priesthood in its pattern , the intercessor and mediator in its pattern ect it helps us understand e gospel for sure

im not sure what it’s a tool
Means
 

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If you dwell on what he is saying - it is frightening in the light of how serious and deadly the Law was/is.

Brother, have you been picking up on some things here.

The REST of God comes and people are still looking to earn favor with God - crazy.

Do you remember this - HS7 - when i said if you see this it is my abbreviation of the Holy Spirit.
yeah it’s definately terrifying I would not want to live under Moses law in fact I would have been stoned to death many years ago many times over if I was under it stuff of nightmares really

it would be terrible to have to witness against and stone your neighbors each time they disobeyed the law I remember once I realized that the witnesses had to be the first ones to cast the first stone. But it wasn’t about mercy a direct command that it must be done

And I think I do remember that yeah .
 

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You said: "The law is a tool that we are to use"

Can you find this being taught by the Apostles in their writings?
No, I can't find the words saying law is a tool in scripture.

I find the law is dead and has no power as a set of rules on a shelf, but has great power, we are told, when it is used in the many different ways scripture tells us to use it.
 

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No, I can't find the words saying law is a tool in scripture.

I find the law is dead and has no power as a set of rules on a shelf, but has great power, we are told, when it is used in the many different ways scripture tells us to use it.

A dead law has no power at all.
 

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A dead law has no power at all.
Right, a dead law as no power. It is only rules in stone, not our hearts. But when that law is used as a tool as God instructs us to use it, then that law that was dead becomes a mighty tool. It can kill or it can be used to walk with the Lord.
 

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No, I can't find the words saying law is a tool in scripture.

I find the law is dead and has no power as a set of rules on a shelf, but has great power, we are told, when it is used in the many different ways scripture tells us to use it.
what do you mean when you say it’s a tool ? Are you saying this ?

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:”
‭‭2 Timothy‬ ‭3:16‬ ‭KJV‬‬

if so I agree d understand what you mean it’s not at all useless if we understand it is not our law but is useful to teach Christians about Christ and the gospel
 

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Right, a dead law as no power. It is only rules in stone, not our hearts. But when that law is used as a tool as God instructs us to use it, then that law that was dead becomes a mighty tool. It can kill or it can be used to walk with the Lord.

A dead law has no power and cannot be used. It is dead. After it's death, it decayeth which is not much time means it completely decomposes and is gone. A new law has replaced it as part of a new covenant.

Heb 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
 

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A dead law has no power and cannot be used. It is dead. After it's death, it decayeth which is not much time means it completely decomposes and is gone. A new law has replaced it as part of a new covenant.

Heb 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
A major part of history is telling us of the laws of the kingdom of heaven. You are saying that this major part of scripture is dead and of no use to us. That does not make sense at all.

As I read Jeremiah telling of the new covenant, it says the law is written on our hearts, it does not say that the new covenant destroys the law.

God wrote the old covenant that He replaced with the new one that is better. You say that God destroyed what God had created. If God is not a dependable God, but can take all of what he has said back and destroy it, then God could not be depended on. The God I have learned of is dependable, always the same, and absolutely true to any word he has ever given.
 

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A major part of history is telling us of the laws of the kingdom of heaven. You are saying that this major part of scripture is dead and of no use to us.

Paul tells us that and it makes perfect sense. Do you not know what decayeth means?? A dead law is something to walk away from and ignore forever! Stop dragging that dead horse around and let that rotted corpse be. There is a beautiful and living law we are suppose to be following.
 

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Paul tells us that and it makes perfect sense. Do you not know what decayeth means?? A dead law is something to walk away from and ignore forever! Stop dragging that dead horse around and let that rotted corpse be. There is a beautiful and living law we are suppose to be following.
The old laws of the old covenant were given in stone, the new covenant had the laws given directly to our hearts and minds. We have the holy spirit within when we accept Christ within, it is through the holy spirit we are reminded to keep the law.

Under the old covenant there were fleshly commands given to remind them to keep the law. It was a mark on the skin to show they belonged to Christ, that mark is no longer needed, we have Christ. It was in choosing only foods from animals who ate clean foods that they were reminded to keep the information they accepted clean, now we have the holy spirit for that. Those old covenant commands are obsolete, they would only mean we don't depend on Christ. We are under the new covenant.

As scripture tells us, the law did not change, the method it was delivered changed. God is the same yesterday and today and always.
 

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Those old covenant commands are obsolete
Yes they are but many people teach otherwise.

As scripture tells us, the law did not change, the method it was delivered changed.
Wrong. The law didn't only change, it died and rotted away.
 

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Yes they are but many people teach otherwise.

Wrong. The law didn't only change, it died and rotted away.
Do you actually believe that the law not to murder, to not have other Gods, nor to take the name of the Lord in vain, not to steal or commit adultery and so on has been turned around, is dead, and we now can have Christ within and those sins within us? Such a strange life you are promoting.

According to the men who wrote the history of the time of Christ, they said the people were upset because the people who accepted the true God were told they also had to accept Jewish customs and first covenant commands. They called these commands law of Moses, and we read about that in the book of Acts. They are obsolete.
 

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Do you actually believe that the law not to murder, to not have other Gods, nor to take the name of the Lord in vain, not to steal or commit adultery and so on has been turned around, is dead, and we now can have Christ within and those sins within us?

As scripture says, the old law is dead and has rotted away. The new law covers sins like murder.
 

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As scripture says, the old law is dead and has rotted away. The new law covers sins like murder.
Would you please give me the scripture labelled new law that tells us not to murder?

In the sermon on the mount Christ explained the difference between the law in stone and the law in our hearts. He quoted the old law as it was written in stone, but I see no scripture there saying it the old law was cancelled. In fact Christ stated that the old law wasn't cancelled. Matt. 5"17 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.".

Christ then explained how we were to read the law in stone as people of the new covenant. It is in Matt. 5.