God's righteousness is eternal, therefore all of His instructions for how to testify about His righteousness are also eternal (Psalm 119:160).
I'm not seeing a good reason to interpret those verses as referring to the Law of God, especially because all of God's righteous laws are eternal. God did not make any mistakes when He gave His law, so he had no need to send Jesus to abolish His law. In Matthew 5:17, Jesus specifically said that he came not to abolish God's law, so saying that he abolished is calling him a liar. Likewise, in Romans 3:31, Paul said that our faith does not abolish God's law, but rather our faith upholds it, so Paul would also be contradicting himself. Eternal instructions for how to testify about God's eternal nature can't be abolished without first abolishing God.
In Ephesians 2:10, we are new creations in Christ to do good works, so it wouldn't make sense to think that Jesus did away with his instructions for how to do good works just a few verses later. In regard to Ephesians 2:14, God did not give any laws for the purpose of creating a dividing wall of hostility, but rather His law instructs us to love our neighbor as ourselves. In regard to Ephesians 2:15, justification needs to be given for why the Greek word "dogma" should be interpreted as referring to the Law of God when it refers to something other than the Law of God every other time it is used by the Bible. In Ephesians 2:12-19, Gentiles were at one time separated from Christ alienated from Israel, strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world, but through faith in Christ all of that is no longer true, so Gentiles are becoming joined to these things in accordance with obedience to the God's law, not Jews rejecting these things and becoming joined to Gentiles in accordance with God's law being abolished.
Indeed, one which involves following the Mosaic Law according to Jeremiah 31:33.
I'm not seeing a good reason to interpret those verses as referring to the Law of God, especially because all of God's righteous laws are eternal. God did not make any mistakes when He gave His law, so he had no need to send Jesus to abolish His law. In Matthew 5:17, Jesus specifically said that he came not to abolish God's law, so saying that he abolished is calling him a liar. Likewise, in Romans 3:31, Paul said that our faith does not abolish God's law, but rather our faith upholds it, so Paul would also be contradicting himself. Eternal instructions for how to testify about God's eternal nature can't be abolished without first abolishing God.
In Ephesians 2:10, we are new creations in Christ to do good works, so it wouldn't make sense to think that Jesus did away with his instructions for how to do good works just a few verses later. In regard to Ephesians 2:14, God did not give any laws for the purpose of creating a dividing wall of hostility, but rather His law instructs us to love our neighbor as ourselves. In regard to Ephesians 2:15, justification needs to be given for why the Greek word "dogma" should be interpreted as referring to the Law of God when it refers to something other than the Law of God every other time it is used by the Bible. In Ephesians 2:12-19, Gentiles were at one time separated from Christ alienated from Israel, strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world, but through faith in Christ all of that is no longer true, so Gentiles are becoming joined to these things in accordance with obedience to the God's law, not Jews rejecting these things and becoming joined to Gentiles in accordance with God's law being abolished.
Indeed, one which involves following the Mosaic Law according to Jeremiah 31:33.
God is good all of the time, but many read otherwise when the commandments rub them the wrong way.. He upbraided the Pharisees when they applied the law wrongly, as do so many do togay. If a law has no mercy it may be ignored.
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