Law and THE Law

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garee said:
Both ideas can work I beleive.

I would think if it loses is savour to judge according to the letter of the law, grace could not come .

In order to receive the good news, the news that mankind is born dead in his trespasses and sins without God in this present world is according to the letter of the law . What preserves is more like the grace that we savour. In that way to one we are the sweet fragrance of new life and to another the salt of judgment .
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Actually we are to be salt and light in this world. Salt is good...it preserves what is right and good. We need to retain the savour of salt.

This is about righteousness and remaining humble and loving towards others. Many lose this quality as they go further into what they believe salvation to be. But any advancement that leaves off humility, kindness, and the basic love of others, is to be avoided. Otherwise how shall we regain our savour?

I will have to ponder more on the idea of judgment...
 
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garee said:
I would think that salt that is used in every sacrifice speaks more of judgment. Not so much as a preservative as more common idea.

We are the salt of the world as those who bring the letter of the law giving judgment to the word of God . like the thorn that pricked Saul side before he was converted, something to move a person to faith previously having none. Thorns are used like salt in the scriptures

Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Again to remind us of God's judgement

Genesis 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Salt destroys completely.
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Mark 9:49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

Here we see that indeed salt has to do with judgment...but in order to burn away impurities and preserve what is good.
 
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Mark 9:49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

Here we see that indeed salt has to do with judgment...but in order to burn away impurities and preserve what is good.
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What I see here is that salt represents faithfulness. We are preserved and judged according to faithfulness. All of our sacrifices (and even ourselves) will be measured by their faithfulness.

A covenant of salt (2 Chr. 13:5) ...is God's faithfulness as a promise if we remain faithful.

Mark 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltiness, with which will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

We are to judge with righteous judgment.
 
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Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

All meat offerings. This means that once we are weaned of milk...we can proceed to the real meat of the word which is the responsibility to be faithful and to love. Notice this...

Col. 4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
 
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Good examples, salt like fire seems to symbolize both in the Bible. We can see by comparing scripture with scripture that it represents God's judgment. A judgment that condemns the unrighteous, but that also makes the elect righteous through Christ being our substitute salt in judgment.

I think it helps us to understand as a encouragement as to what Christ said that without parables, hiding the spiritual understanding from the lost, Christ spoke not.

Christ working in both fire and salt as with

Daniel 3:25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

Salt to represent the barren land

Genesis 19:26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

It can be seen used the sea as salt water like the dead sea comparing to the living waters of the gospel

James 3:12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
 
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