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So you think all the others don't matter anymore the way you interpret this verse, huh? Maybe you should include the rest of that scripture.
John 3:23 [SUP]23 [/SUP]And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. [SUP]24 [/SUP]The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
You need to read the whole Bible, not just what you want. You also just jumped right over the verses I posted in the above posts. But I'm used to this. People just force the Bible to say what they want it to say. Why don't you look up ALL the verses in the Bible that speak of the commandments? All you've done and people like you is to twist the word "commandments" into "Jesus changed those commandments: now He only means what He said in this verse or that to be commandments."
You show me one verse where Christ says He has done away with even one jot or tittle, that we no longer need to keep even one. No, you just show me parts of scripture where He says to keep specific ones.
Matthew 5:19
Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
1 John:2-4
If someone claims, "I know God," but doesn't obey God's commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth.
John 15:10
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. (This one shows the difference between the laws that were fulfilled (the shadows and the sacrificial laws) and the commandments of God.
1 John 2:3
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Revelation 12:17
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus Christ.
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See, the thing is, Christ is actually real. His message is actually from Him, a real Person. The Bible isn't just some book we can twist into a belief system that's easily followed and makes us feel good. We don't make it fit our version of truth. We have to seek HIS truth. The modern Christian world has made it a lie. They ignore what Christ REALLY said. And it continues. I'm sure you can and will cough up more verses here and there, throwing aside all the others that obviously contradict, to show me you're sure you're right about your interpretation. But truth will remain truth all the same. We'll each answer to God for the truth we represented.
John 3:23 [SUP]23 [/SUP]And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. [SUP]24 [/SUP]The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
You need to read the whole Bible, not just what you want. You also just jumped right over the verses I posted in the above posts. But I'm used to this. People just force the Bible to say what they want it to say. Why don't you look up ALL the verses in the Bible that speak of the commandments? All you've done and people like you is to twist the word "commandments" into "Jesus changed those commandments: now He only means what He said in this verse or that to be commandments."
You show me one verse where Christ says He has done away with even one jot or tittle, that we no longer need to keep even one. No, you just show me parts of scripture where He says to keep specific ones.
Matthew 5:19
Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
1 John:2-4
If someone claims, "I know God," but doesn't obey God's commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth.
John 15:10
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. (This one shows the difference between the laws that were fulfilled (the shadows and the sacrificial laws) and the commandments of God.
1 John 2:3
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Revelation 12:17
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus Christ.
__________
See, the thing is, Christ is actually real. His message is actually from Him, a real Person. The Bible isn't just some book we can twist into a belief system that's easily followed and makes us feel good. We don't make it fit our version of truth. We have to seek HIS truth. The modern Christian world has made it a lie. They ignore what Christ REALLY said. And it continues. I'm sure you can and will cough up more verses here and there, throwing aside all the others that obviously contradict, to show me you're sure you're right about your interpretation. But truth will remain truth all the same. We'll each answer to God for the truth we represented.
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If you go back in history to when Paul and Peter were taking the gospel to the gentiles, you find that the Christian Jews didn't once think that Christ required them to eat pig they considered just not food, to take down their mezuzah, to eat with dirty hands. And they didn't think it was required to let people who did this in their synagogue. That was the only scripture then and where the new Christians needed to go. And the gentiles said that if they had to do the things those weird Jews did then Christ wasn't worth it. You read of the clash over this in Galatians. Paul called it "the law". When by 132 most Jews were killed in that revolution, it was gentiles left. They got so worked up over those awful Jews, it got to be illegal to do anything they did. We are still quoting Paul giving reasons to dispose of the whole thing and it is expanded right up to the ten commandments. That isn't of God at all.
Actually, when Christians throw out the examples of sin, they are throwing out Christ.
We have a covenant with Christ. Christ will supernaturally cleanse us of all our sin, but our part of it is repentance. We can't do our part if we deny sin. We can say we have the explanation of what sin is given to us through the Holy Spirit, but if that explanation we are given is different than the one given by God in scripture, something is wrong and it can't be scripture. So our denial of scripture's ability to tell us of sin results in our inability to recognize what we are to turn from so we cannot fulfill our part in the covenant. It stops the ability of Christ to do His part.
Actually, when Christians throw out the examples of sin, they are throwing out Christ.
We have a covenant with Christ. Christ will supernaturally cleanse us of all our sin, but our part of it is repentance. We can't do our part if we deny sin. We can say we have the explanation of what sin is given to us through the Holy Spirit, but if that explanation we are given is different than the one given by God in scripture, something is wrong and it can't be scripture. So our denial of scripture's ability to tell us of sin results in our inability to recognize what we are to turn from so we cannot fulfill our part in the covenant. It stops the ability of Christ to do His part.
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All 10 instructions are in full effect.
The first 3 match Jesus's instruction to love God.
The second 7 match Jesus's instruction to love others.
You gotta keep them because you don't want to cause hurt, not because they are "commandments"
Really really deep in your heart, because you really love and care for other people.
Love them all.
The first 3 match Jesus's instruction to love God.
The second 7 match Jesus's instruction to love others.
You gotta keep them because you don't want to cause hurt, not because they are "commandments"
Really really deep in your heart, because you really love and care for other people.
Love them all.
We are living in a world where the line between decency and indecencies is being dimmed so we cannot protect our children. Youth gangs in the cities make drive by shooting. Our churches, and many sincere Christians on this very site, are saying not to go by the written law, using the Holy Spirit giving us law, too, as a reason, so we can have nothing concrete to point to as sin. There are forces working in our world that oppose our knowing exactly what is sin. Our world is in a serious crisis, so whenever those who know God and are not being used by forces that are for sin have an opportunity to speak for God, they use that opportunity to speak.
Eph_6:12
For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.
So our answers aren't only about you, but they are battling the forces that do not want us to have the ten commandments.
Eph_6:12
For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.
So our answers aren't only about you, but they are battling the forces that do not want us to have the ten commandments.