Attack of the Judaizers

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john832

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Likewise, the true purpose of the laws of defilement (persons, clothing, houses, food)

and the laws of purification, were for types and shadows to show the meaning of sin as spiritual defilement,

and its remedy to be through faith in the cleansing blood of Christ (Ro 3:25).

The sacrificial laws, as well as the defilement laws (persons, clothing, houses, food) and the purification laws were all temporary, and for the purpose of foreshadowing the nature and work of Christ Jesus.

The reality of them is now here, and the shadows, patterns, copies have passed away (Heb 9:10;
Col 2:16-17).

And actually, the priesthood was changed (Heb 7:12), it is the law with its commands and regulations
that was set aside (Heb 7:18-19) and abolished (Eph 2:15).
So this is ceremonial?

Deu 23:12 "Also you shall have a place outside the camp, where you may go out;
Deu 23:13 and you shall have an implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your refuse.

Or this...

Deu 22:8 "When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it.

Or the laws concerning quarantine?

Lev 15:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.
Lev 15:3 And this shall be his uncleanness in regard to his discharge—whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is stopped up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness.
Lev 15:4 Every bed is unclean on which he who has the discharge lies, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.
Lev 15:5 And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:6 He who sits on anything on which he who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:7 And he who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:8 If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:9 Any saddle on which he who has the discharge rides shall be unclean.
Lev 15:10 Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until evening. He who carries any of those things shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:11 And whomever the one who has the discharge touches, and has not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:12 The vessel of earth that he who has the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

these are health and safety laws.
 

JesusLives

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I went through this argument at great length already before and it's way too soon for me to repeat myself.... when heaven and earth passes so will the stroke of pen in the law and like the stroke of pen so will those who live under it.

So what does one do with that pesky little word Obey?
 

john832

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So what does one do with that pesky little word Obey?
Why to hear some around here, you do not have to obey, Jesus did it all for you. You are free to live anyway you wish, God is just thrilled that you have deigned to say the magic words.
 
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This is good, confession and testimony; Without them we will not be saved. "if we believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths Jesus as Lord, we will be saved". Rom.10: 9-10 Jesus is "the sourse of eternal life to as many as obey Him". Heb.5:9. Even water baptism "saves", because we must give a good confession "of a good conscience" .1Pet.3:21 And this is why James 2:24 says "a man is justified by works and not by faith only". Hoffco
 
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This is good, confession and testimony time; Without them we will not be saved. "if we believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths Jesus as Lord, we will be saved". Rom.10: 9-10 Jesus is "the sourse of eternal life to as many as obey Him". Heb.5:9. Even water baptism "saves", because we must give a good confession "of a good conscience" .1Pet.3:21 And this is why James 2:24 says "a man is justified by works and not by faith only". Hoffco
 
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Why to hear some around here, you do not have to obey, Jesus did it all for you. You are free to live anyway you wish, God is just thrilled that you have deigned to say the magic words.
well... He did do it all for us.
But that doesn't mean we can live lawlessly.

If you are saying that you can go to hell after Christ saved you from it, you are contradicting yourself, and the Word.
However, if a person says that we can go on sinning, then they have no faith. And so they just weren't even saved.
 
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john832

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well... He did do it all for us.
But that doesn't mean we can live lawlessly.

If you are saying that you can go to hell after Christ saved you from it, you are contradicting yourself, and the Word.
However, if a person says that we can go on sinning, then they have no faith. And so they just weren't even saved.
OK, then explain this...

Jas 2:24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

and this...

Jas 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
 
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Hoffco

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This is why we must STOP saying only half of the truth, a half truth is a full lie! This "faith only" is the tool of the "angel of light" Satan, using us to defeat ourselves and do His work of damnation for him. This is the main element of the apostacy of the Church today. The requirement of salvation has always been, Repent, trust and obey all that God has revealed for our age. Don't add or substrat. Warren Wersby is the worse "angel of light" that Satan has in his employment, and Chuck swindol is a runner up. And of course these Judizers are "angels of light" also. We must always consider all the lawful teachings of the Old t. as legetiment for us to day, the health laws are a must for us; But the new cleansers that we have ,like Bleach and hydogene peroxide, antibacteria soaps, etc. are fast ways of cleaning up after defilements. Hoffco
 

john832

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This is why we must STOP saying only half of the truth, a half truth is a full lie! This "faith only" is the tool of the "angel of light" Satan, using us to defeat ourselves and do His work of damnation for him. This is the main element of the apostacy of the Church today. The requirement of salvation has always been, Repent, trust and obey all that God has revealed for our age. Don't add or substrat. Warren Wersby is the worse "angel of light" that Satan has in his employment, and Chuck swindol is a runner up. And of course these Judizers are "angels of light" also. We must always consider all the lawful teachings of the Old t. as legetiment for us to day, the health laws are a must for us; But the new cleansers that we have ,like Bleach and hydogene peroxide, antibacteria soaps, etc. are fast ways of cleaning up after defilements. Hoffco
We must adhere to the entirety of scripture. Obedience does not remove the guilt for breaking God's Laws in the past. That is grace...

Rom 5:9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
Rom 5:10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

Neither is grace a free pass to continue breaking God's Laws. We must obey. Grace is the means of forgiving us and cleansing us when we slip and fall. God does not freely extend grace to one who is unrepentant...

Act 2:38 Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Act 3:19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

But God's great mercy and love is extended to those who are striving to obey in the form of grace.
 
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So this is ceremonial?

Deu 23:12 "Also you shall have a place outside the camp, where you may go out;
Deu 23:13 and you shall have an implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your refuse.
Sanitary regulations for Israel's military camp were not ceremonial laws.

Ceremonial laws were in Lev.

Or this...

Deu 22:8 "When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it.
Building codes were not ceremonial laws.

Ceremonial laws were in Lev.

Or the laws concerning quarantine?

Lev 15:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.
Lev 15:3 And this shall be his uncleanness in regard to his discharge—whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is stopped up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness.
Lev 15:4 Every bed is unclean on which he who has the discharge lies, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.
Lev 15:5 And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:6 He who sits on anything on which he who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:7 And he who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:8 If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:9 Any saddle on which he who has the discharge rides shall be unclean.
Lev 15:10 Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until evening. He who carries any of those things shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:11 And whomever the one who has the discharge touches, and has not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:12 The vessel of earth that he who has the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
Yes, the Levitical laws were the ceremonial laws, and those of Lev 15 were the ceremonial defilement and purification laws.

All discharges were defiling; i.e., sweat, sperm, menstrual blood, birthing, spittal, etc., etc., etc.

and had to be purified according to the purification laws.

It's not about health, and it's not about morality.

It's about patterning the meaning of sin as spiritual defilement, from which God's people must be cleansed,
that apart from the new birth, everything man does is sin, because he does not believe.

I'm having a hard time taking you seriously with such weak understanding of Scripture and erroneous application of it.
 
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Why to hear some around here, you do not have to obey, Jesus did it all for you. You are free to live anyway you wish, God is just thrilled that you have deigned to say the magic words.
And you misunderstand Scripture the same way you misunderstand what others say.
 
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This is why Noah, David, Mary , Joseph, Zacharius, Elizabeth all found grace in the eyes of the Lord.! They were obedient to all the known will of God for them. But for us, the known will of God for us has changed drastily. The Grace of God: power and love, is what saved us from our sin, and grace is what makes us obey Jesus in order to follow through with the beginning of grace in the new birth. Birth makes us alive, and enable us to repent ,trust and obey, Very simple. Don't complciate salvation with gnostic thoughts, extra from the Bible; like, "freewill" and "faith only" or Jesus as Savior first and latter as Lord.Hoffco
 

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Does anyone see the irony in the fact that we must confess we obey our Father, whether we call Him by the name of the faith of Abraham, that being Yahweh, or we call Him by one of the names from the nations?

Does anyone see something nefarious developing in the minds of some who believe they are brethren?
 
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OK, then explain this...

Jas 2:24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

and this...

Jas 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
James is saying that true faith, which is the faith that saves, obeys.

If there is no obedience, the faith is not true, therefore, it does not save, because it is counterfeit
(Mt 7:21-23).

It's not complicated.
 
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Hoffco

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This is why Noah, David, Mary , Joseph, Zacharius, Elizabeth all found grace in the eyes of the Lord.! They were obedient to all the known will of God for them. But for us, the known will of God for us has changed drastily. The Grace of God: power and love, is what saved us from our sin, and grace is what makes us obey Jesus in order to follow through with the beginning of grace in the new birth. Birth makes us alive, and enable us to repent ,trust and obey, Very simple. Don't complciate salvation with gnostic thoughts, extra from the Bible; like, "freewill" and "faith only" or Jesus as Savior first and latter as Lord. John832, I would remind you, that you are leaving out God's POWER in regeneration the Makes us alive, it is resurrection power that saves us, not just "mercy and love", they are helpless to save with out God's power. Hoffco
 
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We must adhere to the entirety of scripture. Obedience does not remove the guilt for breaking God's Laws in the past. That is grace...

Rom 5:9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
Rom 5:10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

Neither is grace a free pass to continue breaking God's Laws. We must obey. Grace is the means of forgiving us and cleansing us when we slip and fall. God does not freely extend grace to one who is unrepentant...

Act 2:38 Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Act 3:19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

But God's great mercy and love is extended to those who are striving to obey in the form of grace.
Correction. . .wrong emphasis.

God's great mercy and love is extended to those of true faith by grace.
 

john832

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And you misunderstand Scripture the same way you misunderstand what others say.
OK, then school us. Show me why Christ's plain statement here is wrong...

Mat 19:17 So He said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
Mat 19:18 He said to Him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, " 'YOU SHALL NOT MURDER,' 'YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,' 'YOU SHALL NOT STEAL,' 'YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS,'
Mat 19:19 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER,' and, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' "
 
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OK, then school us. Show me why Christ's plain statement here is wrong...

Mat 19:17 So He said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
Mat 19:18 He said to Him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, " 'YOU SHALL NOT MURDER,' 'YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,' 'YOU SHALL NOT STEAL,' 'YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS,'
Mat 19:19 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER,' and, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' "
Okay, I can do that too.

Show me why Christ's plain statement here is wrong:

"On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." (Mt 22:40)

You will never understand the Scriptures until you understand them in reconciliation.

So get crackin'. . .er, reckonin', that is.
 
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Hoffco

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Thanks to JaumesJ, ,nefarious, (not right , evil, wicked) that is a very colorful word, I will start using it. The sound of it is atrosious,?? what ever, some thing else to fill my mind with mischevious thoughts, hah ha.LOL. I must be ware of the workings of the OLD MAN, sorry, I get carry away ,at times, it is 3:30 am, here. Hoffco LOL.