How come Paul referred to the 10 commandments as the Ministration of Death and Condemnation if they are what is written on our hearts?
Why did Paul say that the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death if that same law of sin and death is written on our hearts?
Because the 10 commandments aren't written on our hearts.
Love, Joy, Peace, Patience., etc are written on our new hearts of flesh given to us by God when we come to Christ. That is the rest you are missing. He causes us to walk in His Law, Love by giving us His Love. Placing it in our hearts.
At very best here you have made the scripture look like it contradicts itself.
I have shown fairly conclusively that the law is the 10 commandments and as Yet no one has been able to show error in how I have used those scriptures.
But for you I will answer your question on the ministration of death because I did use scripture from that chapter in my OP. and this should suffice for others who have asked a similar question.
I am going to show here how this fits with the OP because scripture does not contradict at all.
you said "
How come Paul referred to the 10 commandments as the Ministration of Death and Condemnation if they are what is written on our hearts?"
The scripture you refer to here is:
2Co 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
2Co 3:7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
Now on a shallow glance one might see a problem here but that is not the case at all.
Notice the old covenant, "the letter killeth" "ministration of death, written and engraved on stones".
now I assume you know that the law on stone kills and brings death because all have fallen short of the glory of God. all have sinned. The letter only kills those who break it.
Now notice the new covenant, "spirit giveth life" "ministration of the spirit" Notice both have a ministration the old death the new life. the old written letter on stone the new by the Spirit.
Is this not what Paul said and I quoted in the OP?
2Co 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Notice not written with ink but with the spirit, not on stone but on the heart.
So the ministration of the Spirit is to take those same commandments and write them on the heart which gives life. because as the opp shows when this same law is on the heart God causes us to obey them and those who obey God live.
So you can see that what Paul says is 100% in line with the OP. As it should be because the bible does not contradict itself.
then you said "
Why did Paul say that the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death if that same law of sin and death is written on our hearts?"
The scripture you use here is:
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
The 10 commandments are not sin as the word says:
Rom 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
So you have misunderstood what the law of sin is. lets see what Paul says it is:
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
in His mind he wants to serve the law of God but he is captive to the law of sin. So what is the law of God and what is the law of sin?
So there is the "law of God" and the "law of sin" Paul here says captive to the law of sin. so what does he do?
Rom 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Law of sin is sin according to this verse. . or in other words The law of God says though shalt not steal the law of sin says steal
if you want.
The Law of God is as I am sure you know the same law He said was good just holy, The 10 commandments. So Paul says he wants to follow the 10 commandments/law of God but he is captive to the law of sin/breaking the law of God. and sin leads to?:
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
You guessed it death. The word of God never contradicts itself.
So then what happens when the Spirit comes into us?
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
The one who is free from the law of sin/breaking the law has the law fulfilled in them just as the OP said.
see in the flesh we are captive to the law of sin which brings death as Paul said:
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
But when the Spirit comes the inward man gains the strength who delights in the law of God:
Eph 3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
Eph 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Eph 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
Eph 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
So the Spirit strengthens the inward man, so now no longer in captivity to the law of sin we are free from sin in the spirit. As you can see the word lines up everywhere.
So no God does not put the law of sin and death on our hearts that was there before that is why the letter could not save it simply revealed that we had the law of sin and death on our hearts by nature. but when we accept Christ the law of God is written on our heats and we obey it by His Spirit.
see it all lines up.
you said "
Because the 10 commandments aren't written on our hearts. "
This shows you have not yet understood the role of the 10 commandments. you speak as if they are bad. Paul said they were glorious, good, holy, just.
The problem is they can't save or change you they just show that you are a slave to the law of sin/sin. But when they are on the heart you are free from sin cause the Spirit writes those same laws on your heart. Praise God. no longer slaves to sin.