My question is, if sin is the transgression of the law, and sin is present today, Which law is still making us sinners? God is a just, unchanging God so the rules don’t change. And if it is the same law that condemned Adam and Eve as sinners is condemning us today, which law is it?
The Law of LOVE, TRUST, and RESPECT. To love self, more than God, is to sin and to doubt God is to sin.
Mar 12:28 And one of the scribes came, …. Which is the first commandment of all?
Mar 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
Mar 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Mar 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
The Ten commandments are precisely this Love for God and Love for our neighbor.
Jesus even expanded on these laws
Mat 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Mat 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
To be in God’s presence like Adam was in the beginning means we need to be righteous (sinless).
We can remove the law which reveals our sin which means we don’t need a savior but we would live in a lawless world, or we can keep the law perfectly and stand before God in our own righteousness (but all have sinned), or we can realize our sinful condition and accept Christ as our savior from sin. The law is still in place and we should keep it not to be saved but because we love God.
Keeping the Law is a delight when you love God and when you love your neighbor.
The purpose of the Law is to show what love is and to help us see what sin is. Therefore shows us our need for Christ and His gift of salvation because we can't keep the law without his help and we need redemption for the time we have sinned.