Is the law a blessing or a curse?
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In Matthew !9:16 Jesus was asked what must be done to inherit eternal life. His answer: "If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments." (Matthew 19:17) The commandments Jesus then listed? Jesus replied, “‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’” Not the 613 mitzvot, not a peep about Sabbath keeping, and no mention of the natural laws of the universe, which for some strange reason you have started mixing in with your incessant talk of the law. Hey, Blik, guess what? You do not keep the commandments.
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I didn't say that it was. Here are your words to which I responded:
"Scripture is accurate and tells the truth as it is, we have only to accept it. This time it is quite important, for we are not to say that the Lord has cancelled His instructions to us, and saying the schoolmaster means making all law of no use to us is quite serious. It even means that you are saying that God speaks with a forked tongue, for other scriptures say the law is written in stone, it cannot be erased."
The only sentence with which I can agree is the first. You accused me of saying that God speaks with a forked tongue; THAT is garbage.
No, it is not Scripture. This, Galatians 3:23-25 (KJV), is Scripture:
"But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster."
Nobody has claimed that ALL law is obsolete. What I am stating is that, according to Scripture, the Sinai covenant, which encompasses the Law as given through Moses to Israel, is obsolete. The Scripture says this in Hebrews 8:13: "When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is about to disappear."
"Scripture is accurate and tells the truth as it is, we have only to accept it. This time it is quite important, for we are not to say that the Lord has cancelled His instructions to us, and saying the schoolmaster means making all law of no use to us is quite serious. It even means that you are saying that God speaks with a forked tongue, for other scriptures say the law is written in stone, it cannot be erased."
The only sentence with which I can agree is the first. You accused me of saying that God speaks with a forked tongue; THAT is garbage.
No, it is not Scripture. This, Galatians 3:23-25 (KJV), is Scripture:
"But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster."
Nobody has claimed that ALL law is obsolete. What I am stating is that, according to Scripture, the Sinai covenant, which encompasses the Law as given through Moses to Israel, is obsolete. The Scripture says this in Hebrews 8:13: "When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is about to disappear."
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Rom 7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
So we being dead to the law frees us from the law as many scriptures affirm. The old law is dead, we are then in response dead to that law and free to re-marry a new husband and law...the law of Christ no longer bound to the old law.
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
So we being dead to the law frees us from the law as many scriptures affirm. The old law is dead, we are then in response dead to that law and free to re-marry a new husband and law...the law of Christ no longer bound to the old law.
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I think you need to go back and study the purpose of ritual ordinances which you are dead to if you truly have life in Christ and th
But teaching there is no law is teaching lawlessness. I have to go by what God says not man (Romans 3:31) Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. [establish is what it says not abolish]
But teaching there is no law is teaching lawlessness. I have to go by what God says not man (Romans 3:31) Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. [establish is what it says not abolish]
