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The commandments are our compass for morals and values.
The word of God should clarify this for us
Romans 7 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives?
4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5 For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. 6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
Hebrews 8
6Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
7For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second.
8But God found fault with the people and said:
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
9It will not be like the covenant
I made with their fathers
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of the land of Egypt,
because they did not abide by My covenant,
and I disregarded them,
declares the Lord.
10For this is the covenant I will make
with the house of Israel
after those days,
declares the Lord.
I will put My laws in their minds
and inscribe them on their hearts.
And I will be their God,
and they will be My people.
11No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother,
saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know Me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
12For I will forgive their iniquities
and will remember their sins no more.”
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13By speaking of a new covenant,
c He has made the first one obsolete; ..,
Acts 15 is ALL about this very issue
5 But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “
It is necessary to circumcise them and to
order them to keep the law of Moses.”
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Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
19 Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, 20 but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood….
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They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers, 23 with the following letter: “The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings. 24 Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you]with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions, 25 it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27 We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. 28 order it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: 29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
Only UNTIL Christ came and fulfilled it was the law needed. We do not need a school master as those who needed the law did.
Gal 3
You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. 2 I would like to learn just one thing from you:
You foolish Galatians! … Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? 3 Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh? 4 Have you experienced so much in vain—if it really was in vain? 5 So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? 6 So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
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Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come.
23 Before the coming of this faith, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed
.24 So the law was our guardian
until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.25
Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.
I have no wish to argue about the finished work of Christ, and the nee covenant that replaced the law at that moment. The law was invaluable, as a clear signpost to point us to Christ, but having reached Christ do we now go back and keep asking the signpost which way shpuld we go? Do we ignore the law of love written by the Spirit of God on our bee heart of flesh? and go back to trusting the law carved out for hearts of stone, written only for the lawless who couldnt be saved by faith because they were not spiritual children of Abraham eho was counted righteous before ever the law was given?
All i can do is present a few of the many portions of scripture that point to the truths i have shared and leave it up to the reader/s to study further and weigh up the matter prayeefully as they exMime these passages and more besides.
We dont have to fight thankfully, the main thing is we are both trusting in Yeshua, the Christ, Jesus, as our only hope for salvation.
May He keep leading us both further and further on our journey into more of Hos truths, and transforming us more and more intl the likeness of Christ, and helping us to bear with and love one another regardless of our current differences in understanding what we read in His word.
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