="posthuman, post: 3715464, member: 170505"]Isaiah 25:6-8
On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined. And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.
"wipe away" in rev. 21:4 is the same word as "blotted out" in col. 2:14
For those who have been convinced that God's Instruction brought tears and reproach, and are against us, and for those who have been convinced that in the Day you reject His Word's, "THEN" you are free from blindness, yes, if you equate God's Word with tears and reproach, and blindness (Vail). If a man is convinced that it is God's Words that is the scourge of the earth, and that the Christ came back to "Free" you, not from sin, but from God's words, then yes, you might believe this way. But the Bible says it is wickedness, sin, stubbornness, unrighteousness, pride, self exaltation that is the scourge of the earth. This is what causes the tears and the reproach.
The Christ didn't look at God's instructions the way you do. That is why He said they would be here as long as this earth is here. Nothing in the scripture you posted says God will destroy, or as you preach "Remove" His Word that the Christ says lasts forever.
Romans 3:19-22
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe
Once we reject God's instructions we are guilty, we are guilty, we are guilty. No matter what we do, not matter what Laws we follow, what religions we promote. No matter how many hungry people we feed or Sabbaths we follow. We are still guilty. NOTHING
we can do will ever change that. There is only one way to have our past sin excused, pardoned, "Wiped away". And that is through the Blood of Christ.
whoever has been immersed into Christ is immersed into His death. whoever has died is no longer liable to the Law, which is the power of sin, and is therefore in Him free of all condemnation.
Romans 6 & 7 therefore Romans 8.
Yes, a dead person can not sin, can not serve anyone. So our old self is "dead", crucified with Christ. But we are also risen with Christ, our new High Priest. In Christ we are not dead "IF we continue in His Goodness". Now that we are alive, and not dead, we can serve God, or we can also transgress, rebel, be stubborn, exalt our self again.
Rom. 6:
15 What then?
shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?
God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom
ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin,
but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18 Being then made
free from sin, (
Not free from God's instructions ) ye became the
servants of righteousness
John 5:45
Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
And who did Moses tell them to obey?