Did Jesus ever tell us that we no longer need to keep the law of Moses?

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And knowing I can not meet that standard no matter how I try.

NONE OF US CAN. THAT IS WHY WE GO THROUGH JESUS. THAT IS WHY THE OLD WAS ABOLISHED. GOD LOVES US.
Yep. That’s why the law was set aside. Thank you
 
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Hey Guojing,

I like the way you framed that up!

They keep saying, some even admitting that they are drawing conclusions and assuming that we are saying all you need is obedience and no blood!
Another assumption. Wow man. Can you show ONE POST where some one has said this? Just one?
 
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no, it is not a sincere question, it is trap question.

I answer " yes" you respond and say " then what do you have against them? " in would say " nothing " them you say " well, why don't do your best to follow them"

you see, the law and the Sabbath have NOTHING TO DO WITH SALVATION THROUGH FAITH IN CHIST.

and, once again, you have no comment on the Fruits of the Sprit.
I will answer it

Yes I have seen it.

1. It proved my guilt
2. It showed me Christ
3. It showed me how desperate my situation was
4. It showed me how far away from God I was
5. It showed me how hopeless I was

6. And it showed me I better stop trying, because I can’t live up. And how I needed christ, who is a far better and living way.
 
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Wouldn't it be easy enough to simply block me EG? But no you won't do that will you, because you must 0_0 defeat me right?



Like I said, dishonest practices. You're doing what the pharisees would do. Below is the full post, at true face value without removal of any other text.

Doesn't matter how many times you quote the incomplete post the full post remains for the record.

Anyone can click on my name below to confirm the full post to see it wasn't added to or taken away from.

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...the law isn't the problem. You are. I am.

The obedience to the law is what leads to everlasting life. That's why we need Christ in our lives...to empower us to do what Christ did...obey.

This is how Christ saved us, to give us his Spirit, to walk as he walked in the flesh.

The job isn't complete until you're dead or transformed.

"He that endures to the end, the same shall be saves."

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I gave you both the gospel of the kingdom and the gospel of Christ together in one nice succinct post.

- Salvation from Christ isn't everlasting life. It's freedom from the bondage of sin, and receipt of The Holy Spirit.

- Everlasting life, is the promised reward of the kingdom of Heaven; immortal transformed bodies. Glory. Which only comes through obedience becausethe law is life.

One is freedom from the angel of death in Egypt by the lambs blood. The other is the crossing over into the glorious promised land.

Are you freed from sins bondage through the blood of the lamb, EG? Yes, through faith.

Do you currently have everlasting life, EG? No. That comes when Christ returns and rewards the obedient.

"Good master, what must i do to inherit eternal life?"

"Obey the commandments."

"I've done that since I was little."

"Then there's one last thing, sell everything, give the money to the poor and follow me."

Revelation 14:12
"Here is the patience of the saints, they that (a) keep the commandments of God and (b) the faith of Jesus."

Hey Y,

Hope to hear from you again. We can and really should just ignore those who are being rude and unkind. Like I said I am interested in Enoch if you have studied that book. Also, I am interested in Calendars or reckoning time too, how about you?

Sincerely

SG
 

NayborBear

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in Matthew 28 He says 'teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you'
to say what you have said, you have to make the leap there that this means Torah, tho it's not specified - and as you pointed to Galatians, you must realize that in the epistles this is not the interpretation and conclusion the apostles drew, but do you infer a difference between how a gentile is saved and how a Jew is saved?


it's worth repeating:

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another:
just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
(John 13:34)
In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying,
"This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you."
(Luke 22:20)
In saying, "new," He has made obsolete the first;
and that which is growing old and aging is near vanishing.
(Hebrews 8:13)


in my understanding the thread title / OP question is a settled one.
yes, look at Hebrews 8:13. God expects us to meditate on His words and put two & two together, just as the author of Hebrews has - i mentioned to someone earlier, tho there's no controversy over whether blood sacrifices must still be made, Christ never explicitly said so; but we all are able to apply our brains to the NT and come away with that conclusion.



altho.. as soon as i say that, watch someone join the forum preaching a return to the daily sacrifices lol -- preaching that we must keep "all the commandments" and being sincere this time, not picking and choosing from them, thinking to teach us all to offer goats and bulls to Jesus. then that person will ask for donations towards rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem... :rolleyes:
@NayborBear such a person would def. deserve the '
Hebrew roots' classification ;)
Alrighty? Fair enough PH. Fair enough. Jesus "supersedes" the "blood sacrifices" given as "sin offerings" unto God. Just as He, Jesus, "supersedes" any and all of the feasts and celebrations God commanded. Right?
So, Jesus had no more right, in showing "love" for the Lord His GOD, in the making of a whip, and clearing out "those" in the (then) "Temple of God", who were (obviously) involved in money making schemes, therefore "proclaiming themselves AS God"; Then, we as Christians today, show our "love" FOR/TO the Lord our God, to our "neighbors", by allowing them in "stablishing their law", much for, and increasingly TO, Christianity's demise?!
Which causes me to consider 2 things! (Perhaps, PH, you could help me "untangle" my explanations?)
1) WOW! We as Christians today, must REALLY, I mean REALLY "HATE" ourselves, by allowing our neighbors, to whom we are to love as ourselves, carry on in this fashion.
Would it not be to a more expedient "stabishing OF the law", and, Loving the Lord our God, with ALL our strength, in sending our neighbors TO God? IOW?
Can we no longer HOLD our neighbors to accountability, as we "presumably" hold OURSELVES to this SAME accountability? WE MUST REALLY HATE OURSELVES, when we are no longer able to show "Tough LOVE" to our "neighbors!",
To me, anyway. This shows that "our neighbors" want Christendom to prove "Unconditional Love" to THEM, and follow them as they keep going deeper into "the pit", that Has NO bottom!
It's GOT to STOP!
Unconditional love, has run amuck! Our "neighbors" are taking all the "fruit of the Spirit", as it can get, with it! Sounds like a "plague" of "locusts", at best. More like though, in these end times, the "locust army!" Tree of knowledge, of good and evil? Nebacanezzers dream, of the "statue" with "feet of clay?" (man is "made of clay", are we not?) The "number of a "man!" As it states in Revelation.

And?

2) Apostasy! Via traditions of man, has given cause in its own perpetuations, in "throwing the Father out, after the cleansing blood of the Lamb!" In essence, and much more so in practice, in REPLACING the Father WITH the Son! Showing just how true the words Jude stated in His book.
Jude
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

Are we so blind that we cannot see the comparison of the "beast which ascendeth out of the bottomless pit", that hods us in the same EXACT bondage, the children of Israel were under in Egypt?

It is my belief, that there are other people, who see this as I do. And, striving, oh so strenuously striving, in "spiritually sacrificing" in their seeking out OF/FOR the Father! Because, they/I are not seeing the Father IN "the Jesus" that is taught in today's Christendom. Because? After 2,000 YEARS?
The law? Is STILL not "stablished!"

So, are we really loving the Lord our God, with all our "strength?" Or, are we going to allow this locust army in its relentlessly "stripping away" all the "fruit of the Spirit?" So that the "law" may never be stablished? :unsure::unsure::unsure:





 
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See what I mean folks

I quote his post. I even HIGHLIGHT what he said, and he asks me what he claimed some were saying?

What could I do to be more clear?

Maybe this?

Hey Guojing,

I like the way you framed that up!

They keep saying, some even admitting that they are drawing conclusions and assuming that we are saying all you need is obedience and no blood!
Here did this help?

Once again, can you post one instance of a person saying this?
 

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Alrighty? Fair enough PH. Fair enough. Jesus "supersedes" the "blood sacrifices" given as "sin offerings" unto God. Just as He, Jesus, "supersedes" any and all of the feasts and celebrations God
Which causes me to consider 2 things! (Perhaps, PH, you could help me "untangle" my explanations?)
1) WOW! We as Christians today, must REALLY, I mean REALLY "HATE" ourselves, by allowing our neighbors, to whom we are to love as ourselves, carry on in this fashion.
Would it not be to a more expedient "stabishing OF the law", and, Loving the Lord our God, with ALL our strength, in sending our neighbors TO God? IOW?
Can we no longer HOLD our neighbors to accountability, as we "presumably" hold OURSELVES to this SAME accountability? WE MUST REALLY HATE OURSELVES, when we are no longer able to show "Tough LOVE" to our "neighbors!",
To me, anyway. This shows that "our neighbors" want Christendom to prove "Unconditional Love" to THEM, and follow them as they keep going deeper into "the pit", that Has NO bottom!
It's GOT to STOP!
Unconditional love, has run amuck! Our "neighbors" are taking all the "fruit of the Spirit", as it can get, with it! Sounds like a "plague" of "locusts", at best. More like though, in these end times, the "locust army!" Tree of knowledge, of good and evil? Nebacanezzers dream, of the "statue" with "feet of clay?" (man is "made of clay", are we not?) The "number of a "man!" As it states in Revelation.

2) Apostasy! Via traditions of man, has given cause in its own perpetuations, in "throwing the Father out, after the cleansing blood of the Lamb!" In essence, and much more so in practice, in REPLACING the Father WITH the Son! Showing just how true the words Jude stated in His book.


It is my belief, that there are other people, who see this as I do. And, striving, oh so strenuously striving, in "spiritually sacrificing" in their seeking out OF/FOR the Father! Because, they/I are not seeing the Father IN "the Jesus" that is taught in today's Christendom. Because? After 2,000 YEARS?
The law? Is STILL not "stablished!"

So, are we really loving the Lord our God, with all our "strength?" Or, are we going to allow this locust army in its relentlessly "stripping away" all the "fruit of the Spirit?" So that the "law" may never be stablished? :unsure::unsure::unsure:
If sometime you wouldn't mind and you get some time, could you give more back details and details and explanations?
 
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Alrighty? Fair enough PH. Fair enough. Jesus "supersedes" the "blood sacrifices" given as "sin offerings" unto God. Just as He, Jesus, "supersedes" any and all of the feasts and celebrations God commanded. Right?
So, Jesus had no more right, in showing "love" for the Lord His GOD, in the making of a whip, and clearing out "those" in the (then) "Temple of God", who were (obviously) involved in money making schemes, therefore "proclaiming themselves AS God"; Then, we as Christians today, show our "love" FOR/TO the Lord our God, to our "neighbors", by allowing them in "stablishing their law", much for, and increasingly TO, Christianity's demise?!
Which causes me to consider 2 things! (Perhaps, PH, you could help me "untangle" my explanations?)
1) WOW! We as Christians today, must REALLY, I mean REALLY "HATE" ourselves, by allowing our neighbors, to whom we are to love as ourselves, carry on in this fashion.
Would it not be to a more expedient "stabishing OF the law", and, Loving the Lord our God, with ALL our strength, in sending our neighbors TO God? IOW?
Can we no longer HOLD our neighbors to accountability, as we "presumably" hold OURSELVES to this SAME accountability? WE MUST REALLY HATE OURSELVES, when we are no longer able to show "Tough LOVE" to our "neighbors!",
To me, anyway. This shows that "our neighbors" want Christendom to prove "Unconditional Love" to THEM, and follow them as they keep going deeper into "the pit", that Has NO bottom!
It's GOT to STOP!
Unconditional love, has run amuck! Our "neighbors" are taking all the "fruit of the Spirit", as it can get, with it! Sounds like a "plague" of "locusts", at best. More like though, in these end times, the "locust army!" Tree of knowledge, of good and evil? Nebacanezzers dream, of the "statue" with "feet of clay?" (man is "made of clay", are we not?) The "number of a "man!" As it states in Revelation.

And?

2) Apostasy! Via traditions of man, has given cause in its own perpetuations, in "throwing the Father out, after the cleansing blood of the Lamb!" In essence, and much more so in practice, in REPLACING the Father WITH the Son! Showing just how true the words Jude stated in His book.
Jude
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

Are we so blind that we cannot see the comparison of the "beast which ascendeth out of the bottomless pit", that hods us in the same EXACT bondage, the children of Israel were under in Egypt?

It is my belief, that there are other people, who see this as I do. And, striving, oh so strenuously striving, in "spiritually sacrificing" in their seeking out OF/FOR the Father! Because, they/I are not seeing the Father IN "the Jesus" that is taught in today's Christendom. Because? After 2,000 YEARS?
The law? Is STILL not "stablished!"

So, are we really loving the Lord our God, with all our "strength?" Or, are we going to allow this locust army in its relentlessly "stripping away" all the "fruit of the Spirit?" So that the "law" may never be stablished? :unsure::unsure::unsure:
Hey PH,

I didn't read all of this, but will, but noticed your question about the Jews vs the "ethnos" that word gentiles has a questionable derivation.
Alrighty? Fair enough PH. Fair enough. Jesus "supersedes" the "blood sacrifices" given as "sin offerings" unto God. Just as He, Jesus, "supersedes" any and all of the feasts and celebrations God commanded. Right?
So, Jesus had no more right, in showing "love" for the Lord His GOD, in the making of a whip, and clearing out "those" in the (then) "Temple of God", who were (obviously) involved in money making schemes, therefore "proclaiming themselves AS God"; Then, we as Christians today, show our "love" FOR/TO the Lord our God, to our "neighbors", by allowing them in "stablishing their law", much for, and increasingly TO, Christianity's demise?!
Which causes me to consider 2 things! (Perhaps, PH, you could help me "untangle" my explanations?)
1) WOW! We as Christians today, must REALLY, I mean REALLY "HATE" ourselves, by allowing our neighbors, to whom we are to love as ourselves, carry on in this fashion.
Would it not be to a more expedient "stabishing OF the law", and, Loving the Lord our God, with ALL our strength, in sending our neighbors TO God? IOW?
Can we no longer HOLD our neighbors to accountability, as we "presumably" hold OURSELVES to this SAME accountability? WE MUST REALLY HATE OURSELVES, when we are no longer able to show "Tough LOVE" to our "neighbors!",
To me, anyway. This shows that "our neighbors" want Christendom to prove "Unconditional Love" to THEM, and follow them as they keep going deeper into "the pit", that Has NO bottom!
It's GOT to STOP!
Unconditional love, has run amuck! Our "neighbors" are taking all the "fruit of the Spirit", as it can get, with it! Sounds like a "plague" of "locusts", at best. More like though, in these end times, the "locust army!" Tree of knowledge, of good and evil? Nebacanezzers dream, of the "statue" with "feet of clay?" (man is "made of clay", are we not?) The "number of a "man!" As it states in Revelation.

And?

2) Apostasy! Via traditions of man, has given cause in its own perpetuations, in "throwing the Father out, after the cleansing blood of the Lamb!" In essence, and much more so in practice, in REPLACING the Father WITH the Son! Showing just how true the words Jude stated in His book.
Jude
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

Are we so blind that we cannot see the comparison of the "beast which ascendeth out of the bottomless pit", that hods us in the same EXACT bondage, the children of Israel were under in Egypt?

It is my belief, that there are other people, who see this as I do. And, striving, oh so strenuously striving, in "spiritually sacrificing" in their seeking out OF/FOR the Father! Because, they/I are not seeing the Father IN "the Jesus" that is taught in today's Christendom. Because? After 2,000 YEARS?
The law? Is STILL not "stablished!"

So, are we really loving the Lord our God, with all our "strength?" Or, are we going to allow this locust army in its relentlessly "stripping away" all the "fruit of the Spirit?" So that the "law" may never be stablished? :unsure::unsure::unsure:
Greetings NayborBear,

Notes as I read:

Not "Unconditional Love" It is "unconditional tolerance"

If a man is willing to see it, our nations (USA) laws were patterned after the Torah. What is happening, and has been happening for over 150 years has been the removal and or alteration of those Torah inspired laws down into something that is no longer "Godly" Literally hundreds of laws. We were a nation of LAWS not laws, but LAWS! Godly LAWS! Many of the LAWS were defeated through the courts by arguing that this country had no right to legislate obviously Christian and OT LAWS into the fabric of this nation! So they are systematically being removed! For all those who despise the Torah are you pleased that men and men are now allowed to marry? Are you pleased that parents are losing rights to raise up their children in the way they should go? Are you pleased that the Bible itself and any mention of it is prohibited from public display?
 

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Hey PH,

I didn't read all of this, but will, but noticed your question about the Jews vs the "ethnos" that word gentiles has a questionable derivation.

Greetings NayborBear,

Notes as I read:

Not "Unconditional Love" It is "unconditional tolerance"

If a man is willing to see it, our nations (USA) laws were patterned after the Torah. What is happening, and has been happening for over 150 years has been the removal and or alteration of those Torah inspired laws down into something that is no longer "Godly" Literally hundreds of laws. We were a nation of LAWS not laws, but LAWS! Godly LAWS! Many of the LAWS were defeated through the courts by arguing that this country had no right to legislate obviously Christian and OT LAWS into the fabric of this nation! So they are systematically being removed! For all those who despise the Torah are you pleased that men and men are now allowed to marry? Are you pleased that parents are losing rights to raise up their children in the way they should go? Are you pleased that the Bible itself and any mention of it is prohibited from public display?
Now it is all by "precedent"
 
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See what I mean folks

I quote his post. I even HIGHLIGHT what he said, and he asks me what he claimed some were saying?

What could I do to be more clear?

Maybe this?



Here did this help?

Once again, can you post one instance of a person saying this?
Unkind Brute!
 
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Unkind?

You continually refusing to answer questions is Kind?

Once again, You need to look in the mirror my friend..

And again, Can you show us a post where someone said that?

Or once again are you going to show you keep making accusations against people. But have no proof to back your claims?
 
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Unkind?

You continually refusing to answer questions is Kind?

Once again, You need to look in the mirror my friend..

And again, Can you show us a post where someone said that?

Or once again are you going to show you keep making accusations against people. But have no proof to back your claims?

Said what? there were two things listed there.

list one or both but separately.

You are an unkind Brute EG what's worse, your conscience is seared regarding it.
 
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Unkind?

You continually refusing to answer questions is Kind?

Once again, You need to look in the mirror my friend..

And again, Can you show us a post where someone said that?

Or once again are you going to show you keep making accusations against people. But have no proof to back your claims?

EG your cold and calculated aggression is a blemish on this thread. :(
 
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Alrighty? Fair enough PH. Fair enough. Jesus "supersedes" the "blood sacrifices" given as "sin offerings" unto God. Just as He, Jesus, "supersedes" any and all of the feasts and celebrations God commanded. Right?
So, Jesus had no more right, in showing "love" for the Lord His GOD, in the making of a whip, and clearing out "those" in the (then) "Temple of God", who were (obviously) involved in money making schemes, therefore "proclaiming themselves AS God"; Then, we as Christians today, show our "love" FOR/TO the Lord our God, to our "neighbors", by allowing them in "stablishing their law", much for, and increasingly TO, Christianity's demise?!
Which causes me to consider 2 things! (Perhaps, PH, you could help me "untangle" my explanations?)
1) WOW! We as Christians today, must REALLY, I mean REALLY "HATE" ourselves, by allowing our neighbors, to whom we are to love as ourselves, carry on in this fashion.
Would it not be to a more expedient "stabishing OF the law", and, Loving the Lord our God, with ALL our strength, in sending our neighbors TO God? IOW?
Can we no longer HOLD our neighbors to accountability, as we "presumably" hold OURSELVES to this SAME accountability? WE MUST REALLY HATE OURSELVES, when we are no longer able to show "Tough LOVE" to our "neighbors!",
To me, anyway. This shows that "our neighbors" want Christendom to prove "Unconditional Love" to THEM, and follow them as they keep going deeper into "the pit", that Has NO bottom!
It's GOT to STOP!
Unconditional love, has run amuck! Our "neighbors" are taking all the "fruit of the Spirit", as it can get, with it! Sounds like a "plague" of "locusts", at best. More like though, in these end times, the "locust army!" Tree of knowledge, of good and evil? Nebacanezzers dream, of the "statue" with "feet of clay?" (man is "made of clay", are we not?) The "number of a "man!" As it states in Revelation.

And?

2) Apostasy! Via traditions of man, has given cause in its own perpetuations, in "throwing the Father out, after the cleansing blood of the Lamb!" In essence, and much more so in practice, in REPLACING the Father WITH the Son! Showing just how true the words Jude stated in His book.
Jude
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

Are we so blind that we cannot see the comparison of the "beast which ascendeth out of the bottomless pit", that hods us in the same EXACT bondage, the children of Israel were under in Egypt?

It is my belief, that there are other people, who see this as I do. And, striving, oh so strenuously striving, in "spiritually sacrificing" in their seeking out OF/FOR the Father! Because, they/I are not seeing the Father IN "the Jesus" that is taught in today's Christendom. Because? After 2,000 YEARS?
The law? Is STILL not "stablished!"

So, are we really loving the Lord our God, with all our "strength?" Or, are we going to allow this locust army in its relentlessly "stripping away" all the "fruit of the Spirit?" So that the "law" may never be stablished? :unsure::unsure::unsure:
Hey NayborBear,

Did my reply come across messed up?

Looking back over it and can't make sense of what I sent.

Apologies for any confusion.

SG :)
 

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The law shows what sin is. That's the law's purpose isn't it? How far have we gone as a body that we can't even accept basic foundational truths anymore. It's a sin because the law says it is, not Joshua says. This says nothing about the other side (i.e. salvation by faith through Christ). Post asked me if it was a sin (i.e. a transgression of the law). Yes. Then asked me if he was wicked not to obey the law. Yes. Isn't that the premise of needing Christ? That we're sinners?
The question asked was 'if the law is spiritual how can YOU tell Posthuman that wearing a poly/cotton blend is sin?'

Did you just not understand the question?

Or do you really think that a spiritual person is one who refrains from wearing clothes that have different types of cloth in them?

Since you do NOT know that the Law is Spiritual and don't really know what Spiritual even is then you DON'T know what the Law says and you don't know what sin is.

IF you could fulfill the Spiritual Law by a mere carnal means, such as wearing a 100% cotton shirt, then the Law is NOT spiritual but it is a carnal law.

I don't expect you to understand this. You've already shown that you do not.





In Paul's world.

Romans 7:14
"For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin."
Some of us understand this.

Some of us do not.




Pointing out sin and encouraging bretheren not to sin like we're instructed? On a Christian site? I don't know what I was thinking.
If you actually knew what sin was it might be a good thing.

Then if you actually knew the remedy it might be a good thing as well.

But you don't understand what you say or what you affirm. Just like the bible has told us.




If I don't hate the law like you say (thank you by the way) but talk about it constantly like you say, am I operating in the flesh or the Spirit, based on Paul's words? It's a simple test. Paul literally explains that such is how one determines which mode a person is operating it.

Romans 8:7&9
"because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so...You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ."
This is EXACTLY what I mean when I say you have turned the Scripture on its head trying to make it say 180 degrees of what it REALLY says.

You may THINK that you obey the law. The carnal mind often does. Because the carnal mind doesn't understand the Spiritual law. The carnal mind thinks it fulfills the Spiritual law by its carnal acts. Such as not wearing a poly/cotton blend.

The carnal mind often thinks it is better than it really is. The Lord actually cautions that thinking if you want go check.

What Paul is saying here is NOT that those who follow a carnal law are spiritual because they follow a carnal law. Paul is saying that your carnality, your work and understanding of the Law, can never fulfill the Spirituality required by that Law.



You do realize the law wasn't the issue, but the letter thereof and our flesh? This is what you're saying: "you focus on the law and not the law."

the Torah in letter form = The tablets & scrolls

the Torah made flesh = Christ

the Torah in Spirit = Holy Spirit

A house divided against itself can not stand. This is exactly why Paul ties the mind of Christ to submitting to Yah's law in Romans 8, like I just posted above. One needs the mind of Christ to submit to the law of God because the law is spiritual. But the mind of flesh can't and won't submit. Literally what Paul said.

Isaiah 5:20
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter"
The Torah is ONLY in letter form.

The Torah was NEVER made flesh. GOD was made flesh.

The Torah is NOT Spirit. The Torah is the Letter.

In order to be spiritual, in order to gain a spiritual understanding YOU MUST COME TO CHRIST. Only Christ can give you a spiritual understanding. The Torah can't do this for you.




Context. Gotta understand context. This is Peter's testimony. Please consider everything he says. If anyone knew Paul's intentions for his letters Peter did:

2 Peter 3:16-18
"[Paul] writes this way in all his letters speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which IGNORANT and UNSTABLE people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

17 Therefore, beloved, since you already know these things, be on your guard so that you will not be carried away by the ERROR OR THE LAWLESS and fall from your secure standing.

18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.

Amen."

If this passage doesn't perfectly clear up the whole grace/law relationship, and what Paul's true intention was regarding his letters (as testified by Peter), I don't know what will.



I've turned the scriptures on their head...by posting them word for word without alteration?? Or could it be that you and a few others have been reading the entire book upside-down for decades?
2 Peter 3:17-18
17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.


Beware against being led away with the error of the wicked. Those who DON'T understand that those who are of the works of the law are under the curse. Those who attempt to entangle the Christian back into the Yoke of Bondage from which they were delivered.

What is the SOLUTION for being led away with the error of the wicked? Or as your VERY poor translation calls it "error of the lawless"?

Its not working at the law. Its Growing in Grace and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
 

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Let us rather "cut to the chase", so to speak, eh? Or, try to, anyway. (gonna be a long post, methinks) And, being such? I fully expect some to, not so much "pick apart" this post. But, as has been shown me more times then I care to mention, come away seeing only that which they want to see. Thus, disregarding the rest.

In "venues" such as this, there are people of many many different levels of faith, and Spiritual growth, and I want to "bring it back" to what Paul was trying to explain in Romans 11.
Romans 11
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

I think we can all agree that upon accepting Christ, that that particular part/branch/limb/twig/piece, of a gentile's "wild olive tree", is GRAFTED into the TRUE vine, as Jesus called it. Olive tree, is what Paul called it.
6 of one? Half dozen of another! Yet? This is only a PART, of a gentile's "wild olive tree!" NOT THE WHOLE, as some gentiles, would want some to think. This is the very BEGINNING, of this "grafting process", and NOT the "end", as some gentiles would have one prescribe/ascribe to.
AFTER, this initial grafting? The converted gentile SHOULD start to SENSE the "unction" of the Holy Spirit, in STRIVING in "trying to connect up with" THE ROOT! Or? He who SENT Jesus of Nazareth.
As Jesus called Him: "My Father in Heaven." Or? "If you believe in God?" "Believe also, in Me." "For I come FROM God."
Romans 11

22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, IF thou continue in his goodness: OTHERWISE(?) thou also shalt be cut off.

All this while, the gentile is warring against the "rest" of the gentile's wild olive tree. That is to say, the outer man! As well, as the INNER man, that has not yet been overcome!

FROM THE INSIDE OUT! FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE TOP?
Is how JEHOVAH "builds" His Priests!

Romans 11
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

What happens, is that the gentile falls victim to: "Why can't YOU be like the "other" christians?" "You can STOP this at ANY time, yanno?" "You ARE saved, yanno?" "Might, MAKES right, yanno?"
Something to be said here concerning traditions of man, making void the Word of God.


Matthew 7
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

The more and more the successfulness, the inner man, has in overcoming, by the gentile's continued perseverance of the grafting taking hold, in the gentile's ability of abolishing the wild olive tree of his wild olive tree nature, or outer man?
The gentile cannot help himself, in "gravitating" CLOSER TO THE ROOT! Or? He who sent Jesus of Nazareth!
Romans 3
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
31 Do we then make VOID the law THROUGH faith? God forbid(!): yea, we ESTABLISH the law.

WHAT LAW? The law of Moses! The very ROOT! Of the which, there would BE no Christianity!

How FORTUNATE we ALL are! That the GOD of our Salvation, in His LOVING KINDNESS, which ENDURES FOREVER for "those" called by His Name! Has seen FIT, that even us GENTILES should have so hard a task in overcoming? That He has "set aside" an "everlasting", aka "thousand years", wherein the serpent/dragon/devil/beezelbub/ADVERSARY, is to be INCARCERATED, during "this time of teaching!"

Revelation 2
17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

These "warnings and rewards" sure seems to be directed towards THIS SIDE of the "Millennial Age" aka "everlasting." Don't it?













Of course, the "rest" of the gentile's wild olive tree, wants NOTHING to do with this!


If I am any indication of what men in general want, it is to be able to overcome everything in my path, in one way or another.

But with Gods Spiritual Law I was not able to do that. Ever.

There was a time when I thought I could. But what I had done was bring Gods Law down to my level so I would just "think" that I was fulfilling it.

Gods Spiritual Law puts a stop to EVERYONES mouth. Christian, Buddhist, whatever. ALL MOUTHS are stopped before God. No one can say to God "What else would you like me to do, I've already accomplished these first 10".


With all that being said, the wish in my heart is that I COULD stand on my own. That I was the One who is Strong. That I was the One who Provides. That I was the One who Protects. That I was the One with Wisdom and Knowledge.

But I am still that small child that must come to the Throne and ask for His Strength, His Provision, His Protection and His Knowledge and Wisdom. (Little ones to Him belong, they are weak but He is Strong)

I don't want to. Not really. The carnal mind fights against this. I want to be The One.

But over the years I've been taught humility. As you can probably imagine I desperately needed it....:ROFL:
 
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Said what? there were two things listed there.

list one or both but separately.

You are an unkind Brute EG what's worse, your conscience is seared regarding it.
You my friend are deceptive

There-is only one thing mentioned there. That people admit that they misrepresent you by saying all you need is obedience. Leaving out the blood;

You want to keep the name calling, I will report you.