A man who can speak from scripture!! Wonderful!! Usually, when copy and paste scripture is given, we don't have room for all that applies, you have given people who don't read bible a good sample.
You are making my point. Circumcision is important but only as an expression of faith, to come after faith. The physical part of circumcision is not what is important, it is the spiritual circumcision. We now have the Holy Spirit to guide us in circumcision after Christ.
It is the same with all law. Those against the HRM say that the physical is what is important, and only the physical counts. If the physical is ever used it becomes sin, not anything to do with the spiritual. They are obsessed with the physical, so if anyone uses the physical in any way to explore the ways of God, they are up in arms. So they throw out anything and everything, even putting aside a day to give just to the Lord's care of us. Not all, but many say because Christ is our rest we deny Christ by actually resting as we do this.
If some in the HRM go too far with giving importance to the physical instead of giving importance to Christ, they also are going too far. God is spirit and truth, our churches have forgotten that. The HRM are bringing this back, by finding the spirit and truth of God. All those opposed are opposed only because they are blind to this, they can only see the physical of God, the rituals.
You are making my point. Circumcision is important but only as an expression of faith, to come after faith. The physical part of circumcision is not what is important, it is the spiritual circumcision. We now have the Holy Spirit to guide us in circumcision after Christ.
It is the same with all law. Those against the HRM say that the physical is what is important, and only the physical counts. If the physical is ever used it becomes sin, not anything to do with the spiritual. They are obsessed with the physical, so if anyone uses the physical in any way to explore the ways of God, they are up in arms. So they throw out anything and everything, even putting aside a day to give just to the Lord's care of us. Not all, but many say because Christ is our rest we deny Christ by actually resting as we do this.
If some in the HRM go too far with giving importance to the physical instead of giving importance to Christ, they also are going too far. God is spirit and truth, our churches have forgotten that. The HRM are bringing this back, by finding the spirit and truth of God. All those opposed are opposed only because they are blind to this, they can only see the physical of God, the rituals.
-JGIG