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1 | "the law is spiritual, but I am carnal" | Rom 7:14 | kalos | 165162 | ||
God's laws were NOT nailed to the cross The "Handwriting of Requirements" ____________________ "Some commentators have erred in saying that God's laws have been against us and were nailed to the cross." ____________________ Col 2:14 Good News Translation he canceled the unfavorable record of our debts with its binding rules and did away with it completely by nailing it to the cross. Col. 2:14 Holman Christian Standard Bible He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross. 'Christ "wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us...having nailed it to the cross" (Colossians 2:14, NKJ). What kind of requirements are being discussed? 'The Greek word for "handwriting" is cheirographon, used in common Greek for a document written in one's own hand as legal proof of indebtedness. Some modern translations call it a bond of indebtedness. 'Christ wiped out a note of debt. What kind of debts did Christ cancel? He canceled our spiritual debts, our sins, our transgressions of God's law, and this is what the note of debt refers to. In his crucifixion, Christ symbolically nailed our note of debt to his cross because his sacrifice paid our debts. 1 Peter 2:24 uses a similar analogy. 'The Greek word for "requirements" (KJV "ordinances") is dogmasin, a form of the word dogma, which is used only five times in the New Testament. Dogma can refer to decrees of Caesar (Luke 2:1, Acts 17:7) or apostolic decrees (Acts 16:4). In other writings of that era, dogma could also refer to the commandments of God (3 Maccabees 1:3, Josephus, Against Apion 1, 42) or the commandments of Jesus (Barnabas 1:6, Ignatius to the Magnesians 13:1). 'Commentators generally agree that dogma in Colossians 2:14 refers to God's laws. That makes the most sense in the context, because our spiritual debts have come from breaking God's laws. However, some commentators have erred in saying that God's laws have been against us and were nailed to the cross. 'The meaning becomes more clear if we notice that cheirographon is singular and dogmasin is plural. It is the cheirographon, the note of debt, that "was [singular] against us, which was [singular] contrary to us. And He has taken it [singular] out of the way, having nailed it [singular] to the cross." The last part of verse 14 is about the handwriting, not the requirements. 'God's laws are not against us. It is the note of debt, our sin, that has been against us. The validity of the laws is not in question here; the fact that we incur a debt if we fail to keep the requirements implies that Paul is refering to laws that are valid.' Michael Morrison ____________________ www.wcg.org/lit/bible/epis/Col214.htm Col 2:14 |
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2 | "the law is spiritual, but I am carnal" | Rom 7:14 | DocTrinsograce | 165168 | ||
Good quote, Brother Kalos! If you'll allow, let me add a couple more to augment them. In Him, Doc "When God gives orders and tells us what will happen if we fail to obey those orders perfectly, that is in the category of what the reformers, following the biblical text, called law. When God promises freely, providing for us because of Christ's righteousness the status He demands of us, this is in the category of gospel. It is good news from start to finish. The Bible includes both, and the reformers were agreed that the Scriptures taught clearly that the law, whether Old or New Testament commands, was not eliminated for the believer. Nevertheless, they insisted that nothing in this category of law could be a means of justification or acceptance before a holy God... The law comes, not to reform the sinner nor to show him or her the 'narrow way' to life, but to crush the sinner's hopes of escaping God's wrath through personal effort or even cooperation. All of our righteousness must come from someone else -- someone who has fulfilled the law's demands. Only after we have been stripped of our 'filthy rags' of righteousness (Isaiah 64:6) -- our fig leaves through which we try in vain to hide our guilt and shame -- can we be clothed with Christ's righteousness. First comes the law to proclaim judgment and death, then the gospel to proclaim justification and life. One of the clearest presentations of this motif is found in Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. In the sixteenth century, the issue of law and grace was more clearly dealt with than at almost any other time since the apostles." --from Modern Reformation "Some good men who, in grievous error, would impose the law as a rule of life (means of salvation) for the believer mean very well by it (for they strive to be pious); but the whole principle is false. The law, instead of being a rule of life, is necessarily a rule of death to one who has a sin nature. Far from being a delivering power, it can only condemn such. Far from being a means of holiness, it is, in fact, and according to Paul, 'the strength of sin' (I Corinthians 15:56)." --William Kelly |
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