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1 | Unclean food for the Christian? | Lev 1:1 | kalos | 105966 | ||
Kwigger: What do I make of all the verses I quoted? I take them at face value. I don't know of any other way to interpret them. Also, I would like to reiterate what I posted before: Many times I have heard people say that in Matthew 5:17, the word "fulfill" means to abolish. If that be true, then Jesus is saying: "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law...I did not come to abolish, but to abolish." --kalos |
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2 | Unclean food for the Christian? | Lev 1:1 | Morant61 | 105978 | ||
Greetings Kalos! I should have made my point clearer in my previous post to you. Allow me to state it a little differently. Could it be that Mt. 5:17-18 means something like the following (to use a modern illustration)? "I have not come to break my contract, but to honor it!" Having said that though, a contract can have a built in termination point. So, one can honor a contract, yet the contract can still expire. This is how I interpret Jesus' comments, especially in light of Paul's comments concerning the Law. 1) Rom. 10:4 - "Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes." 2) Gal. 3:19 - "What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator." 3) Gal. 3:23 - "Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. 24 So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. 25 Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law." So, how I understand Jesus' comment is that He has fulfilled the purpose of the Law, and now the term of the contract has expired. The Law has served it's purpose and is no longer in effect. Abolishing the Law would have meant destroying it without allowing it to fulfill it's purpose. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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3 | Unclean food for the Christian? | Lev 1:1 | Asis | 105981 | ||
Brother Tim How does Matthew 5:17-18 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. [18] For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. [KJV] fit in with what you are saying? Jesus seems to be telling us that the Law will stay in effect until the end of the age. I think that we as believers are not under the Law of sin and death but now are under a new Law, the law of the Spirit of life (Romans 8:2). Is it possible that when we try to do this "walk" by our own understanding and in our own effort that we place ourselves back under the Law that is still in effect for non-believers? The Law was the way to righteousness. A way that none of us could completely follow. A way of works. The purpose of the law was to show us that we, in our own effort, could not attain that which only Jesus was able to do, BE RIGHTEOUS. By our own inability to ovserve the Law in it entirety we learn how much sin is in control of our lives. We find that is is only through Jesus that we are able to attain the unattainable. Romans 3:21-28 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; [22] Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: [23] For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; [24] Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: [25] Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; [26] To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. [27] Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. [28] Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. [KJV] So now I understand that we are no longer under the law of sin and death but have a new and better contract the law of the Spirit of life. Not that the law has been abolished but that it has been superceded. In Christ Jeff |
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4 | Unclean food for the Christian? | Lev 1:1 | Morant61 | 105996 | ||
Greetings Jeff! Thanks for the response my friend! I'm not sure I would use the word 'superceded' as much as simply 'run it's course'! :-) My question about v. 18 though concerned the 'until' part of the verse. I know that the usual interpretation is that the law will be in effect until the end of the age, but the verse actually say until 'all is accomplished'. Personally, I see this as a reference to the finished work of the cross. But, I could be wrong! :-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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