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1 | Did Christ not fulfill the law? | Matt 5:17 | There | 22108 | ||
Are you saying that first one must have "faith" and then they must or should keep "torah"? Can we add to our salvation by our own works? If God hasn't written his "torah" on a person's heart concerning a certain thing... it would only be works of the flesh, not works of faith. That is one reason Paul was against legalism. Galatians 3:1-9 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? HAVING BEGUN IN THE SPIRIT, ARE YOU NOW BEING MADE PERFECT BY THE FLESH? Have you suffered so many things in vain -- if indeed it was in vain? Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law. or by the hearing of faith? -- just as Abraham "believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the nations by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed." So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham. Abraham believed God -- had faith. Abraham wasn't given the "promise" because he kept "torah" which had not even been given yet. It was by faith that Abraham was saved, and because He believed God he obeyed God's commands to HIM. |
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2 | Did Christ not fulfill the law? | Matt 5:17 | Magnum | 22273 | ||
What was Paul(Sha'ul) doing taking Greek converts to the Temple to make a sacrifice in Acts 21:26. Paul should have understood, if anyone, that sort of thing was no longer to be done. | ||||||
3 | Did Christ not fulfill the law? | Matt 5:17 | kalos | 22274 | ||
As to why Paul was taking these men to the Temple to make "an offering" (NKJV), see verse 24. "*pay their expenses.*" The expenses were "for the temple ceremony in which the 4 would shave their heads, and the sacrifices associated with the Nazirite vow. Paying those expenses for another was considerered an act of piety, and by so doing, Paul would give further proof that he had not forsaken his Jewish heritage" (page 1674, MacArthur Study Bible, Word Publishing, 1997). Acts 21:28-29. "*brought Greeks into the temple.* The Asian Jews accused Paul of having brought Trophimus past the Court of the Gentiles into the part of the temple which Gentiles were forbidden. Such a charge was absurd, for it would have entailed Paul's risking his friend's life (the Romans had granted the Jews permission to execute any Gentile who so defiled the temple)" (page 1675, MacArthur Study Bible, Word Publishing, 1997). |
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