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1 | Can you break the OT Law? | Matt 5:17 | Searcher56 | 173137 | ||
It is a matter of how you read the Bible. Are you free to break (any part of) the Law? What is your understanding of abolished and fulfill? If you are wrong - then you will be called least in the kingdom. The Law was incomplete without Him. The penalty of the Law was death ... and He paid for that penalty, once for all, something the OT sacrifices could not |
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2 | Can you break the OT Law? | Matt 5:17 | Jagfire | 173166 | ||
In place of the Old Testament law, we are under the law of Christ which is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments” (Matthew 22:37-40). Technically, the Ten Commandments are not applicable to Christians.. HOWEVER, 9 of the Ten Commandments are repeated in the New Testament (all except the command to observe the Sabbath day). Obviously, if we are loving God we won't be worshipping other gods or worshipping idols. If we are loving our neighbors, we won't be murdering them, lying to them, committing adultery against them, or coveting what belongs to them. So, we are not under any of the requirements of the Old Testament law. We are to love God and love our neighbors. If we do those two things faithfully, everything else will fall into place. |
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3 | Can you break the OT Law? | Matt 5:17 | Wild Olive Shoot | 173171 | ||
Jude 1:4 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. “Turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness - Abusing the doctrines of grace so as to give indulgence to corrupt and carnal propensities. That is, probably, they gave this form to their teaching, as Antinomians have often done, that by the gospel they were released from the obligations of the law, and might give indulgence to their sinful passions in order that grace might abound. Antinomianism began early in the world, and has always had a wide prevalence. The liability of the doctrines of grace to be thus abused was foreseen by Paul, and against such abuse he earnestly sought to guard the Christians of his time, Rom_6:1, following.” – Albert Barnes Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 1John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. “if we keep his commandments; not the commandments of men, for the keeping of them arises from ignorance of God, and is a proof of it; nor the commandments of the ceremonial law, which are abolished, particularly circumcision, which is opposed to the keeping of the commandments of God, 1Co_7:19; but either those of the moral law, and which are more particularly the commandments of God the Father; the observance of which, though it cannot be with perfection, yet being in faith, and from love to God, and with a view to his glory, is an evidence of the true knowledge of him and of his will: or else those commandments, which are more especially the commandments of Christ Jesus; such as the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's supper, which are peculiar to the Gospel dispensation; and which being kept as they were delivered by Christ, and in his name and strength, and to his glory, without depending on them for life and salvation, is an argument and proof of the right knowledge of him; and particularly his new commandment of loving one another may be chiefly designed, that being what the apostle has greatly in view throughout this epistle…” – John Gill If nine of the Ten Commandments are repeated in the New Testament, then please explain how “technically” they are not applicable to Christians? WOS |
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