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1 | What does judgement look like | 2 Cor 5:10 | Morant61 | 214050 | ||
Greetings Bill! We had someone ask a similar question recently based upon a newspaper editorial. The simplest answer is that the Mosaic Law was a covenant between God and Israel. As I am not an Israelite, the restriction concerning mixing materials does not apply to me. :-) Thus, the passage is authoritative (as God's Word), but it does not apply directly to me. Another example would be God's command to Noah to build an ark. The command is authoritative, but does not apply directly to me (else we would all have to build an ark). :-) My original point though was that you differentiate between the Scriptural words of Christ and the Scriptural words of Paul, yet both have the full authority of God's Word. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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2 | What does judgement look like | 2 Cor 5:10 | bill0624 | 214059 | ||
Tim, in all honesty, I am perplexed by your reply. You say that you see the entire Bible as being authoritative for you but that some parts of it don’t apply to you. I say that I don’t see the entire Bible as being authoritative to me and, therefore, some parts of it don’t apply to me. If the end result is the same, that we both agree that not everything in the Bible applies to us, then why am I being chastised for saying that some parts of the Bible are not authoritative for me? I simply don’t understand the logic of this. I would agree that the Law of Moses was authoritative for the Jews. But the apostle Paul said that he was no longer under the Law. Does that mean that if he were here, he would be asked to leave this forum because he no longer considered to the Law of Moses to be authoritative in his life? |
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3 | What does judgement look like | 2 Cor 5:10 | Morant61 | 214087 | ||
Greetings Bill! I think you missed my point my friend! All Scripture is authoritative, but not all Scripture is directly applicable to everyone. Remember the example I used of Noah? God commanded Noah to build an ark. Was that command authoritative? Was it historical and true? Yes! However, the command was specifically addressed to Noah, not to me. Therefore, to argue that if all of Scripture is authoritative then I need to 'obey' every part of it would mean that I would have to go and build an ark. :-) But, God did not command ME to build an ark. It was an historical command, given to an historical person, in a given context. Your example of obeying the Laws of Moses is another example of this. The Law of Moses was an historical covenant, made with an historical people, which is not binding upon me as a gentile or as a Christian. Do I need to offer up a lamb every year now that Christ has offered Himself up as the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world? Of course not! But, saying that the Law is not applicable to me does not mean that it is not Scripture. The difference between our two positions is that you reject the authority or the reality of Scriptures with which you do not agree, where I accept the authority of all Scripture, but argue that it must be understood in context. If Paul were here today, I am sure there would be someone who would think that he or she knew better than him. ;-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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