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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Unanswered Bible Questions Author: chris a Ordered by Date |
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1 | Still under 10 C's? | Ps 111:7 | chris a | 57786 | ||
respectHim, How about using II Cor. 3:7-9 to justify not practicing the 4th commandment, "But if the MINISTRY OF DEATH written and engraved on STONES was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory WAS PASSING AWAY, how will the Spirit not be more glorious? For if the MINISTRY OF CONDEMNATION had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory." NKJV (emphasis mine) When did Moses veil his face? What part of the Law was engraved on stones? What is this text referring to in the Old Testament? (hint: Ten Commandments) Clearly the ministry of the Spirit is different and distinct from the ministry of condemnation and death written and engraved on stones (i.e. the Law INCLUDING the Ten Commandments!) Your opinions on Col. 2:15,16 may have support but they are in no wise conclusive. I think you'll have more trouble dancing around the above Scripture which confirms that we are no longer under the Law (any of it)! I must also mention your misinterpretation of Scripture which borders on misrepresentation for a specific view point! Lets examine Rms 7:1-12 (ASV) '¶ Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband. So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ;' Paul gives a detailed example of how one is freed from law and then shows why Christians are free from the Law and married to Christ. 'that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.' Again, Paul states that we are no longer under the Law, here we are discharged from the Law because sin was wrought through the Law. '¶ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet: but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead. And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died; and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death: for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.' Notice that SIN attacks US through the Law! Yes, the Law is holy and good, but we are corrupted by sin and as long as the Law lives in us sin still takes advantage of our weakness! Also, notice what section of the Law Paul uses to make his point, 'Thou shalt not covet' and this is of course one of the Ten Commandments which again makes clear that we are NOT under the Ten Commandments. 'So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.' Clearly, your use of verse 12 out of context manipulates the meaning! Paul stresses through out ch. 7 that we are no longer under the Law, but you choose to quote only verse 12! Yes the Law is holy, but sin kills because of human weakness and sin exploits that weakness through the holy Law! For the record Rms 2:13 is also out of context, Paul is making an argument to Jews that having the Law doesn't make them doers of the Law. And that discussion leads to the consumation of this first argument in the great book of Romans, 3:20, 'Therefore by the deeds of the law NO FLESH WILL BE JUSTIFIED in His (GOD's) sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.'NKJV (emphasis mine). So, why don't we recognize the Sabbath, because we are no longer under the Law including the 4th commandment! As an additional aside, the Sabbath came before the Law and we do recognize it in a Spiritual sense, reference Hebrews for the Sabbath rest that we enter when we sacrifice our works toward salvation and enter the rest of GOD! But this recognition has nothing to do with Saturday. GOD bless, chris |
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