Bible Question:
What of the Mosaic Law applies to me a Gentile Christian? I have been seeking an answer to this question for the last six years and have often been frustrated at the slow pace in finding good answers from people who have different views. I could use some help. While I have come a long way in my search and have ended up where I never expected when I started, I felt that it would have been more effective for me to have had quality articles written in support of each view. I have been surprised by the fact that it is very difficult to find any article written to answer this specific question. The best I could do was find mentions of it in passing, or in bullet point form. Maybe even a short 1-2 page paper giving the overall points of a theological viewpoint, but as of yet, I have not found one excellently written article which covers the topic thoroughly, and uses primary sources when applicable. In fact, most positions are so poorly written, that when confronted, the author is at a loss. Therefore, I am collecting the best of the best theological scholarly papers on this question from every main view point that has substance. If anyone here knows of good articles supporting any view well, I’d love to know of them. I have found none so far…only mediocre articles. MJH |
Bible Answer: Dear MJH, I'm a Jewish Christian, and I can answer that question as I have had to answer that question. Frankly, it still surprises me that there are believers who cannot do so -- Galatians and Hebrews are pretty explicit, harmonizing quite well with Romans. Woe to our churches that fail to adequately teach these very fundamental doctrines of the faith! Off the top of my head: Augustine, Chrysostom, Tertillian, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Beza, Zwingli, Pascal, Knox, Owen, Winslow, Toplady, Whitfield, Wesley, Edwards, Spurgeon, Pink, Warfield, Machen, Sproul to name a few in the last twenty centuries have written volumes on this subject alone! If you haven't been able to find sound theological discussion on this topic, all I can imagine is that you are living a theologically and literary cloistered life. No offense intended, but you should be up to your eyeballs in stuff to read. You could spend a lifetime just on that topic and still have stuff left to read! Have you ever tackled a good systematic theology? Probably every single one of them has a section on the nature of the law. Anyway, here are a few couple page articles to read. In the mean time, start Googling, man! :-) In Him, Doc http://www.ccel.org/ccel/luther/sermons.v.html http://www.christiantruth.com/gospelintro.html http://www.mountzion.org/text/marrow/c3s12.html http://www.gracevalley.org/radio_trans/antinomianism.html http://www.the-highway.com/law1_Alderson.html http://www.the-highway.com/lawandgospel_Colquhoun.html http://www.the-highway.com/articleFeb00.html http://www.frame-poythress.org/frame_articles/2002Law.htm http://www.covopc.org/Papers/Moo_Critique_Fuller.html http://www.the-highway.com/lawgospel_Walther.html http://www.founders.org/FJ58/article2_fr.html |