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Subject: Are we free from KEEPING the Law? |
Bible Note: Colin, have you ever read the Books of Romans or James; from which the following exerpts are provided: Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died is freed from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. James 1:25 But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. James 2:12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. So you see this Law of Liberty, we call Christianity is far, far superior to the OT as cited throughout the Book of Hebrews. But we do benefit from study of the OT and compare it to the NT. Thus we learn why the Scribes and Pharisees were the way they were and why our Lord Jesus was so harsh with them. They had all this history with God and the Law of Moses to educate them but the Jewish leadership never seemed to learn much depth at all. They had developed an extensive road system and a good system of education. They had a perfectly good high functioning economy and a political system to rival that of the Roman Government. But they were amazingly shallow in thinking about God and His World of the Spiritual Realm. So "Yes" to your question. I have read the whole OT; I'll admit it's been several years and I need to re-read it, especially the latter half as you've suggested. But I must admit this is the second time someone has asked me that question. Would you mind explaining why you seem to think I'm missing out on something? To me it seems you and several others of you are missing my point of this post and others I lodged on this topic. The most difficult aspect of this topic I'm dealing with is the extreme amount of avoidance from you folks on the points I make with my posts. I support these points with scriptures that clearly state the superiority of Christianity over the OT. Christ most emphatically DIDN'T destroy the Law of Moses, He took It with Him to cross and crucified It along with Himself. That's one reason He said "It's finished" as He fulfilled the Law. He was the single human being in all of God's Creation that could possibly meet the qualification and be that Perfect Sacrifice. When something is fulfilled, it is completed, it's done and is put away on a shelf as a relic, available for study but it's no longer to be looked at for authoritative guidance. That's why we have the NT. So, will you respond to my post, point by point and address the specific scriptures I've provided? Please do but if you need a little more time, I can understand. Regardless of your choice to respond or not, I'll pray God's blessings on you and yours. --Rowdy |