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NASB | James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole Law but stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of [breaking] all of it. |
Bible Question:
Thank you for responding. I asked a poor question. It should have been: Where is the _Biblical_ definition of what constitutes the Moral, Ceremonial, and Civil Law? Where in Scripture can I go to see that the Law was viewed by prophet or apostle as divided into multiple types or sections. Steve |
Bible Answer: Steve: I think it is a situation like the doctrine of the Trinity. There is not one verse that points it out, but taken as a whole, the New Testament reveals it. For example, in Acts 10 and 15 (and in 1 Corinthians and Romans 14), we see that dietary laws are no longer in force. Hebrews makes it clear that sacrifices are no longer to be practiced, since they prefigured the reality which has already come in Christ's atonement. In addition, since Israel as an autonomous nation no longer existed, most of the civil instructions could no longer be followed. Paul and James both approvingly re-iterate the Ten Commandments, however, in their moral instructions to Gentile believers (Ephesians 6:2,3; Romans 13:9; Ephesians 5:5; James 2). Nowhere do the apostles say that the Ten Commandments (moral laws) are not applicable to believers. In fact, they say that loving them and following them is a mark of the true believer. We are not saved by adherence to the law, but by faith; however, true saving faith will produce in us adherence to God's moral law. It is our faith through which we are saved, but that faith results in works which correspond to God's holy and moral standards. The Holy Spirit doesn't move me to slaughter sheep and goats, nor to avoid pork, but rather to love my neighbor as myself and to love the Lord with all my strength, heart, soul, and mind. --Joe! |