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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:
That still begs the question I posed to Searcher (who was more than kind in changing his user name, even though he didn't have to): If Christ fulfilled the Law, why do we teach one another to keep the "Moral Law"? Steve |
Bible Answer: Dear Steve, Greetings in Jesus' name! "Wisdom shouts in the street, She lifts her voice in the square;" Proverbs 1:20 NASB My friend, I think that if you were to take the sum total of what Jesus said about the Pharisee's ideas about 'keeping the Sabbath' or 'keeping the Law,' you would be led to the conclusion that both were set up as a light of wisdom, truth and common sense. The intent, the purpose was to get an unruly people to adhere to what they *should* do, and know what they *should* know. Even though the Ten Commandments were common sense and common knowledge (to anyone possessing a brain and faith toward God), AND they were written by the finger of God, they STILL couldn't keep them, and spent an inordinate amount of time and effort in figuring how to weasel out of them, or use them to their advantage. Now, praise God!, we have the Holy Spirit to lead us, from the inside, to all truth. The Sabbath and the Law were NOT abolished, but *enhanced.* They are made better! Their *tutorial* role is still intact, but the New Covenant has fulfilled their original intent and purpose. The thing that stands between us, as participants in this New Covenant, and spiritual adherence of these treasures, is the Old Covenant mentality of legalism and the *Old Man* mentality of self that we are *supposed to* be set free from. Sorry that I do not give a lot of Scripture to back this up, but I must be off... Blessings in Christ Jesus, charis |