Subject: Raven, do you want ALL the Law? |
Bible Note: With all due respect, you just repeated what you wrote before without commenting at all on the things I brought up in my last post on the subject. I agree that most of the Mosaic Covenant has never been applicable to me, as a Gentile believer. However, as you state here, if I love perfectly, I will do the things found in the Ten Commandments, and fulfill them in spirit as well as in the letter. So that is the problem I have with people saying that the moral aspects of the Law of Moses are null and void. No one can show me how to please God without referring to something stated in the moral code given to Moses. Everything you stated in this post and in your previous one about what it is to follow "the law of Christ" are also things explicitly stated in the Law of Moses. The best way to look at it is that the moral law of God, his righteous demands of His creation, precede and transcend the Mosaic Covenant. They are included there, but they were never limited to one specific group of people at one specific time and place. Adam sinned because he broke God's law. Abraham, when he sinned, was breaking God's law. Gentiles today, when they sin, are breaking God's law. None of them were part of the specific covenant God made with the people of Israel, but God's moral law, reflected in aspects of the Law of Moses, are binding on everyone at all times as a standard of righteousness, even though they were never a path to justification for anyone (including the Israelites). --Joe! |