Bible Question:
The issue of the fourth commandment has raised the broader issue of the Christian and the Law of God. What is our relation to the law of God? Are we under it? Are we obligated to keep the Law of God, or are we free from it? Which laws are we obligated to keep? Scripture teaches that while we are not under the Law's condemnation, we are not free from our obligation to obey the commands of God as they are summarized in the Ten Commandments, and expanded on in the rest of Scripture. The Ten Commandments are the moral law of God to man. So, while we are freed FROM sin, we are not free TO sin. Christ saved us for holiness, and under the ministry of the Spirit, the law serves "as a rule of life informing (us) of the will of God, and (our) duty,...direct(-ing) and bind(-ing) (us) to walk accordingly; discovering also the sinful pollutions of (our) nature, hearts, and lives; so as examing (our-)selves thereby, (we) may come to further conviction of, humiliation for and hatred against sin, together with a clearer sight of the need (we) have of Christ, and the perfection of His obedience." Westminster Confession of Faith, Chatper 19, paragraph 6. However, God does free the New Testament Church from the civil and ceremonial laws that he gave through Moses to his Old Testament Church. I understand that the dispansationalist Christians following Scofield and others believe that the Scriptures teach that New Testament saints are not obligated to keep the Law as summarized in the Ten Commandments. |
Bible Answer: Lionstrong, I didn't take your last comments in a negative tone, but I wanted to ask, did you mean to suggest that dispensationalist are 'followers' of Scofield, or simply mean we follow the teaching he popularized? "In 1965, Dr. Charles Ryrie refocused dispensationalism. He suggested that what was essential to dispensationalism was not necessarily a specific prophetic timetable or belief in a certain number of dispensations. The essence of dispensationalism was a threefold sine qua non: 1. an understanding that the basic purpose of God's plan in history is manifesting His own glory, 2. a consistent employment of a normal or plain interpretation of the Scriptures,(This plain interpretation includes the correct identification and interpretation of figures of speech, symbols, and apocalyptic imagery. The problem is that the covenant theologians and other non-dispensationalists identification of these figures is much broader than the dispensationalist interpretation and is inconsistently applied. (Robert Dean Jr.)) 3. and a distinction between God's plan for ethnic and national Israel and the New Testament Church." (Essentials of Dispensational Theology,Robert Dean, Jr.) Lastly, I'd like to research your comments about Moral and Civil vs Ceremonial law in the New Testament. Could you give me the Scriptures that teach us that we are still under the Moral Law and no longer under the Ceremonial and Civil Law? Thanks, GOD bless! |
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