Subject: Why ask Why? Why ask Where? |
Bible Note: kalos, Right. You have to keep the law, as you say, just in the spiritual sense. But being "not under the law" does not mean do whatever you want to do. That would be open license to sin, and that's precisely the point it seems you are addressing. I agree with you. To say we are no longer under the law is not to say that we need not keep the law. Being under grace instead of under the law, walking by the spirit instead of by the letter, is a matter of method and perception. Keeping it by the letter means paying attention to every little commandment, tradition, ritual, etc., and you will inevitably fail. Keeping it by the spirit is easy, because knowing that love is the foundation of all the commandments, traditions, rituals, etc., we are able, by the spirit within us (thus the laws written on our hearts and minds), to walk according to righteousness in all the fullness of the law as originally intended. In knowing the right; in being a slave to righteousness, we can reject evil before it becomes the stumbling block the written law surely becomes. And it is all done through unfeigned love of the brethren ... for this is the word that, by the gospel, was preached to us. I think we're close to being on the same page. :oP Theo-Minor |