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To: Tamar1973

You're failing to see the difference between the letter of the Law and the Spirit of the Law. The New Testament says you are cursed if you keep all the Law and fail in even one point. That's the entire human race other than Jesus Christ. James says if you break one you're guilty (essentially) of breaking them all.

Salvation is not a license to sin, but the Scripture is clear: No flesh shall be justified by the Law.

This is the whole point of Peter trying to get the people to follow the Law in addition and Paul rebuking him.

However, I've been through this before and it usually doesn't ever get resolved.


48 posted on 08/05/2004 11:04:25 AM PDT by Bobby777
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To: Bobby777
You're failing to see the difference between the letter of the Law and the Spirit of the Law. The New Testament says you are cursed if you keep all the Law and fail in even one point. That's the entire human race other than Jesus Christ. James says if you break one you're guilty (essentially) of breaking them all.

Salvation is not a license to sin, but the Scripture is clear: No flesh shall be justified by the Law.

But you are the one failing to see the point that eating pork was a sin before the cross, it is sin after the cross. Yeshua didn't change the definition of sin, He took upon Himself the penalty of sin (and what a cost it was/is).

Romans 6:1-6

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Paul goes on to say in verses 15-18:

15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which F23 was delivered you. 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Sin is sin. Adulter is a sin, so is eating pork. The only difference is that Yeshua died so we wouldn't have to bear being seperated from G-d for eternity because of sin. However, Yeshua's great and mighty sacrifice is NOT a license in indulgence of sin. Such an attitude mocks Yeshua.

49 posted on 08/05/2004 11:15:03 AM PDT by Tamar1973 ("He who is compassionate to the cruel, ends up being cruel to the compassionate." Chazal)
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