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To: Star Traveler
And Paul was talking about the result of the law (which is the universal law of God; not the specific laws given to “national and divinely-granted sovereign Israel) — and that result is death, which has been from the time of Adam.

Lets look at the commandments time line.. from "the time of Adam"..

Before the Flood

After the Flood

1st Command:

"Be fruitful and multiply... have dominion... over every living thing that moves on the earth." Gen. 1:28

1st Command:

"Be fruitful and multiply... And the fear of you... shall be... on all that move on the earth..." Gen. 9:1-2

2nd Command:

"Of every tree... you may freely eat; but... of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat..." Gen. 1:29

2nd Command"

"Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you... But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is its blood." Gen. 9:3-4

3rd Command (Death penalty forbidden):

"Whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." Gen. 4:15

3rd Command: (Death penalty commanded):

"Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed... Gen. 9:6

 

These were the only three commands given to mankind before the flood, and the only three commands given to mankind after the flood and before Israel's covenant of circumcision.

123 posted on 05/06/2007 1:13:06 PM PDT by LowOiL (Paul wrote, "Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil" (Rom. 12:9))
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To: LowOiL

You said — “These were the only three commands given to mankind before the flood, and the only three commands given to mankind after the flood and before Israel’s covenant of circumcision.”

I have no idea what the point of what you’re saying is.

My statement that you’re quoting is the following —

“And Paul was talking about the result of the law (which is the universal law of God; not the specific laws given to “national and divinely-granted sovereign Israel) — and that result is death, which has been from the time of Adam. That death is the judgement of God. The violation of this (universal) law of God is not a resulting “stoning” to death, but the death which results from God’s judgement from the time of Adam.”

The universal law of God applies to all of mankind. The law that is for national and divinely-sovereign Israel is just for them. Since that Israel does not exist today, those laws cannot be applied or enforced. But the universal laws of God still apply and they do result in the judgement of God, that being death. We only come into “life” by faith in the Messiah of Israel, in the same way that the Apostle Paul described that Abraham did.


128 posted on 05/06/2007 4:01:44 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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