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To: Olog-hai

Nobody gets away with “sin” — but “sin” is a category that transcends law. Law is a ready metric for how well one is living in the opposite of sin which is righteousness.

The commandment of Christ is to follow Him in love. And if we are honest we will look at ourselves and say that we are bucking Him, sometimes severely! We can feel that rebellion in our own bones and sometimes, sadly, we even call it righteousness! Such jags as what you have gotten into are one example of this. But God has mercy. He will have mercy on you.

Love — THAT’S the commandment He ties us to from here into an infinite eternity. A man might even in principle be able to keep that entire “Ten Commandments” from his youth up and when God looks at him in love and asks “OK, follow Me” — refuse because he’s tied to earthly things yet.

I am not an antinomian. (Anti being against, nomian meaning law.) I am more like a nomometric. (Nomos meaning law, metric meaning measurement.) People are going to expect you to obey law here on earth because that’s the way men have attempted to frame in love. Well, usually you can but sometimes the law of love says it’s time to transcend it.

And that is why Jesus carried on the way He did. There’s no other adequate explanation!


70 posted on 08/09/2013 5:26:22 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and mean it. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I notice that nary a scripture is quoted in your replies. With all due respect, I’ll take God’s word over that of any human; it is clear what He says.


71 posted on 08/09/2013 6:24:41 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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