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To: annalex
For example, a Jewish law said that one is obligated to circumcise his children. That is a work of law, in this case Hebrew law, that is not salvific for that very reason

Using your logic then, since Jewish/Hebrew law included the Ten Commandments, we can worship false gods, use the name of God in vain, dishonor our parents, steal, murder, commit adultery, etc., but as long as we do "works of love" we can be saved???

The the counterscriptural heresy is with that kind of thinking, my FRiend.

786 posted on 06/19/2010 8:44:18 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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To: boatbums
That is correct, even the Ten Commandments are not salvific in the way the Pharisaic legalistic tradition has them. Matthew 5-7 explains that the Ten Commandments pack a complex and not legalistic ethical system.

However, it is good to look at the Ten Commandments as well as the list of Cardinal Sins for one's own examination of conscience, which can lead to a good confession. It is of course even better to avoid any such violations in the first place.

It is, of course, a satanic idea that one can violate them with imputiny because they are Hebrew Law.

No one is arguing simply against Law -- which, Christ said, is fulfilled rather than abolished. Law is not salvific. It does not mean violating the Law is not condemnable.

861 posted on 06/21/2010 5:44:10 AM PDT by annalex
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To: boatbums; annalex

“Using your logic then, since Jewish/Hebrew law included the Ten Commandments, we can worship false gods, use the name of God in vain, dishonor our parents, steal, murder, commit adultery, etc., but as long as we do “works of love” we can be saved???”

There is no logic in this post. It is a perfect example of reductio absurdum fallacious reasoning.


884 posted on 06/21/2010 9:06:00 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (A loud band of PaulBots, Isolationists, Protectionists, 911Inside Jobnuts, 3rdParty Loud Irrelevants)
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