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To: Diamond

You are not dead to the law. I am not dead to the law. Ever heard of Jesus’ sermon as relates to the Old Law? Essentially those laws are still “en force”, but he gave a different perspective to each law.

Period.


295 posted on 05/10/2012 3:24:40 PM PDT by Aqua225 (Realist)
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To: Aqua225
You are not dead to the law. I am not dead to the law. Ever heard of Jesus’ sermon as relates to the Old Law? Essentially those laws are still “en force”, but he gave a different perspective to each law. In the first place, the Law of Moses was intended only for Israel and was never given to Gentiles. If that were not enough:

Romans 3:
21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.
22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile,
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood —to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished —
26 he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

Galations 2:
15 “We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles
16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
17 “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!
18 If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker.
19 “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God.
20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”

Cordially,

310 posted on 05/10/2012 6:43:11 PM PDT by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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