NOW you've done it! Are ya happy now? It was almost 5 hrs ago that he asked me that same question, and its been quiet up until NOW, BIGMOUTH!
BigMack
LOL! :o)
That Christians, because they have greater light, are under greater obligation to observe the precepts of the law than any others, is emphasized by the BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY in its Tract No. 64 which declares:
"To prove that the ten commandments are binding, let any person read them, one by one, and ask his own conscience as he reads, whether it would be any sin to break them. Is this, or any part of it, the liberty of the gospel? Every conscience that is not seared with a hot iron must answer these questions in the negative...The lawgiver and the Saviour were one; and believers must be of one mind with the former as well as with the latter; but if we depreciate the law which Christ delighted to honour, and deny our obligations to obey it, how are we of His mind? Rather are we not of that mind which is emnity against God, which is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be? If the law be not a rule of conduct to believers, and a perfect rule too, they are under no rule; or, which is the same thing, are lawless. But if so, they commit no sin; for where no law is there is no transgression; and in this case they have no sins to confess, either to God or to one another; nor do they stand in need of Christ as an advocate with the Father, nor of daily forgiveness through His blood. Thus it is, by disowning the law, men utterly subvert the gospel. Believers, therefore, instead of being freed from obligation to obey it, are under greater obligation do so than any men in the world. To be exempt from this is to be without law, and of course without sin; in which case we might do without a Saviour which is utterly subversive of all religion." (pages 2-6)