Posted on 02/27/2010 6:43:10 AM PST by chicagolady
There’s hardly an evangelical who doesn’t know about Wheaton College. Alma Mater of the Reverend Billy Graham, Wheaton boasts a student body of superior intellect and an education rivaling much of the Ivy League. Wheaton College graduates can boast of presidential speech writers and Speakers of the United States House of Representatives along with doctors and executives and professors and missionaries and pastors across the globe.
But Wheaton is different. Founded by an anti-slavery father and son, Jonathan and Charles Blanchard, Wheaton was established as a chain in the Underground Railroad to help runaway slaves. Wheaton’s distinctive has always been to educate students not only with knowledge but with wisdom. All truth is God’s truth. The knowledge of God brings greater understanding, not less … the acknowledgement of Him brings order from chaos in science, mathematics and economic systems. To be a Christ follower can bring the highest of intellectual pursuits, not the Bible thumping ignorance Hollywood would portray.
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Those 600 or so ‘laws’ you talk about did not come through Moses. Those were ‘laws’ that were of the Pharisees. Many are still ‘practiced’ or ‘enforced’ today, of course.
The first ‘law’ was ‘do not eat of the tree...’ - God’s law.
The next ten, ‘The Ten Commandments’, were through Moses, but also God’s law.
The 600 or so that the Pharisees imposed on others, not necessarily on themselves (like the leftists in the US Congress) were not God’s laws.
Jesus (Yeshua) simplified all of that - Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and love your neighbor as you love yourself.
Jesus said the whole law was Love.
Psalm 147:19-20 “He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and His laws to Israel. He did not do so to any other nation, of His laws they were not informed.”
Your point?
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