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To: ducttape45

No. Here is an example of why I think Evangelicals don’t understand the law. That is their particular shortcoming, I respectfully think.

If God could suspend the law at any time, He could have suspended it prior to man’s Creation, negating the issue of sin and the need for Christ to die. If God could have negated the law, but only choose to do so after great suffering and the death of His Son, it means that God is not loving and longsuffering, which makes Him a liar, for that is what He says about Himself.

The fact that God did not negate the law for the sake of His Son and the fact that He says we will be keeping those very same in the New Earth means that the law is likely not negateable under and circumstances and is just as valid now as it was back then and will be in the future.


93 posted on 07/24/2011 12:33:58 PM PDT by Jonty30
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To: Jonty30

God’s purpose in promoting the law was to give man a schoolteacher to lead him to Christ. (Galatians 3:25) Had he negated it, there would be nothing to lead man to seek a Savior. But the law was not originally instituted by God. It was instituted by Adam when he ate from the Tree of the Knowledge and Good and Evil, and in so doing, gaining the knowledge of good, that which man doesn’t do he will be condemned for (James 4:17).

The Bible makes it clear we die to that law and rise to new life in the Law of Christ. Since the LOC is faith in Jesus, and not “the oldness of the letter” we are saved from all sin, as the strength of sin is the law (1 Corinthians 15:56). God is well able to set the conditions by which we can obey him, and that can include removing the law for believers. Now Christians are justified by faith alone, whereas the unbeliever has nothing to stand on but his works, all of which are filthy rags and cannot save him.


96 posted on 07/24/2011 1:00:48 PM PDT by Galactic Overlord-In-Chief (Our Joe Wilson can take the Dems' Joe Wilson any day of the week)
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To: Jonty30

I see that any further communication with you is impossible. You clearly do not have any grasp of the Gospel and your understanding of the Old Testament Law is flawed at best, completely clueless at the worst.


149 posted on 07/24/2011 5:58:01 PM PDT by ducttape45
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