[Diamond]

The Law that God instituted forever, among His people.....to you is creepy? [1 John 3:4] Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. Is this Law abolished? What Law is this? Why is John still speaking of observing God's Law if it's so creepy?

It is not the law of God that is creepy, it is the acting as if a superceded, obsolete covenant is still in force that is creepy. It is like a person coming into court brandishing a copy of the Articles of Confederation and just assuming that everyone in the court is going to be bound by that law. Once again you reflexively assume that John is referring to the Ten Commandments here, when we already know that we are not under the Old Covenant law anymore, but under the law of Christ.

Don't you understand that the Law which was abolished was the sacrificial Law [Hebrews 7:11-14] .....and not the Ten Commandments? Paul is telling us about that while John is telling us to obey the commandments [1 John 5:1-3]. Don't you really see the difference?

The only place a distinction between the laws on sacrifice and the Ten Commandments exists is in your mind. It does not exist in Scripture. The Scriptural interchangeabilty of the terms that appears in so many places proves beyond cavil that the Old Covenant was a single unit of laws. Some were moral and others were ceremonial, etc., but the "Statutes, Ordinances and Decrees" did not exist as separate codes of law.

[Galatians 3:19-25] 19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator [...]

The above was your first claim that the law was done away with. Please allow me to show you your error:

Besides the fact that it's not my claim - it is Paul's infallible claim, in the nine following paragraphs in which you discuss it you never once address the fact that Paul says that the law was added (430 years after Abraham, he says) which makes no sense if the law was already there as you contend. You still have not addressed this point.

Cordially,

[Godzilla]

Interesting, it is put forth that the dietary “law” are still in effect. Where are the dietary laws written in the 10 commandments? Interesting how the ‘law’ can be so loosely defined in one aspect and rigorously in another.