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To: ATX 1985
Before your question can be answered in a way that is rational to you, I need to know from what moral code you are deriving your questions. Using phrases such as “horrid lines” and “cruel things” tell me that you are using moral code to judge or at least question “moral” code...

Secondly, remember the story of Jesus who when asked by villagers,(who were said to be following “horrid lines”), what to do with an accused prostitute...did he not say”Let those of you WITHOUT SIN cast the first stone.”? Christ did not deny the authenticity of those “horrid lines”, he was questioning the moral authority of those who wanted to carry the instructions of those”horrid lines” out on some poor prostitute.

Christ said he “came not to destroy the Law”(or those “horrid lines” again... he said he came to “fullfill them”. Christ acting as righteous judge did not deny the law as he was the fullfillment of the Law, yet he rebuked the lawlessness of the villagers and showed mercy to the prostitute. Ultimately, using your terms for God as “surpassing time” and acting transtemporally, God in flesh allowed himself to be hung on a cross, taking the whole weight of the Law(those “horrid lines” again) onto himself and for all time! We are all like the “prostitute”, deserving of death and Hell having transgressed God's law(or His “horrid lines”), yet all men have sinned as well and there is no one who has any real moral authority to bring us into condemnation except the Christ.

Yet Christ wants to save and forgive all of us, the same as he did the prostitute. When we find Christ, we find in him the fullfillment of the law(”horrid lines again”) and his laws are written into our hearts...out side of Christ we remain condemned by that same law and await certain death and hell fire.

So the real question to you should be, what will you do with the grace being extended to you? The LAW or those “horrid laws” have been fullfilled in Christ and his death and resurrection. He has the power of life, death and hell over all of us yet he knows that in our own efforts we can never fullfill the conditions of the Law(those “horrid lines” again). Even if each of us could live sinless going forward, there is still the great mass of our past personal sins that mark each of us for destruction.

The Blood of God has been poured out as that last but perfect sacrifice(the “horrid lines” demanded animal blood to cover the yearly sins of the nation of the Hebrew Israel) for our sins. There is no more sacrifice of innocent animals needed, God in Flesh did the needed “horrid” thing. Any man who is washed clean by that blood has become acceptable in the sight of the Father and heaven...the Law (horrid lines) has no more power over him;he has, like Christ, the Law(”horrid lines”) fullfilled in him!

20 posted on 03/08/2010 4:14:14 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: mdmathis6
moral code?


33 posted on 03/08/2010 7:46:10 AM PST by Quix (THOSE who worked to land us here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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