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To: editor-surveyor
“the law” is used in Paul’s epistles

Actually a good description of what Paul's talking about is found in 2 Corinthians 3:6-11 where he calls the law of the ten commandments "the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones" (v.7) and "the ministration of condemnation" (v.9) which glory is "done away" (v.7).

Again, it is not failure to keep the law that causes us to fall from grace. It is just the opposite. The whole of Galatians teaches that trying to be justified by the works of the law causes us to fall from grace and makes Christ "of no effect" (Gal 5:4). There is also a double curse on those who preach any other gospel than the gospel of the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ (Gal 1:8 & 1:9) which gospel he describes throughout the book of Galatians as well as Romans.

Paul changed nothing

That may be so. However, "the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw near unto God" (Hebrews 7:19).

21 posted on 12/18/2013 9:32:36 AM PST by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew
Paul changed nothing

Your post is good. Paul didn't change the law, he wrote that WE have changed, and are set free from the law. The Jerusalem Council said the same thing. I'll trust the Jerusalem Council over any modern Messianic.

24 posted on 12/18/2013 12:29:54 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: PapaNew
No, you totally miss the message in Galatians.

What the English translators called “the works of the law” was the false oral law of the Prushim.

And in 2Corinthians, you miss the fact that he called the laws written in stone “glorious.”

You have written your own gospel here and it is very much like Haggard’s.

You invent a false gospel in your twisting of Paul's words in Galatians 1; Paul called out no “gospel of Grace,”

[8] “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.”

Beware of the curse of adding to Yehova's word.

25 posted on 12/18/2013 1:20:59 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: PapaNew
No, you totally miss the message in Galatians.

What the English translators called “the works of the law” was the false oral law of the Prushim.

And in 2Corinthians, you miss the fact that he called the laws written in stone “glorious.”

You have written your own gospel here and it is very much like Haggard’s.

You invent a false gospel in your twisting of Paul's words in Galatians 1; Paul called out no “gospel of Grace,”

[8] “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.”

Beware of the curse of adding to Yehova's word.

26 posted on 12/18/2013 1:22:11 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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