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Can you explain it?
The context is quite clear, he said Jesus ended the law.
Originally posted by sk0rpi0n
reply to post by backcase
But paul kept the idea that homosexuality is a mortal sin.
I don't wish to hijack your thread but you are giving me the impression that Paul was a hypocrite for teaching that the law (inlcuding the law against homosexuality) was abolished.... yet maintains that homosexuals are damned.
In no way do I agree with the practice of homosexuality.
Neither do I.
But you are the one who seems to be agreeing with Paul....a hypocrite who says the law is abolished... but still condemns homosexuals referring to either the Old Testament law against it... or speaking from his own bias.
Originally posted by adjensen
Originally posted by backcase
The answer was there for us all along, but we did not understand it.
I guess you'd have to add me to the list of those who do not understand it -- I don't see how that passage has anything to do with Paul.
"Said"?
Anyone who breaks the law is under the law because the law is for lawbreakers. Anyone who follows Grace, the pursuit of unconditional love, will not break the law because by nature love does not go against the law. This is what Paul said and what Jesus said.
Attacking 'Paul' in my mind is the equivalent of attacking Christianity.
Acts 1:21-22 New International Version (NIV) 21 Therefore it is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us, 22 beginning from John’s baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”
"Hearsay"? Peter was a witness, and not for no good reason, he was the one who was always there, along with John probably, with Jesus and knew everything Jesus did and thought. Also he specifically was designated as the one to found the church, and to lead it.
Everything he heard about Jesus was hearsay from the apostles
and final declarations of faith from about-to-be-dead proto-christians.
God can choose who He wants to be an Apostle and we don't set the rules for who can or cannot be one. Paul would have had all the experiences of one being given the task of true Apostleship.
Paul added words and twisted the messages of Jesus for his own Glory.
He is not even qualified to be an apostle...
The 'apocalyptic' stuff is in 2 Thess. which I do not accept as genuine and rather a forgery written after Paul had died or otherwise left the public scene.
Paul presented Jesus as an apocalyptic preacher, freaking people out about the end of the world and Christ reappearing to "Judge" us.
OK, let's look at the context, then.
You are creating your own context based on your conclusion.
John 15
10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
1 Timothy 1:8 8 We know that the law is good when used correctly. 9 For the law was not intended for people who do what is right. It is for people who are lawless and rebellious, who are ungodly and sinful, who consider nothing sacred and defile what is holy, who kill their father or mother or commit other murders.
Mathew 5:17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Romans 13:10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the (unconditional love)grace of God I am what I am, and his(unconditional love) grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the (unconditional love) grace of God that is with me.
Romans 3:20-24 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his (unconditional love )grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
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Hebrews 10:8-10 8 First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law. 9 Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Romans 6:14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Luke 11:42 "Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.
Colossians 2:20-23 20 Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. 23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
I doesn't say that in any translation, so stop pretending that it does.
He said the law ended.
1 Timothy 1:5," The end of the commandment is charity;" the main design or purpose of the command is to produce love; 1 Peter 1:9, "The end of your faith, the salvation of your souls;" the main design or purpose of faith is to secure salvation; Romans 14:9, "To this end Christ both died," etc. For this design or purpose. This is doubtless its meaning here. "The main design or object which the perfect obedience of the Law would accomplish, is accomplished by faith in Christ."
I'm not making an argument about that, so I have no idea what you are objecting to.
Why does Jesus say to keep the commands when that's not really true?
So, just rewrite the Bible to suite your preconceived ideas rather than learning what the writer actually meant? That makes things simpler.
1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the (unconditional love)grace of God I am what I am, and his(unconditional love) grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the (unconditional love) grace of God that is with me.
. . .all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his (unconditional love )grace as a gift . . .
I don't . . for one thing, I don't believe anyone is 'saved' in the popular connotation of the word. That is yet to be seen, at the end of time.
You say that people are saved apart from the law . . .