Ronald Nolette
Well-Known Member
I can see you believe that. However, I think you are not all that familiar with the ten commandments and the body of the church as Jesus intended in his mission when you divide moral behavior between an old covenant, and the new.
Are you someone who believes in replacement theology?
Well having walked with the Lord for 47 years now, and having been a bible college teacher, I think I would say I am familiar with what the ten commandments teach and the body of Christ.
I also want to let you know that of the ten commandments, none were carried over for moral clarity to the church. The Sabbath was not! But the purpose of the 1008 commands for the church , as opposed to the 613 to Israel serve a much different purpose! I do not obey thou shalt not commit adultery because it it found in Leviticus as given to Israel, but I obey it because it is given to the church in the New TEstament. I also do not obey taking my rebellious child to the gates of the town and stone them, either.
Remember what Paul said of the ten commandments:
2 Corinthians 3:5-9
King James Version
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
As Paul wrote in Galatians, the purpose of the law was to show that we are sinners and in Corinthians , the law empowered sin. theyu were written to condemn as Paul wrote not justify or make on e righteous.
Now for th enone carried over to teh new? We walk in them to show that we are now saved and have been made righteous by the blood of Jesus!