quietthinker
Well-Known Member
Further confusion....not being able to differentiate between ceremonial laws, health laws, cultural laws......mixing it all up with the law of the Ten Commandments.......and for what purpose?..... isn't it to excuse obligation to the Ten? .....isn't the objective to mix it all in so as not to be able to see the forest for the trees?No one keeps the letter of the law (Galatians 6:13, Galatians 3:22, Romans 3:23).
If you can testify that you wear tzizit and tallit and tefilin; and/or blow a trumpet on every new moon; then I will believe that perhaps you are complicit in obeying the letter of the law; while there are some 609 more commandments in the OT that are not yet taken into account.
Do I deceive myself by the understanding that I am not saved through keeping the law? For it is a biblical understanding (see Galatians 2:16, Romans 3:20).
If anyone is going to be saved through keeping the law, they must keep it perfectly from conception into eternity (Galatians 3:10, James 2:10, Matthew 5:48).
But Paul wrote to us under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, that we are delivered from the law so that we are no longer bound by the letter but are obedient to the spirit of what is written (Romans 7:6).
I agree that this is according to the letter for the most part.
However, in certain cases (such as if I were told by the Lord to heal someone on the sabbath by telling them to take up their bed and walk; in which case I would be violating the letter of the sabbath), the spirit of the law supersedes the letter. It would be love to do what I mentioned in (); but it would also be a violation of the letter of the sabbath.
And Jesus is our example of this in John chapter 5.
Do you want to poo hoo the speed sign in the desert so you can violate your moral obligation of not coveting or remembering the Sabbath etc.......because it comes under the banner of Law?
Sort it out jbf and know that faith in Jesus is not a license to excuse your obligation to the 10.