quietthinker
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Folk make lots and lots of religious words about the 10 C's zig zag because fundamentally they want an excuse to violate them instead of just acknowledging them and obeying them.For some reason I believe that is the route Sodom and Gomorrah took.
If moral laws do not exist then what remains is lawlessness.
There needs to be a foundation.
How can there be conviction of right or wrong if everything is covered under a blanket of grace.
We are told that God will not hold us innocent for knowing to do good and do evil.
How do we know what is good or evil with direction, rules or laws.
Your parents tell you don't lie, don't steal, don't cheat. These are moral laws which originate in the golden 10.
I don't understand how moral laws can not apply to Christians.
If we should make a mistake, or fall, or do the morally wrong thing,
we are not instantly condemned to death as was in the OT, when you broke the law you were immediately stoned without mercy.
We live under grace where we are given the opportunity for forgiveness if we confess our sins, or immorality.
Without a moral code to live by, we would become as Sodom and Gomorrah.
Look around, it's happening before our very eyes.
We don't need to carry a tablet written with these moral laws because they are already written in our hearts.
It doesn't mean we live without them, or they don't apply. On the contrary, they are embedded in our hearts and in our minds.
Grace is being able to say your sorry and receiving forgiveness. Not being condemned without mercy as it had been.
That's my 2 cents.
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The thing is, the bar of love is so much higher than the 10C's though these same folk make lotsa noises about love.
I do not commit adultery yet am unkind to my wife yet boast in my heart I have not committed adultery and so on.
Cognitive dissonance is rampant.....Jesus refers to it as hypocrisy.
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