Blaiyan on 08 February 2008
| Eomund said: CrashMan you are leaving out one very important thing. Those three things you just said are confronted and dealt with by the fulfillment of the old law by Christ. The New Testament is the fulfillment of all prophesies and laws from the Old Testament. The Old Law (10 Commandments) showed how absolute the rules of God were and that no man was able to meet God's standard of morality and purity. Jesus later clarified the law in two ways. He told the religious leaders of his day that if you even look lustfully at a woman, you have committed adultery with her in your heart, and that if you hate (the Hebrew word is probably a very strong word, along the lines of spite and wishing they were dead, etc.) your brother you have killed him in your heart. These new interpretations of the Old Law shows for sure that everyone falls short. The Old Law was only meant to show humanity how inadequate it is. But Jesus Christ fulfilled the Old Law and now we can fail in every way (except blaspheming the spirit, but I do not have an exact interpretation of that) and still be in good standing with God. This is made possible by the sacrifice of the only perfect man who did not fail in any way in meeting the Old Law. Jesus Christ the Son of God died and defeated the spirit of death by coming back from death. Now all who believe in Him can likewise defeat Death. The reason that Death has a hold of humanity is because we submitted to Death at the beginning through rebelling against God. Once man sinned and fell from God, we are under the foot of Death. This is why the perfect man was not conceived normally. He was born from a woman who was a virgin still. The sin nature of man is passed down from the father. Since Jesus was not the son of an earthly man, he was sinless when he was born and therefore could fulfill the Old Law. Now that the fulfillment of the Old Law has taken place we no longer live in the "Age of the Law" but we now live in the "Age of Grace." If someone sins they can be forgiven by God through the blood of Christ who was and is and will always be perfect. There are two Commandments that we are to live by under the New Law of Grace. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength," and "To love your neighbor as yourself." These two commands from God are straight from the mouth of God's Son, Jesus (the book of Matthew 22:37-40 -- 37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.") There is so much more framework I could lay out to backup my post, but in the in effort to not be long winded and preachy I will stop here. |
I just wanted to comment and say I really loved what you wrote.
