When I first looked at the verse I thought Jay P. Greene Jr. had written the stuff about the light bulb. you didn't distinguish between his quote and your thought.
Jay P. Greene's rendition of 2Cor3:7-11
7 But if the ministry of death having been engraved in letters in stone was with glory, so as that the sons of Israel could not gaze into "the face of Moses" because of the glory of his face, which was to cease, Ex. 34:34
8 how much rather the ministry of the Spirit will be in glory!
9 For if the ministry of condemnation was glory, much rather the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory.
10 For even that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, because of the surpassing glory.
11 For if the thing done away was through glory, much rather the thing remaining is in glory.
Nice try, but he didn't come close to writing what you think. What does "done away" mean to you?
What I was addressing was your mistake - you had incorrectly attributed the 10C as the subject which had a fading glory. I did not mean that the ministry of death was not put away. I prefer "put away" because "done away" in English has a negative connotation, but Paul makes it clear in Romans 7 that he did not perceive the 10C as a negative thing.
"Ministry" means "to give a service". The service of the 10C was to make you aware of death as a result of sin. That's its glory - revealing how utterly hopeless we are. But, once the Holy Spirit comes in, it testifies that you are now dead to self and alive in Christ; the Spirit's service is to constantly illumine your mind to the life in Christ. The ministry of the 10C stops its function because it is now done.
"That's why we need no longer obey the 10C!" You misunderstand if this is what you take from it. If the Holy Spirit is ministering in your mind, "needing to obey" would be totally out of your mind because "life" would become the only focus in your mind. "Life" cannot and will not lead you at any point outside of obedience to the law of God. It's like how it's impossible to drive in a crooked path if you are truly driving in a parallel line within the lane of a straight road.
The law of God is not the faded 10 commandments, it is the law of love which the 10 are not. The 10 were about duty, there isn't any indication that they were love laws. Love laws are found in the book of the law which was written by the hand of Moses. Jesus gave His followers a new command to love other as he has loved us.
Paul wrote that love is the
summary of the law.
[Romans 13:9] For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are
summed up in this word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
As for the definition of how Paul used the phrase "law of God":
[Romans 7:7] What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said,
"You shall not covet."
[Romans 7:14] For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
Right now, you may ask "but this just says 'law', it isn't about 'law of God'" And that's where context comes in.
[Romans 7:16] Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.
[Romans 7:18] For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out
[Romans 7:22] For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
Paul used "law of God" to mean the 10C.
I can see where you believe the remainder of Christianity does not have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. You take the writings of your false prophet and believe everything she wrote (brainwashing) so that you have to try to distort scripture to comply with her.
Dude, you don't even know the history. When she first heard the Bible study by Joseph Bates on the Sabbath, she resisted, thinking it was a Jewish custom.
The Bible study came before the vision. She was convinced of it
after the vision God gave her about the Sabbath. We don't trace our belief about the Sabbath to her vision, we trace it to the Seventh day Baptists.
I do not believe others in Christendom outside the Seventh-day Adventist movement are devoid of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The Ethiopian Philip came across clearly only had a Bible study about Isaiah's prophecy, yet he got treated to Philip being teleported away. Peter hadn't talked much to Cornelius when the baptism of the Holy Spirit came upon Cornelius' household. Being 100% theologically correct is not the pre-requisite of having the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Rather, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit chooses when and how certain theological truths are allowed to be grasped and understood.
If the Holy Spirit determines that it's not the right time or method, it is 100% impossible to just "get it". That's why online debates are ineffectual if the Holy Spirit is not guiding both or if the Holy Spirit determines it's not the right timing or mode yet. The only thing that is always effectual is: Does what I do bring glory to God? Will He be pleased in what I do?
For me, my conscience is clear because I am following what He's said before in Isaiah 56:6-7. I take delight in His Sabbath. I take delight in His law because I see righteousness in it; I see His character of love in the 10 Commandments.