Ex 20:7 "LOVE Me and KEEP My Commandments"
John 14:15 "LOVE Me and KEEP My Commandments"
1 John 5:2-3 "This IS the LOVE of God that we KEEP His Commandments"
There is no 10 in those Bible details. Details matter --
"Do not add to His words, or He will rebuke you and prove you a liar" (
Proverbs 30:6).
ALL the LAW and the commandments based on the TWO foundation commandments "LOVE God" Deut 6:5 and "Love your neighbor" Lev 18:18
Exactly.
Love is the
foundation, and the 10 commandments is the
old house that was built on that
foundation.
The
old house has now been removed and a
new house is now built on that same foundation of
love:
"For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one...by abolishing in His flesh the law with its commandments and regulations".."The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless (for the law made nothing perfect)...Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant." (Ephesians 2:14-15, Hebrews 7:18-22).
Yes, God's Word is Law, indeed the living Word is Law, and the living Word is
Spirit.
Adam was commanded by the living Word of the
Spirit, not the
letter.
And we, too, are commanded by the living Word of the
Spirit, not the
letter:
"He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant -- not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills...which was engraved in letters on stone" (
2 Corinthians 3:6-8).
SIN IS transgression of the LAW - 1 John 3:4... still
Sin is the transgression of the
righteous requirements of the law, not the
letter:
“If those who are not circumcised keep the righteous requirements of the law...who is not circumcised physically and yet fulfills the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written letter and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law.” -- (
Romans 2:26-29).
The
righteous requirements of the law, which is
love, can be
transgressed, even by those who obey the
written letter of the law - the 10 commandments.
The point is that just as all the Law and the prophets based on two commandments - so the TEN Commandments extend out to all moral areas of conduct as Christ points out in Matthew 5.
Let's look at the two commandments:
"'Love the Lord your God'...This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." (Matthew 22:37-40).
All that is commanded in the Prophets and in the Law of Moses, which includes the 10 commandments, are based on these 2 commandments to
love God and neighbor. Therefore, if we obey these 2 commandments to
love God and neighbor, we do not need the 10 commandments, because the 2 commandments
fulfills them all:
“Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law” (Romans 13:9-10).
“For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts” (
Romans 2:14-15).
Gentiles, who do not have the 10 commandments, do obey the
requirements of the law to
love their neighbor, even though they do not have the 10 commandments.
And basically - we are still talking about a Bible detail that even our own pro-Sunday scholars affirm. I.e. the obvious.
Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
Both you and the pro-Sunday scholars are in error.
Utter nonsense. You are making the case that if God sinned before He gave the law HE would be guilty because HE has no past or future. there is no text that says "if God knows it ... then you are responsible for it even if he does not act or speak " and we all know it.
I have no idea what you are trying to say here, but we know that Jesus is
"the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world." (Revelation 13:8).
Scriptures speak of Christ being crucified from the foundation of the world even though He was crucified many years later. This is because what God has determined beforehand is already in effect beforehand. This is why Abraham was a man of faith beforehand even though faith came later through the sacrifice of Christ:
“The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham...So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.” (Galatians 3:8-17).
Abraham was justified beforehand by a faith that came later through Christ, just as the whole world was condemned beforehand by a law that came later through the Jews.
By contrast - in real life we have
Genesis 26:5
5 because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws.”
There is no 10 in those Bible details. Details matter.
Abraham was Not "GOD Living outside of time" ... obviously.
But his justification by faith was outside of time. He was justified beforehand, before the time: “The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham” (Galatians 3:8-17).
A total misread of Galatians 3 makes it difficult for you to accept Genesis 26:5 or the statement about "the sin of Sodom" in Genesis 18 and the "sin of Cain" in Genesis 4.
Gen 18: 20 And the Lord said, “The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave.
"any ol excuse will do" will not work as the "substance" with which to oppose the Bible - and we both know it.
And the objective unbiased readers know it too.
I do accept the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom and Gomorrah sinned by transgressing the righteous requirement of the law to love God. Their perverted sexual expression was a perversion of the love God required. And they were condemned beforehand by the law that was later given through the Jews:
"Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God." (Romans 3:19-20).
Every mouth, the whole world, including Sodom and Gomorrah, is held accountable to God through the condemnation of the law.
"For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one Man the many will be made righteous. The law was added so that the trespass might increase." (Romans 5:19-20).
The trespass of the whole world, including Sodom and Gomorrah, was increased through the condemnation of the law. The true nature and extent of their sin was made evident through the condemnation of the law.
