Hello Soyeong, so nice to meet you here friend.
I have added some comments below to your post. However your post was very large so to make things easier I might organise my reply into a series of smaller posts for ease of reading. Ok let’s start with the first section of your post # 64.
Hello friend,
I probably should start by replying to your earlier posts, but there are some important points to make in this one.
Actually Christ death has everything to do with ending many of the ceremonial laws that pointed to a lot of the plan of salvation. This is what Colossians 2:14 is referring to when it says; “Blotting out (G1813; ἐξαλείφω; exaleiphō; ex-al-i'-fo; means to obliterate; erase; wipe away) the handwriting of ordinances which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way nailing it to the cross.”
What is the handwriting of ordinances that are to be erased and nailed to the cross?
The Greek words used here is handwriting G5498 χειρόγραφον; cheirographon; which means; hand written legal document which is combined with ordinance G1378 δόγμα dogma dog'-mah From the base of G1380; which means; civil, ceremonial or ecclesiastical law: - decree;
The Greek meaning of handwriting of ordinances in V14 is a hand written legal document or book of civil, ceremonial and ecclesiastical laws. These are the laws referred to in verse 14 that have been erased and are nailed to the cross.
Again, crosses were never uses as a means of disposing of outdated laws, but rather what was written on crosses were the charges against the person being crucified (Matthew 27:37), and this is what is being referred to as the handwriting of ordinances that are against us. In other words, they wrote the violations of the law that the person had committed as explanation for why they were being crucified, not the laws themselves, so they didn't have to legislate new laws every time someone was crucified. This fits perfectly with our sins or violations of God's Law been nailed to Messiah's cross and with him dying in our place to pay the penalty of our sins, but does not fit with him dying to free us to do what God has revealed to be sin. Titus 2:14 does not say that He gave himself to redeem us from the Law, but to redeem us from all Lawlessness.
Why were these ceremonial laws pointing to Jesus nailed to the cross?
Colossians 2:17; “Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.”
God’s Law (10 commandments and the ceremonial laws of Moses had completely different roles in the Old Covenant.
God's holy days are important foreshadows of what is to come that are extremely rich with teachings about God, God's plan of redemption, and what we will be doing during Messiah's reign. Paul was writing Colossians 2 to encourage them to keep obeying God's holy days and to not let any man keep them from obeying God.
) God’s Law (10 commandments) pointed out what sin was and the penalty of sin which is death. It was never a cure for sin in the Old Testament as well as in the New. It only gives a knowledge of what sin is and righteousness (right doing) (Rom 3:20; 1John 3:4; Rom 6:23; Ps 119:172).
(2) The laws of Moses was the second set of laws and included all the civil, ceremonial, and ecclesiastical laws. These laws could not tell you what sin was this was the job of God’s Law, however the laws of Moses were the prescriptive cure for sin in the Old Covenant. These laws included all the Levitical and ceremonial laws, sacrificial burnt offerings for sin, annual festivals and earthly sanctuary services for sin. These laws were the cure for sin so the sinner could be made right with God.
God's Law is inclusive of any law that God has ever commanded either directly or indirectly and it is always a sin to disobey any of God's commands, so you are creating a false distinction. The laws of Moses were commanded by God through Moses acting as a mediator, so they were not given by the authority of Moses, but by the authority of God, and are therefore also required. In Deuteronomy 8:6, it does not describe them as the ways of Moses, but as the ways of God. They are God's ways because they all teach us about Him and about how to reflect his attributes to the world. For example, the ceremonial laws are God's instructions for how to reflect His holiness. The blood of goats and bulls never took away sin (Hebrews 10:4), so the law of Moses were never given as a prescriptive cure for sin, but rather a relationship with Christ is the goal of the Law for righteousness for everyone who has faith (Romans 10:4), so it has only ever been through our intimate relationship with Christ that our sins are cleansed both in the OT and NT, and the Law teaches us how to grow in that relationship.
Many of the ceremonial laws of Moses where all prophetic in nature, teaching the plan of salvation which pointing to Jesus as the true lamb of God and our great high priest and His Work on our behalf in the Heavenly Sanctuary. (Leviticus 1; 3-12; 14-17; 22-23; Number 6-8; 15; 28-29; Deut 12; 33; Ex 25:8; John 1:29; 36; Rev 5:6; 1Cor 5:6-7; Heb 8:2-13; 9:1-28).
It was these ceremonial laws which included all the Levitical, ceremonial laws which included the animal sacrifices as well as many of the annual festivals which pointed to Jesus our Passover lamb, circumcision, many of the annual Jewish festivals along with our sins that where nailed to the cross because they all pointed to Jesus. (John 1:19, 1 Corinthians 5:6-7; Romans 2:28-29)
If you do not believe these laws have been nailed to the cross and pointed to Jesus as a Shadow you would be obliged by the ceremonial laws of Moses to do animal sacrificed for the forgiveness of sin. Do you now sacrifice animals for your forgiveness? If you do not then you must concede your statement cannot be true and is not biblical.
All of God's laws invite us to ponder why He commanded them because they were given to teach us about Him and how to reflect His attributes, so I completely agree that they point to Christ, and furthermore they still point to him because they are still extremely rich with teachings about him and are still important foreshadows of what is to come. However, if we have faith in God to guide us in how to rightly live, then at the end of our ponderings, we will still obey what He has commanded. Again, what was nailed to his cross were our sins or violations of the Law, not the Law itself.
is not a reference that we have to practice the ceremonial laws of Moses as these were nailed to the cross as shown above. 1 Peter 1:13-16 is a reference to Holiness. Any reference Leviticus is in relation to being forgiven and cleansed from sin by Jesus our true Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world (John 1:29). Old Testament references are to both (1.) God’s Law (10 commandments) that point out sin and (2). The ceremonial laws which pointed to the forgiveness and cleansing from sin. 1 Peter 1:13-16 is the fulfilment of these in Jesus. This is further references in 1 Peter 1: 17-23 that you left out which reads…
1 Peter 1:14-16 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
In these verses Peter told us to have a holy conduct and then directly quoted OT Scripture in regard to what it means to have a holy conduct. For example:
Leviticus 11:44-45 For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground. 45 For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”
So refraining from eating unclean animals is a way that God instructed for how to act in accordance with His eternal holiness. It should also be relatively straightforward that part of what it means to have a holy conduct involves keeping God's holy days. In 1 Peter 2:9-10, it says that we are part of a holy nation, so again we should therefore follow the instructions that God has given for how to live as a holy nation.
17, And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: 18, Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19, But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 20, Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, 21, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. 22, seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: 23, Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.
Holiness does not come through the ceremonial laws of the Old Covenant. These pointed to Jesus. Salvation from sin is Holiness and this only comes from Jesus through faith in His promises.
I completely agree. God's Law was given to reveal how to have a holy conduct, but not how to become holy. So no amount of doing things like refraining from eating unclean animals will ever cause someone who is not holy to become holy, but rather it is God alone who makes us holy and and because we have been made holy, we are therefore required to follow God's instructions for how to have a holy conduct. The same thing goes for God's righteousness. God's Law reveals how to practice or train in righteousness in accordance with God's righteousness, such as to help the poor, but no amount of doing things like helping the poor will ever cause someone who is not righteous to become righteous because the one and only way to become declared righteous is by faith, and by the same faith we are therefore required to train in righteousness (1 John 3:10, 2 Timothy 3:16-17).
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Romans 6:22
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Ephesians 4:24
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
You may need to rethink your interpretation of the scripture 1 Peter 1:13-16 that holiness comes from the ceremonial laws of Moses. The ceremonial laws of Moses were a shadow of the plan of salvation pointing to Jesus his new ministry in the Heavenly Sanctuary and the New Covenant (Hebrews 8; 9; 10; 1 Corinthians 5:6-7; John 1:29)
Hope this is helpful
In Christ Always!
So ceremonial laws are essentially God's instructructions to people that He has made holy for how to therefore do what is holy in accordance with His holiness. Christ live in perfect obedience to the Mosaic Law and set an example of how to obey it for his followers to follow.