The law no longer has any place for us.
We must read different bibles? How do you know what SIN is when God's WORD says that SIN is breaking any one of God's 10 commandments?
NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES
JAMES 2:8-12
[8], If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
[9], But if ye have respect to persons, YOU COMMIT SIN, AND ARE CONVINCED OF THE LAW AS TRANSGRESSORS.
[10], For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
[11] For he that said, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, said also, DO NOT KILL. Now if thou commit NO ADULTERY, yet if thou KILL, YOU ARE BECOME A TRANSGRESSOR OF GOD'S LAW
Yep, James is pretty clear if we brake ANY of God's Law (10 commandments) then we are a TRANSGRESSOR of God's LAW and commit SIN. James quotes two of the 10 Commandments saying that if we break them we commit sin v9 that are summed up in the 2nd great commandments of LOVE to God and LOVE to our neighbour in v11. Maybe you missed that one?
ROMANS 7:7 [7], What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I HAD NOT KNOWN SIN, BUT BY THE LAW: for I had not known lust, EXCEPT THE LAW HAD SAID YOU SHALL NOT COVET.
Well here we have Paul in agreement with James and John also telling us that he did not know what sin was without God's 10 Commandments. SIN is breaking God's commandments and Paul uses the 10th commandment as an example of breaking any of God's LAW (10 commandments) = SIN (
Exodus 20:17)
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1 JOHN 3:4 [4] Whosoever commits SIN transgresses also the law: for SIN is the transgression of the law.
John is saying the same thing as James and Paul and states that if we TRANSGRESS God's LAW then we commit SIN because SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF GOD'S LAW. So it is very clear that SIN is breaking ANY of God's LAW (10 commandments). We will look at the chapter context John uses v15 of MURDER as an example of sin which is God's 6th Command of the 10.
Sin is indeed defined in God's WORD as breaking any of the 10 Commandments in both the OLD and NEW TESTAMENT scriptures.
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SIN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT BREAKING THE 10 COMMANDMENTS (Summarized)
God said in
Genesis 4:7 to Cain when he was angry because he did not worship God in his appointed way that by
doing this it was sin. Jesus say the same in
Matthew 15:3-9 that if we follow and teachings of men that break the commandments of God we are not following God. Mankind was destroyed by a flood
because of sin (
Genesis 6:5-7).
Sodom and Gomorrah was
destroyed because of sin (
Genesis 18:20). Jacob knew about sin when he complained to Laben when he left with his daughters (
Genesis 31:36).
When Potiphar’s wife came to Joseph with the aim of committing adultery, Joseph knew it was sin and protested saying how then can I do this great wickedness,
and sin against God? (
Genesis 39:9).
God said that if Israel was not to make a covenant with the other nations and
serve their god's it would be sin (
Exodus 23:33). When Moses was delayed on the Mount with God the children of ISRAEL made an Idol and worshipped it breaking God's 1st and 2nd commandment (
Exodus 20:3-5). Moses said to them after he returned, you have sinned a
great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; perhaps I shall make an atonement
for your sin (
Exodus 32:30;
Deuteronomy 9:16-18). Moses said to Aaron that by making an idol for the people to worship that it was a
great sin (
Exodus 32:21; 30). God would punish the children of Israel for their
sin of Idol worship (
Exodus 32:34).
God said to Moses in reference to breaking the 10 Commandments; Whosoever has
sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book (
Exodus 32:33).
God said that if Israel was not to make a covenant with the other nations and
serve their god's it would be sin (
Exodus 23:33). Joshua says stealing is sin (
Joshua 7:11). Achan knew when he was caught stealing that
he sinned (
Joshua 7:20).
When God's people forsake God to worship other God's, they also confess that
they had sinned in breaking God's commandments (
Judges 10:10;15). Samuel made atonement for God's people when they wanted to return to God confessing that they had
sinned after they worshipped other Gods breaking God's 1st and 2nd commandments (
1 Samuel 7:5; 12:10;
Exodus 20:2-5).
King Saul wanted to kill David, but Jonathon spoke good of David saying to him
no to sin against David by killing him (
1 Samuel 19:4). David cut the skirt of King Saul in the cave and said to him that he could have killed him if he wanted to but
did not sin against him by sparing his life (
1 Samuel 24:11). King Saul replied that in wanting to kill David he
had sinned (
1 Samuel 26:21).
When David became king he desired Bathsheba who was another man’s wife and organized for her husband Uriah the Hitite to be sent to the front line of battle to be killed. God sent Nathan to David and David confessed in doing this that
he had sinned in breaking God's 6th and 7th Commandment (
Exodus 20:13:14). David confessed that
he had sinned to breaking God's LAW (
1 Samuel 12:13).
Now we can also go through all the evil Kings of Israel that
sinned against God by following and
worshipping other Gods which is also defined as sin in God's WORD but there would be too many scriptures (
2 Kings 17:7). God testified that they served other Gods and idols sending them prophets to warn them of
their sins (
2 Kings 17:12-13; 16-17). We are also told that King Manasseh also broke God's 6th commandment and killed more innocent people then most others testifying that by doing this
he had sinned (
2 Kings 16:17). God continued to send prophets to warn his people of the
consequences of sin (
Nehemiah 9:30). God's people
continued in their sins forsaking God's LAW (10 commandments) and in doing so God left them and Israel were overthrown and led into captivity to the other nations because they departed from God serving other God's and idols. Nehemiah knew this and prayed to God confessing
their sins (
Nehemiah 1:6-9). God's people
continued to sin against God by worshipping other Gods despite the warning of Jeremiah (
Jeremiah 44:18-23). In despite of God's Word teaching that God's people had forsaken the 10 commandments and
sinned against God, going into captivity, God promised he would bring them back when they returned to him and heal them
from their sins of breaking his commandments (
Ezekiel 37:22-23).
Hosea testified by the Word of the Lord that God's people by making idols and worshipping other god's, lying, stealing, killing, committing adultery would receive the judgments of God because
they had sinned by departing from the 10 Commandments (
Hosea 4:1-19).
The word of the Lord came to Zephaniah saying that all those who continue in sin by worshipping other God's and breaking his commandments will be destroyed off the land because they
have sinned against God (
Zephaniah 1:2-17).
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Yep God’s WORD is very clear that sin is defined as breaking ANY of the 10 Commandments just as James, Paul and John all teach in the NEW TESTAMENT (
James 2:10-11;
Romans 7:7;
1 John 3:4;
Romans 3:20). All the above scriptures show by example, quoting individual commandments from the 10 Commandments that SIN is indeed also defined as breaking any of God's 10 Commandments.
If people try to keep the law in order to be acceptable to God at any time, it is no longer grace. "By grace you have been saved through faith, and not of yourself, but it is the gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8). "But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace" (Romans 11:6). "My grace is sufficient for you" (2 Corinthians 12:9). "The just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17). These Scriptures show very clearly that the Christian is not saved by observance to the law in any way. Furthermore, he does not grow in grace through any observance to the law either. If it is by following any laws, including the 10 Commandments, it cannot any longer be grace. If a person tries to keep the law even to the smallest extent, he is trying to work his way to Heaven, therefore, grace does not apply to him. He is trying to make a debtor out of God, that if he is a good boy and follows the rules, God will owe him a ticket to Heaven. But God owes us nothing. He never had to save us in the first place and could have left us to wallow in our hopelessness. So, everything we have in Christ is through the grace and mercy of God and nothing else. To say that a genuinely converted Christian can willfully and happily commit sin is nonsense because it is not in his new nature. But there is a battle between the flesh and the Spirit in him, and he depends on 1 John 1:9 to win the battle. All he has to do is to talk to God about it, and he is totally forgiven and cleansed. The promise of God is that what He doesn't like about us, He will change by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Strawman much? Where has it ever been posted that we are trying to keep God's LAW for salvation? If no one has said what your claiming why do you pretend that they have? If your argument is what no one is arguing about then you have no argument.
We are saved by GRACE through faith and not of ourselves it is a gift of God *
EPHESIANS 2:8. However, God's WORD also says, ALL those who CONTINUE in KNOWN UNREPENTANT SIN will not enter into the KINGDOM of HEAVEN *
HEBREWS 10:26-27 because they reject the gift of God's dear son *
ROMANS 6:23. OBEDIENCE to God's LAW is not how we are saved it is the FRUIT of God's work in us as we BELIEVE and FOLLOW his WORD. If our faith has no fruit it is dead *
JAMES 2:18-20; 26 and our tree will be cast down and thrown into the fire *
MATTHEW 3:10; 7:19-20; 13:49-50.
The purpose of God's LAW (10 Commandment) according to God's WORD is to give us the KNOWLEDGE of GOOD and EVIL; SIN and RIGHTEOUSNESS *ROMANS 3:20; ROMANS 7:7; 1 JOHN 3:4; PSALMS 119:172.
Sorry brother God's WORD disagrees with you.
Did you wish you answer the question from the OP now?
What is God's GRACE for?
How can you have GRACE in the NEW TESTAMENT without God's LAW when God's LAW leads to GRACE?
God's Sheep hear his Voice (the WORD)