Soyeong
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You are exemplifying the reason the letter kills.
When a person looks to the written law, they then turn away from the spoken one in their heart.
You cannot live by both.
Life comes through Faith. Death comes from the written law.
This does not mean the law is against Faith, it means the only way to obey God, the way He wants, is through Faith.
Faith will not take you down a path that is contrary to His law - but it will be contrary to the way people view the written law, even against what you in the flesh view the written law.
If you live by the written law you will die in your sin because it will be constantly working against you, but if you live by Faith you will put to death the sin in you because of the life that He provides in Faith.
To live by the Old Covenant is to reject The New One. You reject Christ when you live by the Mosaic law.
Do you think that God's goal in giving the Mosaic Law was to bring death to His children? In Deuteronomy 30:15-20, it is obedience to the law that brings life and a blessing while it is disobedience that brings death and a curse. The law against adultery written on stone does not command us to do something different when it is written our hearts, and the same goes for God's other laws. People incorrectly obeying the law is another issue, but there is difference between obeying the written law as intended by faith and obeying the law written our hearts by faith. Nowhere does the Bible say that if we live by the written law, then we will die in our sin, but rather it says obedience to it brings life, while it is refusing to live by the written law that leads to death. I have not suggested that we should live under the Mosaic Covenant, but rather I have spoken about how we should live under the New Covenant. Christ taught how to obey the Mosaic Law by word and by example, so it is completely absurd to think that we reject Christ by following what he called us to obey.
There are a lot of things that don’t make sense. It doesn’t make sense why God would but one single tree in the Garden, that they could not eat from, and tell them not to eat it.
It doesn’t make sense that the serpent was even allowed in the garden to tempt them.
Everything has a reason. The law had a purpose, it was a testimony - against us and for God.
We do not reject the Mosaic law, we reject it being our guide. It was never the guide of the people, the Ark was. They were supposed to keep watch of the Ark.
This was all to point to Christ. When you focus on the law you cannot focus on the fullness of Christ. When you focus on the law you are focusing on the power of sin.
God wants our attention on Him alone. He wants us to rest in Him.
The actions God takes invite us to ponder what they teach us about Him, but God taking actions that don't make sense to us is different from saying that we should hold interpretations of the Bible that don't make sense. Interpretations of the Bible that make sense and that are in accordance with the surrounding and broader context of Scripture should be preferred over ones that don't.
When parents give rules to their children, their goal is not so that they can have justification for getting to punish them, but rather their goal is to give them rules that are for their own good that will teach them how to rightly live and be a blessing to them, and this is that much more true of our Heavenly Father (Deuteronomy 6:24, 10:12-13).
God's righteous laws teach us about Christ's righteousness and how to testify about His righteousness, so when we do that in obedience them, we are experiencing who Christ is, or in other words we are growing in a relationship with him through gaining experiential knowledge of him. We are also testifying about what to believe to be true about who Christ is, or in other words, we are believing in him, and putting our faith in him as the model for how we should rightly live our lives. So all of God's laws point us to Christ and a relationship with him is the goal of the law (Romans 10:4). The Mosaic Law was given to testify about the fullness of Christ, so refusing to focus on it is refusing to focus on the fulness of Christ.
In Romans 7:7, it says that God's law is not sinful, therefore it is not the power of sin, but rather in Romans 7:12, it is the power of holiness, righteousness, and goodness, while it is the law of sin that is the power of sin. In Romans 7:25, Paul directly contrasted the Law of God with the law of sin.
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