You wrote, again, that none of what I wrote is true; on the other hand, I wrote that there are two "You shall not" sentences. I quoted God's Word. Wow, for you to write that what I wrote is not true - wow. What I wrote is true, and it is God's Word, and here it is: 2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 "You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. 5 "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
As posted ealier in reference to what you were posting was not true is shown in the claims you are making that on your interpretation of EXODUS 20:4 which when CONTEXT is added back into the scripture shows that EXODUS 20:4 when read in connection with EXODUS 20:3-6 is in reference to making and serving other Gods (Idols) as shown below.
EXODUS 20:3-6
[3], You shall have no other gods before me.
[4], You shall not make to you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
[5], You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
[6], And showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
When you add the context back in to EXODUS 20:4 with EXODUS 20:3-6 it does not say what you are claiming brother. Sorry brother God's WORD disagrees with you.
In verse 2, God identifies His audience as the Israelites that He brought out of Egypt. That's thousands of years before you were born.
And your point here is?????
At the beginning of verse 6 is the conjuction "but" that establishes grammatical dependency between verse 6 and the content of verse 5. God defined NO grammatical dependency between verese 2 to verse 3. God defined NO grammatical dependency between verese 3 to verse 4. God defined NO grammatical dependency of verse 4 based on verse 5, rather verse 5 gets it's "them" to be idols, but verse 4 is an indpendent sentence as well as verse 5 is an indpendent sentence each of which is a "You shall not" sentence; therefore, verse 4 is explicit, and verse 4 is God's Word. All of this is true. I have not added to nor subtracted from God's Word.
Is this creative writing for saying CONTEXT does not matter
? Seriously brother are you really trying to argue that CONTEXT does not matter in understanding scripture? Exodus 20 in verses 3, 4, 5 are talking about the same subject matter which is havinf no other gods v3; not making any graven images or any likeness in heaven and earth and the water under the earth v4; Continuing the same thought is expressed in the v5 "
THEM" where the same thought is being continued; v5 You shall not bow down to "
THEM" or "
SERVE THEM" for I am the LORD your God am a JEALOUS God. Now what is the "
THEM" and why would the LORD be "
JEALOUS"? EXODUS 20:3-5 are all the same
CONTEXT;
CONTENT and
TOPIC. The "
THEM" used in v5 and what the LORD is "JEALOUS" of is answered in v3-4. The "THEM" is making other gods and bowing down and serving them v3-5.
By leaving out the CONTEXT of EXODUS 20:4 as you quoted earlier has lead you to errors of interpretation of the scriptures. EXODUS 20:3-5 are the CONTEXT and SUBJECT MATTER. They are dependant one to another and v3-5 define the CONTEXT and SUBJECT MATTER of v4. These scriptures therefore are connected to each other as subject matter with v3 and v5 defining the CONTEXT of v4. Can you see your error here brother?
Moving on to another of your points, your thoughts are manifested by your words. Your compositions make statements. By way of your compositions, you make assertions. You ask who said that anyone is saved by keeping the law, but your words express a corollary when you make a statement like "According to God's WORD all those who CONTINUE in KNOWN UNREPENTANT SIN will not enter into the KINGDOM of HEAVEN" when the thread is about keeping the Law based on the 7th day sabbath as recorded in Exodus 20:8-11. Now, the assertion is visible, that you assert that not keeping the said 7th day sabbath is continuing in unrepentant sin. That sure sounds like advocating for keeping the Law to me.
Rubbish. I have never said ever and anywhere that we are saved by the works of the law. If I have never said such things why pretend that I have? We are saved by GRACE through faith and not of ourselves it is a gift of God *
EPHESIANS 2:8. 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.
According to God's WORD in the NEW COVENANT God's ETERNAL LAW (10 commandments) is the KNOWLEDGE of GOOD and EVIL; SIN and RIGHTEOUSNES *
ROMANS 3:20;
ROMANS 7:7;
1 JOHN 3:4;
PSALMS 119:172.
God's 4th commandment is one of God's 10 commandments that give us the KNOWLEDGE of what sin is when broken *
ROMANS 3:20. According to God's WORD if we break any one of God's 10 Commandments we stand guilty before God of SIN *
JAMES 2:10-11.
According to God's WORD 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 through love. 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.
It is JESUS that says all those who KNOWINGLY follow the teachings and traditions of men that break the commandments of God are not following God brother not me *
MATTHEW 15:3-9. Who then do we BELIEVE and FOLLOW God or men *
ROMANS 3:4. Yep I know who I believe. You provide your own words. My words are not my own but God's WORD. It is the Word of God that will be our judge come judgment day *
JOHN 12:47-48.
Now where is the scripture that says God’s 4th Commandment has now been abolished and we are now commanded to keep Sunday as a Holy day? There is no scripture is there? If there is no scriprture for this tradition why do you not believe God’s WORD?
Pressing on to the most important point, here is the Truth in accord with God's Word revealed in this
"Exclusively Scripture With Bible Citations Post" that Jesus said "the New Covenant" (Luke 22:20) and the Author of Hebrews wrote "When He said, 'A new [covenant],' He has made the first obsolete" (Hebrews 8:13). This shows how believers are bound to Jesus because He is God's Word. Not by works of man, rather by the Blood of Jesus! A Spirit-filled believer will have fruit commensurate with the words of Jesus, loving what Jesus loves and hating what Jesus hates!
As shown through the scriptures already is your understanding of what the OLD COVENANT was. You mix up the SHADOW laws from the MOSAIC BOOK of the OLD COVENANT *
EXODUS 24:7 with God's ETERNAL LAW (10 Commandments) in the NEW COVENANT that give us the KNOWLEDGE of what SIN is when broken *
ROMANS 3:20;
ROMANS 7:7;
1 JOHN 3:4. If you do not know what the OLD COVENANT is how can you know what the NEW COVENANT is that the OLD COVENANT pointed to?
As posted above and through out this thread we are ONLY saved by GRACE through faith in the Blood of JESUS and not of ourselves it is a gift of God *
EPHESIANS 2:8. 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.
No one has God's SPIRIT while KNOWINGLY rejecting his WORD and living a life of KNOWN UNREPENTANT SIN neither do they know God and need to be Born Again to LOVE * 1 JOHN 3:3-10; HEBREWS 8:10-12; ROMANS 13:8-10; ROMANS 3:31; 1 JOHN 2:3-4.
According to God's WORD in the NEW COVENANT God's ETERNAL LAW (10 commandments) is the KNOWLEDGE of GOOD and EVIL; SIN and RIGHTEOUSNES *
ROMANS 3:20;
ROMANS 7:7;
1 JOHN 3:4;
PSALMS 119:172.
God's 4th commandment is one of God's 10 commandments that give us the KNOWLEDGE of what sin is when broken *
ROMANS 3:20. According to God's WORD if we break any one of God's 10 Commandments we stand guilty before God of SIN *
JAMES 2:10-11.
According to God's WORD 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 through love. 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.
It is JESUS that says all those who KNOWINGLY follow the teachings and traditions of men that break the commandments of God are not following God brother not me *
MATTHEW 15:3-9. Who then do we BELIEVE and FOLLOW God or men *
ROMANS 3:4. Yep I know who I believe. You provide your own words. My words are not my own but God's WORD. It is the Word of God that will be our judge come judgment day *
JOHN 12:47-48.
Now where is the scripture that says God’s 4th Commandment has now been abolished and we are now commanded to keep Sunday as a Holy day? There is no scripture is there? If there is no scriprture for this tradition why do you not believe God’s WORD?
Sorry brother God's WORD does not teach lawlessness.
Only sent in love as a help to you
