What are your thoughts on these scriptures?

Clare73 · Jun 27, 2021

Clare73 said:
Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.
So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith.
Now that faith has come we are no longer under the supervision of the law.
--Galatians 3:23-25

Christ is the goal of the law in that he was to lead us to justification by faith, removing us from under the law--to put an end to the law's supervision of us, not to establish us in it.

Soyeong said:
Christ did not go around teaching people that the law has ended and that they needed to stop repenting, but just the opposite, so
what is said about what Jesus did in Galatians 3:23-25 should not be used against following what is recorded about what Christ did.

Which is precisely what you are doing in your failure to deal with the meaning of above Scriptures--setting what Jesus said regarding the New Covenant (Matthew 22:37-41) against what he did under the Old Covenant.
That is Judaizing the gospel which the NT anathametizes (Galatians 1:6-9), and a failure to rightly divide (cut straight, handle) the NT word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15).

Jesus was born, lived, preached and died under the Old Covenent.
What he did was obey the Old Covenant that he might mediate a New Covenant, which he revealed in what he said.

And what he said was the Decalogue is accomplished/fulfilled (Romans 13:8-10) in obedience to his two commandments (Matthew 22:37-41), in which two commandments he managed to enlarge the scope (love my neighbor) and raise the standard (as myself) of the ten (Decalogue).
In obeying Jesus' two commandments, one is thereby obeying the Decalogue, and is not "going back to live in sin"--your ridiculous straw man.

Soyeong · Jun 27, 2021

GallagherM said:
@Soyeong

Here is the only reason one can not live by the Law written on Stone: Self-righteousness.

If one lives by the Law written on stone rather than faith on Christ Jesus. They are establishing their own righteousness. The Law of God is good, it is pure, and it is something that no person in their right might would be able to say.

"I obey the Law of God" - because if they say that: And they fall short of one tittle of the Mosaic Law they have just failed the test completely.

The Pharisees, and Scribe spoken of in the bible would always try to blame Jesus Christ for something and would try to catch him slipping up. Though the spirit of God in Christ Jesus never slipped up. The Son of God beloved and well pleasing to the Father obeyed the Mosaic Law perfectly, unlike any normal person who tried to live by it to establish their own righteousness.

You can not mix new wine in old wineskins or else the wineskins will burst, and you have a problem. Only new wine goes into new wineskins. Which means that by faith on the Lord Jesus Christ, learning and being taught by Him reading the Gospels: being born again by the spirit inside of you. You will begin to appreciate the Law of God however you will not try to live your life based upon what it says.

Because if one does that: they are going to fail miserably from just failing in one area of the law a person is guilty of the whole Law. Thus Jesus Christ came to fulfill that law, that we live by the righteousness that He gives to us as believer.

That righteousness is by faith through grace that is a gift of God; which no one can boast about how well they do. Jesus Christ makes us in right standing with God by and through faith.

If you walk and grow in the spiritual knowledge of God and learning about Christ Jesus the new born again spirit inside of a believer will never sin if a person walks by the spirit.

Though however if a person is trying to walk by the flesh and perform their own work of establishing the Law in their life by a fleshly means they will fail. Because if one law is disobeyed you have missed all marks and failed again.

So thus a person is to walk by and through faith growing in the Knowledge of God and the Lord Jesus Christ; they will have appreciation of the Gods law, and delight in it however they will be walking by the spirit of Christ allowing him to do the works with-in them by faith in allowing the goodness of God to flow through them by their inner new creation, being born again by the spirit of Christ with-in them. (Galatians 2:20) Those who live by faith and walk by the spirit will not sin; however their flesh at some point in time will sin.

( Thankfully Jesus Christ has paid for our sins which makes us grateful unto God and the Lord Jesus Christ in which those times we mess or trials come we run to God and the Lord Jesus Christ to ask for help when we are in times of distress and in need of help )

Christians are not to mix Law and Faith. For the person will I believe can come to the belief they are better than others and they will have harsher difficulties when they can not perform and they constantly mess up causing spiritual death to the believer, and always in bondage.

Which is why Christ Jesus was sent to help us and to free us from bondage to the law of death, and sin. (Romans 8:2)

Again, God's law was never given as instructions for how to become self-righteous, but as instructions for how to testify about God's righteousness. Trying to establish our own righteousness by obeying the law has always been a fundamental misunderstanding of its goal. In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the law, so that is the way to live by faith in Christ, and my last post listed many others verses that associate living by faith with living in obedience to God. In Deuteronomy 30:11-20, it says that God's law is not too difficult to obey and that obedience brings life and a blessing while disobedience brings death and a curse, so choose life! So there are countless people who have obeyed it and it was presented as a possibility and as a choice, not as the need for perfect obedience. In James 2:1-11, he was speaking to people who had already sinned by showing favoritism, so he was not telling them that they needed perfect obedience because that would have already been to late, and he was not trying to discourage them from obeying the law, but rather he was encouraging them to repent and to do a better job of obeying God's law more consistently. You speak about having faith, when when it comes to God's law, you don't think that God can be trusted, which is the opposite of having faith. If God can be trusted, then so can His law (Psalms 19:7).

In regard to the parable of the wineskins, Jesus gave that parable in response to a question about why his disciples weren't fasting, which has absolutely nothing to do with what you are trying to make that parable say. God can be trusted to set us up for success and to give us laws for our own good in order to bless us (Deuteronomy 6:24, 10:12-13), not set us up for failure and to lead us astray with the goal of cursing us.

Jesus fulfilled the law by teaching us how to obey it and that his how to live by the righteousness that he gives us. In Titus 2:11-14, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so obeying God's laws for how to do that through faith is itself the content of God's gift of salvation. God's law spiritual (Romans 7:14), while walking in the flesh is always in disobedience to God's law, such as in Romans 8:4-7, where those who walk in the Spirit are contrasted with those who have minds set on the flesh who refuse to submit to God's law. Likewise, in Galatians 5:19-22, everything listed as works of the flesh that are against the Spirit are also against God's law while all of the fruits of the Spirit are in accordance with it. In Ezekiel 36:26-27, the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey God's law.

God's laws are His instructions for how to grow in knowledge of Him and of Christ. In John 17:3, eternal life is knowing God and Jesus, and in Matthew 19:17, the way to enter eternal life is by obeying God's commandments. In 1 John 2:4, those who say that they know Christ, but don't obey his commands are liars and the truth is not in them, and in 1 John 3:4-6, sin is the transgression of God's law and those who continue to sin have neither seen nor know him. In Matthew 7:23, Jesus said that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so again God's laws are instructions for how to know Jesus.

In Romans 7:25-8:2, Paul contrasted the Law of God with the law of sin and death, so they are opposites, and Christ set us free from the law of sin and death so that we can be free to obey the Law of God.

GallagherM · Jun 27, 2021

Okay thank you for sharing your view point of what you see in the text. Just hold on to the Lord Jesus Christ, that is all I have to say. @Soyeong

Soyeong · Jun 27, 2021

GallagherM said:
Believe how you are going to believe @Soyeong.

I would continue to check the bible and look and read and see what Christ Jesus had said and taught. I believe that Christ Jesus said he came to fulfill the Law of Moses. So because of that we live by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; and His completion of fulfillment is completed with-in the believer being born again by the spirit of God.

We are only saved by grace through faith which is a gift from God; and no one can boast about what they themselves do.

Jesus Christ is our righteousness; not the Law of Moses which is good do not get me wrong; it is pure and holy. But let me suggest to you this part of scripture that you may need to hear.

I do not believe what just anyone up and tells me when it comes to the bible.
I check the word of God and see what God has set forth as the truth.

James 2:10
For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

For whoever keeps the entire law, and yet stumbles at one point, is guilty of breaking it all.

for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one point, he hath become guilty of all;

I agree that Jesus fulfilled the law and that he did that by teaching us how to obey it by word and by example. In Psalms 119:29, David wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and to choose the way of faithfulness, so this has always been the way of salvation by grace through faith. In Genesis 6:8-9, Noah found grace in the eyes of God and was a righteous man, so God was gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law and he was righteous because he obeyed through faith. Jesus expressed His righteousness by living in obedience to the Mosaic Law, so that is also how we are to live when he is our righteousness. So if you break any law and become a lawbreaker, then you need to repent and to return to obedience, which is precisely what he was encouraging them to do in James 2:10.

Colossians 2:14

having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

He ·canceled [wiped out; erased] the ·record [certificate] of debt, ·which listed all the rules we failed to follow [L with its decrees that were against us; C the record of sins revealed through the OT law; Eph. 2:15]. He ·took it away [set it aside; destroyed it] and nailed it to the cross.

Colossians 2:14 is not speaking about any laws being nailed to the cross.

1.) You shall not commit murder.

2.) This person has been found guilty of murder.

The first is an example of a law that is for our own good while the second is an example of a handwritten ordinance that was against someone that was nailed to their cross in order to announce why they were being executed. In Matthew 27:37, it says that they put the charge that was against Jesus over his head, so what was nailed to people's crosses was not the laws themselves, but the charge that was against them. This serves as a perfect analogy for the list of our violations of God's law being nailed to Christ's cross and with him dying in our place to pay the penalty for our sins, but has nothing to do with ending any of God's laws, especially because they are all eternal (Psalms 119:160). In Titus 2:14, it does not say that Jesus gave himself to end any laws, but in order to redeem us from all lawlessness, so saying that there were any laws nailed to the cross undermines what he accomplished on the cross. The Greek word "dogma" means "edict, ordinance, or decree" and is never used by the Bible to refer to God's law.

Likewise, Ephesians 2:15 is not speaking about any of God's laws. God did not make any mistakes when He gave the law, so He had no need to abolish His own laws. God did not give any laws for the purpose of creating a dividing wall of hostility, but rather His laws instructs us to love our neighbor as ourselves. In Matthew 5:17-19, Jesus specifically said that he came not to abolish the law and warned those who would relax the least part of it or teach others to do the same, so by interpreting these verses as saying that Jesus abolish the law, you are calling him a liar and disregarding his warning.

Galatians 3:24

Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith.

Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, that we may be justified by faith.

so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,

Someone who disregarded everything that their tutor taught them after they left would be missing the whole point of a tutor. The law leads us to Christ because everything in it teaches us how to have a relationship with him based on faith, but does not lead us to him so that we can reject everything he taught. To say that God is righteous is to say that He does what is righteous, so when God declares us to be righteous by grace through faith, He is also declaring us to be someone who expresses His righteousness through our actions in obedience to His instructions for how to do that found in His law.

Soyeong · Jun 27, 2021

Clare73 said:
Which is precisely what you are doing in your failure to deal with the meaning of above Scriptures--setting what Jesus said regarding the New Covenant (Matthew 22:37-41) against what he did under the Old Covenant.
That is Judaizing the gospel which the NT anathametizes (Galatians 1:6-9), and a failure to rightly divide (cut straight, handle) the NT word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15).

Jesus was born, lived, preached and died under the Old Covenent.
What he did was obey the Old Covenant that he might mediate a New Covenant, which he revealed in what he said.

And what he said was the Decalogue is accomplished/fulfilled (Romans 13:8-10) in obedience to his two commandments (Matthew 22:37-41), in which two commandments he managed to enlarge the scope (love my neighbor) and raise the standard (as myself) of the ten (Decalogue).
In obeying Jesus' two commandments, one is thereby obeying the Decalogue, and is not "going back to live in sin"--your ridiculous straw man.

Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, and the Mosaic Law was how his audience knew what sin is, so repenting from our disobedience to it is an integral part of the Gospel message, which means that you are blatantly mishandling Galatians 1:6-9 and are accusing me of what you are guilty of doing. Likewise, 2 Timothy 2:15 was never intended to be used against those who oppose you for taking a scissors to the parts of the word of truth that you don't like. Jesus set a sinless example of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law and did not hypocritically preach something other than what he practiced, so he taught how to obey it both by word and by example.

The Mosaic Law contains 600+ laws, and in Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus was asked which one them was the greatest and he responded by giving the greatest two and by saying all of the Law and the Prophets hang on them everything else is what you are trying to insert into this poor passage that you keep abusing when it hasn't don't anything to you. The greatest two commandments have always been the greatest two commandments, so Jesus was not enlarging the scope of them. The scope of a set of 600+ laws that include the greatest two commandments can't be larger than the set itself. That continues to be completely illogical. If you think that there is a law that you are free to transgress because you only need to obey the greatest two commandments, then you are going back to living in sin.

GallagherM · Jun 27, 2021

Thank you for expounding even further and I understand @Soyeong

A Christian believer living by the spirit and seeking God in spirit and in truth, and looking and reading the bible will by and through faith live according the spirit of Christ with-in them.

The thing is depending on where the mind is if it is on the fleshly things of the world or on the things of the heavenly and focused on heavenly things.

As we know (we have all broken the law but the law is good) the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life are all in tuned with the world and what it gives however when it comes to living with the spirit you realize that it produces Love that reacts as :

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

And if we live by faith and if we are in Christ Jesus. The Law will be fulfilled with-in Him through us. Then by faith as believers causing us to Love God, and to Love others with-in our heart by and through the spirit and that is all I been trying to say.

Praise be to God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

(Am done speaking on the subject now; thank you for you time.)

Soyeong · Jun 27, 2021

GallagherM said:
Thank you for expounding even further and I understand @Soyeong

A Christian believer living by the spirit and seeking God in spirit and in truth, and looking and reading the bible will by and through faith live according the spirit of Christ with-in them.

The thing is depending on where the mind is if it is on the fleshly things of the world or on the things of the heavenly and focused on heavenly things.

As we know (we have all broken the law but the law is good) the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life are all in tuned with the world and what it gives however when it comes to living with the spirit you realize that it produces Love that reacts as :

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

And if we live by faith are if we are in Christ Jesus. The Law will be fulfilled with-in Him through us. Then by faith as believers causing us to Love God, and to Love others with-in our heart by and through the spirit and that is all I been trying to say.

Praise be to God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Bible often uses the same terms to describe the nature of God as it does to describe the nature of God's law, which is because it is God's instructions for how to testify about His nature, such as with it being holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12), or with justice, mercy, and faithfulness being weightier matters of the law (Matthew 23:23). Likewise, God's ways are the ways that He expresses aspects of His nature, and there are many verses that describe the Mosaic Law as being instructions for how to walk in God's ways, such as Deuteronomy 10:12-13, Isaiah 2:2-3, Joshua 22:5, Psalms 103:7, and many others. So the fruits of the Spirit are all aspects of God's nature that the Mosaic Law was given to teach us how to express. The Mosaic Law was given by God and the Spirit is God, so it is straightforwardly the Law of the Spirit and the Spirit is only given to those who obey God (Acts 5:32).

God's nature is truth, so the Mosaic Law is truth because it is God's instructions for how to express His nature (Psalms 119:142). Likewise, Jesus is the exact expression of God's nature (Hebrews 1:3), so he is the same truth made flesh and he showed the nature of the Father through his works in sinless obedience to the Mosaic Law, which is why he could say everything that he did in John 14:6-11. In Ezekiel 36:26-27, the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey the Mosaic Law, in John 16:13, the Spirit has the role of leading us in truth, and again the Mosaic Law is truth. In John 8:31-36, it is sin in transgression of the Mosaic Law that puts us in bondage while it is the truth that sets us free. In John 17:17, God’s word is truth, and the Mosaic Law is God’s word. In 2 Timothy 3:8, those who oppose the truth also oppose Moses, being of corrupted minds, and disqualified in regard to the faith.

If you agree that if we life by faith and if we live in Christ, then the law will be fulfilled in Him through us, then you should see faith and obedience to God's law as going hand in hand. There are many verses is both the OT and the NT that associate our love for God with our obedience to His law, so again if you agree that by faith as believers causing us to love God, then you should again agree that faith and obedience to God's law go hand in hand.

GallagherM · Jun 27, 2021

This is the last comment I will say to you @Soyeong

Ultimately it is about faith in God, and the Lord Jesus Christ and unconditional love for God, and for mankind.

May the Lord Jesus Christ be with you and your spirit, the love of God, and the fellowship of the holy spirit.

Take care, sir.

OldWiseGuy · Jun 28, 2021

The Law was given to Israel only. Something to ponder. Was Israel commanded to keep the Law during their captivity and/or dispersion, when they had been destroyed as a nation, or were a vassal of Rome? How would this have been possible?

Clare73 · Jun 28, 2021

Soyeong said:
Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, and the Mosaic Law was how his audience knew what sin is, so repenting from our disobedience to it is an integral part of the Gospel message, which means that you are blatantly mishandling Galatians 1:6-9 and are accusing me of what you are guilty of doing. Likewise, 2 Timothy 2:15 was never intended to be used against those who oppose you for taking a scissors to the parts of the word of truth that you don't like. Jesus set a sinless example of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law and did not hypocritically preach something other than what he practiced, so he taught how to obey it both by word and by example.

The Mosaic Law contains 600+ laws,

Where do I find 600+ laws in Scripture?

and in Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus was asked which one them was the greatest and he responded by giving the greatest two and by saying all of the Law and the Prophets hang on them everything else is what you are trying to insert into this poor passage that you keep abusing when it hasn't don't anything to you. The greatest two commandments have always been the greatest two commandments, so Jesus was not enlarging the scope of them. The scope of a set of 600+ laws that include the greatest two commandments can't be larger than the set itself. That continues to be completely illogical. If you think that there is a law that you are free to transgress because you only need to obey the greatest two commandments, then you are going back to living in sin.

Non-responsive to Galatians 3:23-25.

Sidon · Jul 7, 2021

GallagherM said:
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

the law and commandments can't give you righteousness.
this is why God said He "found fault" with them.
they are in fact a Holy Mirror that shows each of us our own unrighteous., with this purpose being to bring us to the ONE who is Himself Eternal Righteousness.

When we are born again, we are birthed into WHERE Righteousness exists, and we become the same by this holy birth.
The born again now exist as "ONE with GOD", "In Christ', and in them, is Righteousness.
This makes us Spiritually the same, and keeps us the same as "made righteous".

Soyeong · Jul 8, 2021

Sidon said:
the law and commandments can't give you righteousness.
this is why God said He "found fault" with them.
they are in fact a Holy Mirror that shows each of us our own unrighteous., with this purpose being to bring us to the ONE who is Himself Eternal Righteousness.

When we are born again, we are birthed into WHERE Righteousness exists, and we become the same by this holy birth.
The born again now exist as "ONE with GOD", "In Christ', and in them, is Righteousness.
This makes us Spiritually the same, and keeps us the same as "made righteous".

God's law was never given for the purpose of giving us righteousness, so that is an intention, not a fault with the law. Nowhere does the Bible say that God found fault with the law because it can't give us righteousness. In Hebrews 8:6-10, it says that God found fault with the covenant because the people did not keep it. This is why God created a New Covenant where He would put His law in our minds and write it on our hearts so that we will keep it. Nowhere does the Bible say that law was given as a Holy Mirror that shows each of us our own unrighteousness. The law brings us to Christ because everything in it testifies about how to know Him. According to 1 John 3:4-10, those who do not practice righteousness in obedience to God's law are not born again. Likewise, in 1 John 2:6, those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked, and he walked in obedience to God's law. Jesus expressed his righteousness by living in obedience to God's law, so when we are made righteous, we are also made into someone to expresses Christ's righteousness by living in obedience to God's law.

Soyeong · Jul 8, 2021

Clare73 said:
Where do I find 600+ laws in Scripture?

In the books of Moses.

Non-responsive to Galatians 3:23-25.

Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers how to obey the Mosaic Law by word and by example, so Galatians 3:23-25 should not be interpreted as speaking against following Christ.

Soyeong · Jul 8, 2021

OldWiseGuy said:
The Law was given to Israel only. Something to ponder. Was Israel commanded to keep the Law during their captivity and/or dispersion, when they had been destroyed as a nation, or were a vassal of Rome? How would this have been possible?

While the Mosaic Law was given to Israel only, it was never intended for Israel only because it was given to equip Israel to fulfill the promise made to Abraham to be a light and a blessing to the nations by teaching the nations to obey it. The Israelites were given laws that had the condition "when you enter the land" while they were still wandering the wilderness for 40 years, so there is nothing wrong with not following a law that can't currently be followed, but that doesn't mean that those laws shouldn't be followed by faith when we are able to follow them.

Sidon · Jul 9, 2021

Soyeong said:
Nowhere does the Bible say that God found fault with the law because it can't give us righteousness. .

God found fault with the old covenant.
In the old covenant you find the law and commandments, which cannot make you rightesous.
So, for this reason, God created the new covenant, that does.
The new covenant is the blood of Jesus.

OldWiseGuy · Jul 9, 2021

Soyeong said:
While the Mosaic Law was given to Israel only, it was never intended for Israel only because it was given to equip Israel to fulfill the promise made to Abraham to be a light and a blessing to the nations by teaching the nations to obey it. The Israelites were given laws that had the condition "when you enter the land" while they were still wandering the wilderness for 40 years, so there is nothing wrong with not following a law that can't currently be followed, but that doesn't mean that those laws shouldn't be followed by faith when we are able to follow them.

God's Law was divided between commandments, judgments, statutes, and ordinances, many of which are no longer applicable today. There is also the 'hidden law' contained in the proverbs. We need an updated version.

Clare73 · Jul 9, 2021

Soyeong said:
God's law was never given for the purpose of giving us righteousness, so that is an intention, not a fault with the law. Nowhere does the Bible say that God found fault with the law because it can't give us righteousness. In Hebrews 8:6-10, it says that God found fault with the covenant because the people did not keep it. This is why God created a New Covenant where He would put His law in our minds and write it on our hearts so that we will keep it. Nowhere does the Bible say that law was given as a Holy Mirror that shows each of us our own unrighteousness.

Are you sure about that?

Through the law we become conscious of sin. (Romans 3:20)

The law was added so that the trespass might increase. (Romans 5:20)

I would not have known what sin was except through the law. . .apart from the law, sin is dead. (Romans 7:7-8)

The law brings us to Christ because everything in it testifies about how to know Him.

The law brings us to Christ because everything in it testifies to our helpless estate; i.e., "All who rely on observing the law are under a curse." (Galatians 3:10).

There is no need to improve on the NT.

Clare73 · Jul 9, 2021

Soyeong said:
In the books of Moses.

No 600+ laws in my Bible.

Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers how to obey the Mosaic Law

Indeed. . .he summed it all up in his two laws of Matthew 22:37-40, and his new law of
John 13:34, which are the fulfillment of the Decagloue (Romans 13:8-10; Galatians 5:14).

Clare73 · Jul 9, 2021

Soyeong said:
While the Mosaic Law was given to Israel only, it was never intended for Israel only because it was given to equip Israel to fulfill the promise made to Abraham to be a light and a blessing to the nations

The law was not given for a blessing to the nations.

Soyeong · Jul 9, 2021

Sidon said:
God found fault with the old covenant.
In the old covenant you find the law and commandments, which cannot make you rightesous.
So, for this reason, God created the new covenant, that does.
The new covenant is the blood of Jesus.

Hebrews 8:7-10 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 9 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

While these verses say that God found fait with the first covenant, it does not say that God found fault in His side of the covenant with His law or with the fact that it was not given for the purpose of making us righteous, but rather it says that God says that God found fault with the people for not continuing in His covenant, so God would make a new Covenant where he would put His laws in our minds and write them on our hearts. So God created a the New Covenant so that this time we would obey His law.

What are your thoughts on these scriptures?

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