Clare73
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You're confusing me again. . .Romans 13:8-10 states it is fulfilled in (Christ's) law of love.
And so, we return to which law is being spoken of. It is now the law of Christ the apostles Paul speaks in Scriptures of the NT, that is fulfilled by loving one another.
But the NT does not seem to treat all the Mosaic law as a whole.The law of Moses could never be fulfilled only by loving our neighbors as ourselves, because without circumcision on the eighth day, the male would be cut off from the people.
Romans 13:8-10 specifically states which of the Decalogue the law of Christ fulfills. Christ's law does not fulfill the whole law.
Galatians 4:10 specifies which of the ceremonial law is being observed.
In neither of these cases, are the regulations called just "the law" and treated as a single unit.
Circumcision was necessary to enter the covenant of Abraham, to which the Mosaic covenant was simply a temporary addition (Galatians 3:19; Romans 5:20).The law of Christ is fulfilled by loving one another, because there is no outward circumcision to obey.
Circumcision was a sign (Genesis 17:11) of putting/cutting off the flesh (consecration to God)--as I see baptism to be in the new covenant (Colossians 2:11-12), which consecration was the condition of the Abrahamic covenant to be their God (Genesis 17:7), and which sign was then reiterated in the purification laws of Sinai because they were still under the Abrahamic covenant.
I'm not getting the connection between circumcision and love of neighbor here.
As well as many other handwritten ordinances and statutes and commandments in the law of Moses.
The law of Moses was only going to ever be fullfed by one person: the God of Israel that gave it to Moses: the Word made flesh.
We are not obedient to the 'Decalogue'. We are obedient only the law of Christ. The doctrine of Christ. The apostles' doctrine and rule of Christ, which they wrote down personally from Christ.
How about this:
NT teaching is found only in NT Scriptures. NT Scriptures are written only by the apostles.
If it is NT Scripture, it is therefore NT teaching, and the NT teaches the law of Christ, not the law of Moses.
I really like your unified view.In the Scriptures of the apostles, we cease reading of 'Moses' and the 'law' of Moses, except it is specifically written as such. Otherwise, our understanding ought always be reading of Christ and His law in NT Scriptures.
Even as we cease to read in NT Scriptures of the 'Jews' being the chosen people of God and seed of promise by Abraham, so we cease to be reading of the law of Moses as the 'law' of God taught in the NT scriptures.
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