Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.
Whether you reply or not does not concern me Jason. Concerning your quote from the beatitudes. A minister said the beatitudes hold to a standard it is impossible for man to achieve. As you have admitted you faqil that standard
So there is no misunderstanding as top my previous post to you. The only Christians who can truly live as God wants them to are those who die to a law of righteousness. That means the whole law for your view is not written in scripture.
Irrelevant. The old covenant was never designed to get a person into heaven. The deal in the old covenant was that Jews could live in the promised land. The point is that the old covenant involved obedience, therefore it was not specific to the new covenant, not novel, and therefore not really what you would call core.
This prophecy in Jeremiah 31 is not about the New Covenant in the NT, but is about the New Covenant we will have after the Resurrection. We know this because of verse 34, where no one needs to be taught about God. Today that is not true, many need to be taught about God.
Verse 34 refers specifically to Israel when they all accept Christ as their saviour, at a time in the future
If you read the first fourteen verses of Hebrew 10 it concerns Christ dying for sins and animal sacrifices no longer being necessary. Straight after this in verse 15 it states:
Although the final fruition of God's plan of salvation was not realized in the Old Covenant, there were saints in the Old Covenant who were justified by faith, regenerated spiritually, had God living within them and were saved by grace thru the Messiah. It is just that the OT saint could not be made as perfect as the NT saint because the New Covenant is based exclusively on loving God and loving others (Whereas the OT saint was sent out to war against the enemies of Israel, etc.). In addition, the OT saint also had to obey certain ordinances or ceremonial laws (like circumcision and the Sabbaths) as a part of their faith in God, too. However, these ordinances are nailed to the cross for the believer under the New Covenant today, though; This applies both to the believing Jew and the Gentile.
All it means is that you assimilate it into your conscience. I don't believe that no one did this until the New Covenant. It has more to do with learning the Law as a child, so that it becomes more of a reflex it's so ingrained.
If the law I on your heart you in your heart want to obey it. God told Moses the Israelites were a stiff necked heathen people. Most of the time they did not want to obey. The law was not placed in their hearts under the old covenant. Their history was most of the tine rebellion, getting into trouble, crying out to God for help, he saved them then it was back to rebelling. All nations and people would naturally speaking be as they were under the old covenant. In Ezekiel 36:26&27 we see God was going to do something very different from what happened under the old covenant. He would remove the heart of stone and replace them with hearts of flesh. He would put his spirit I them and cause them to obey his laws. A mirror image of Jeremiah 31:33&34, heb10:16&17
I personally think that those under the Old Covenant were FULLY made perfect just as those under the New Covenant. This is because Christ's sacrifice worked backwards in time as well as forwards.
Wanting to disobey, and knowing something is a sin are two different things. I know lying is a sin, but I still want to lie. IOW the law is written on my heart, but God still has a work to do in me.
