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 Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:57 am
 There are many OT scriptures which are mind boggling to NT believers. Examples include the food laws and ceremonial laws. Of course many of them no longer directly apply to us. But what did these laws really mean to the people to whom they were given? And why were they given?
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:50 pm
Never been posted in and it's been awhile. Anyone wanna get the discussion going?
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:19 pm
Deuteronomy gives an outright reason; the commands were given for: Quote: Deuteronomy 10:12-13 (NIV) 12 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good? At its core, everything he commanded was for their benefit in some way. We can try and categorize them into "nutritional", "hygienic", "social", but they all brought blessings when followed, even the concept of eliminating evildoers from their midst. But some of these commands also have a prophetic element speaking of the reconciliation plan YHWH would carry-out through Jesus/Yeshua (i.e. sacrifices: unblemished lamb -> sinless Jesus)
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Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:04 pm
The Purpose Of The Law
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
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How little most people know about the Law, the Ten Commandments!
First, most people have a hazy idea that the Law was given to Adam; that it existed as long as the history of man. This, of course, is wrong, for in John 1:17 we read: “The law was given by Moses.” Moses lived some 2,500 years after Adam, about 1,500 years before Christ. So for about 2,500 years mankind lived without the Ten Commandments.
Second, most people suppose that the Law was given to mankind in general, while the fact is that it was given to Israel alone. It was a covenant made between God and Israel. Before giving it God said: “Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people” (Ex. 19:5). This is not to say that the Law does not affect all men, for, as the divine standard of righteousness it affects us all.
Third, most people think that the Law was given to help us to be good. Even some clergymen teach this, though the Bible itself states again and again that the Law was given to show us that we are guilty sinners and need a Savior. Note the following Scripture passages.
Rom. 3:19: “Now we know that what things soever the law sath, it saith to them that are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be brought in guilty before God.”
Rom. 3:20: “By the law is the knowledge of sin.”
Gal. 3:19: “Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions….”
Thus the Law can only condemn the sinner. But thank God, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree” (Gal. 3:13).
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:23 pm
Agree with everything real eyes realize said.
It's like when you teach a child to wash his hands before eating, if he is a rebellious child and sees no purpose for washing his hands he'll never understand why his parents think it's so important for him to wash his hands...and lets say he was brought up like that whether he liked it or not, then later as he grows older he is given the choice to continue doing or not.
He never understood the importance of washing his hands so he will stop doing once he is older.
Now, that doesn't mean his parents are to cast him aside for not following that rule, because even though he is a human slob and may/may not end up catching a disease.. ninja his parents still love him.
It's the same for us.
God has a set of rules for his children.
Although some us us cannot follow every rule, that doesn't mean we are automatically doomed as it would have been before.
God made those rules for us to live a better life, it is up to us to follow them and obey them.
Some of those rules are more important than others though...such as don't go playing on the street because you'll eventually get ran over, and if the child always brakes that rule it is more likely that he/she will end up being ran over by a car one day.
It's the same with our spiritual lives, if we continue breaking God's commands it is more likely we will end up in a spiritual death.
God is never going to make you do anything that is bad for you.
So all of Gods commandments are good, even those which we cannot understand.
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Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 6:42 pm
It is understood that The 10 commandments, moral laws, and judicial laws are still to be followed. Ceremonial laws do not apply to Christians.
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Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:20 pm
For the most part the OT laws are useless to Christians since the law doesn't save. This doesn't mean that there is no good in them at all or that they cannot be beneficial in some way, it doesn't save.
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 4:25 pm
I remember reading also that the law was given to the Jewish people to..make them different from anyone else. The law also points to Jesus Christ and shows us our sinful nature.
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