Rule of Law? What about ye are not under the law, but under grace, if led of the Spirit?

Question

I keep hearing 'rule of law' among christian nations.
Is 'Rule of Law' our problem, rather than the solution?

Have we not learned law is corruptible, but grace incorruptible?
Have we not learned law and grace are "contrary" things;
And contrary things only mix to make an oxyMORON?
Hence biblical conclusion: Grace with you all. Amen.

Many Christians say: just forgiven, not perfect.
Bible says: not just forgiven, but made perfect;
And perfected by "Christ": "the end of the law".

Many Christians say we need law to know sin;
and go about law imputing sin, for the hell of it.
Bible says law imputes sin, which imputes death;
So, to have eternal life, make law dead testator.
For all perish by using of ordinances: Col 2:20-22.

Not to mention evidence makes it "evident"
no man justified by the law in God's sight.

Many Christians say law leads them to Christ.
Bible says the law leads them to destruction;
as if a schoolmaster that fails every student.

Your comments

Answer 1

You are correct. The law is meant to slay everyone.

The law is not a friendly guide...it is death to all.

We are not able to obey...therefore the consequences is death.

Only in Christ are we free from the law....Yet, we are not free to sin.

Answer 2

We might of not known sin before because we were "under the law" in other means "in bondage to sin". Another meaning could be too is a person that doesn't like to abide by the law but does because they think it's going to save them. No law has saved men; it just points out sin. We're saved by grace, abiding willingly in His Law. ROM.1:16-18; 2:12-29; GAL.3:11-29; HEB.2:15; 7:16-19,22; 1JOHN 2:1-6). Yes, when you're led by the spirit--you will do what is commanded of you.

Why do people always site COLOSSIANS & EPHESIANS to say the "law is done away with" when the Bible doesn't say that!

Eph.2:15 talks about something completely different; it talks about the "law contained in ordinances"---yes, those were done away with; but not the "Law of God".
Here's what Col.2:15 & Eph.2:15 really talk about.
It seems that most believe that these two texts are saying that the Sabbath and/or Sabbath Feasts are done away with; let me ask you a question; who wrote these books; wasn't it Paul? Paul kept the Sabbath (Acts 17:2) & the Sabbath Feasts (Rom.5:11) like Jesus; then these texts must not be talking about that, when the Bible says to follow Jesus(Col.2:6) and the Apostles(Eph.2:20). If you believe the Bible is inspired (2Tim.3:16) and is the truth(John 17:17); continue on!
If everyone read the Bible clearly on these matters like Jesus did; then there wouldn't be false interpetations. The Bible says in Col.2:16-17 "LET NO MAN THEREFORE JUDGE YOU....WHICH ARE A SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME" inwhich Jesus showed openly. (Col.2:20-22 & Heb.9:9-13 & Mark 2:23-28; 7:2-23 & Luke 13:10-16; 14:1-3 & John 5:8-10). Notice in every matter, the Pharisses thought (judge) it was wrong to eat with unwashed hands, to heal on the Sabbath, helping out people/animals on the Sabbath as other things; but Jesus always came back with Bible answers to them.

Answer 3

Sad to say but many Christians need to read and apply fully to their minds and hearts and life Romans 8:2 - For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. Walking and being filled in the Spirit, we will not desire or fulfill it's lusts of the flesh which causes us to sin, but the righteousness of the law will be fulfilled in us by the Spirit of Jesus Christ. -Romans 8:4

Answer 4

Rule of law is not from Christianity, it is from democratic capitalism pretending to be Christianity.

The real law, is that if you believe it to be wrong, then for you it is sin.

In all things we are saved by grace.

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Answer 5

God's present of sovereign dominion unfastened-will decision ability is often misunderstood and extra usually abused, in this answerer's opinion, remark and attitude. 2Corinthians 10:5 encourages me to hold all my thinking into the corral, below the management of, and in servitude to Christ so as that i'd desire to 'positioned on' Christ-expertise, and proceed to stroll by ability of religion and not by ability of sight. it is sufficient of an project to stick to in my daily interest to maintain me minding my corporation and not including to the misery on earth. besides, it additionally fills me with compassionate expertise, and thereby the grace and mercy of the main extreme would take priority over all. It additionally enables me to be raised up and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and to enable bypass of the 'cleansing soap opera drama' and 'excited misery' varieties so usually used all over the realm in the present day. the two i'm committed to having a dating with God with the aid of Christ, or i'm left to being tossed approximately like a ping-pong ball in a wind tunnel by ability of the 'rapid balls' the international tosses around daily from all diverse angles. and that's hard, perplexing, demoralizing, humiliating, and hamstringing - in spite of each of the 'perks'.. it ain't nicely worth it to this believer... thank you for the Q :)

Answer 6

which law are you talking about specifically ?

Answer 7

Correct. Christ did not come to destroy the Law, but to fulfil it. There is a difference now, we are no longer under its physical restrictions of eating certain meats, circumcision, etc...

Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Hebrews 7:16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.


The first covenant, the Law, had physical commandments were simply shadows of the heavenly and spiritual realities which Christ serves.

Hebrews 8:4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.


The Law is indeed good and a good way of judging those who sinfully walk apart from God.

1 Timothy 1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.


However, the Law could never justify us, only condemn us.

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

Hebrews 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Romans 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.


We are now under grace and should not seek to be under the physical commandments of the Law again:

Galatians 3:2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?


And all the Law is fulfilled in one commandment anyway:

Romans 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

James 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.