2006-06-23 06:48:35 · 5 answers · asked by zzuentes2513 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He meant you were a burden to humanity with your incessant questions.
2006-06-23 06:58:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't claim to know what he was thinking, but here's my viewpoint.
Properly executed laws would make everything run smoothly. However, laws are never actually properly executed. The punishment should fit the crime, and all crimes should be punished (in a fitting way). Unfortunately, we have rapists who only get a slap on the wrist or never get punished at all. You also have to be able to tell for 100% sure that someone actually committed the crime. This isn't possible as long as people lie. One person can commit 100 crimes and get away with it because it can't be proven that he did it. On the other hand, another person could be totally innocent and end up punished for a crime he didn't commit.
That and the fact that a lot of people make stupid laws. (How about the stuff with McDonalds being required to warn customers that their coffee is hot, so they won't get in trouble if someone spills it and boils his crotch? I mean DUH, who in their right mind wouldn't be able to figure that out on their own?) And of course some laws are unfair to begin with, to serve the interests of the segment of society the lawmakers are trying to suck up to.
So basically, any human society is incapable of making a perfect system of laws, and then perfectly punishing people who break them. Therefore, a lot of things get screwed up.
2006-06-23 14:00:57 · answer #2 · answered by onyxflame 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The law was only ever given to the Children of Israel and never to the Gentiles. The law represented works for salvation and it was impossible for man to keep the law in all points as the only one who could was Jesus himself. Now we are justified by faith of Jesus Christ without the deeds of the law. Hope this Helps!
2006-06-23 14:01:07 · answer #3 · answered by mandbturner3699 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm assuming you are refering to Paul' letter to the Galatians, I quote:
Gal 3:10-13
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. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. 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: (KJV)
The Galatian Church (having recieved the message from Paul, of salvation through Jesus Christ) were reverting back to a reliance upon the legalism of the the law of Moses. In short Paul's message here is that those who continue in the law will be judged by the law, a law that only Jesus managed to keep, but those who accept Jesus and the sacrifice that He made for us are redeemed from that curse. Jesus has taken upon Himself, our curse and in so doing has given us His righteousness.
So then, if under the New Covenant that by God's grace, exists as a bridge between us, we choose to not cross that bridge, then we remain under the judgement of the law, a burden that we can not carry, a burden that curses us to an eternity without God.
2006-06-23 14:40:19 · answer #4 · answered by movedby 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he wanted to tell them that the Blood of JESUS is only way for forgiveness of sin, unlike before where bulls and lamps were offered as law unto them for the forgiveness of sin, JESUS came into this world and took all our sins on the cross, shed all HIS blood to wash us.
1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. Roman 8:1,2,
2006-06-23 13:59:15 · answer #5 · answered by raja 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋