what affect do these scriptures have on your understanding of Biblical law applicable today??

Question

Mat 16 :19
Jesus gives the keys of heaven to Peter (perhaps all desciples listening) and tells them they have the powers to bind and loose on earth.----make new rules

Acts 15 at 28 After all the apostles including Peter met and discussed and prayed about what the Holy Spirit desired for gentiles they say

" it is the will of the Holy Spirit and of us (those who were given the power to bind in heaven)to lay no extra burden on you than these necessary things"

They then wrote these in a letter and sent them to the Gentile believers in the Way (note these were not Hebrews and so the letter to the Hebrews unlike this letter is not addressed to gentiles)
and goes on to mention things that were idolitry at the time and the debatable fornication rule since it too was a form of idolitry with temple prostitutes (not the Jerusalem Temple) and needless to say this does not include Old Testiment law I so often see quoted.

How does this fit into your idea of rightly dividing the Word

Answer 1

yep because the jews were trying to say this in acts 15

5Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, "The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses...

& 11 says this 11No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are."

and its summed up with what you say in the Question

19& 20 19"It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God20Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.

Answer 2

Giving the keys of th kingdom and bind and loose things on earth is NOT the equivalent of making new rules.

That is exactly the reason Adam and Eve got ejected from the Garden.

They choose to set their own rules as to what was right or wrong and not follow God's direction.

But, I don't understand the idea of "rightly dividing the Word".
Do you mean that part of the word is better than another?
Or that some things were applicable 4000 years ago than they are now?

Don't know. What I do know is 2 Tim 3:16. ALL scripture is inspired...

Answer 3

That's not really it. To rightly divide the Word, you choose a topic or Scripture, then find all of the relevent texts within the Bible. From these you can develop a context and get a good idea of what God feels about the topic. There is much more to Scripture than those two verses.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

good point I will consider this and pray on it.