2007-03-20 18:25:17 · 9 answers · asked by sonoffm 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This verse is connected with Rom_6:14 : “You are not under law but under grace.”
The connection is, “You should know that you are not under law—or are you ignorant of the fact that the law has dominion over a man only when he is alive?”
Paul is speaking to those who are familiar with fundamental principles of law, and who therefore should know that the law has nothing to say to a dead man.
Ro 7:2 To illustrate this, Paul shows how death breaks the marriage contract. A woman is bound by the marriage law to her husband as long as he lives. But if he dies, she is released from that law.
Ro 7:3 If a woman marries another man while her husband is living, she is guilty of adultery. If, however, her husband dies, she is free to marry again without any cloud or guilt of wrongdoing.
Ro 7:4 In applying the illustration, we must not press each detail with exact literalness. For example, neither the husband nor the wife represents the law. The point of the illustration is that just as death breaks the marriage relationship, so the death of the believer with Christ breaks the jurisdiction of the law over him.
Notice that Paul does not say that the law is dead. The law still has a valid ministry in producing conviction of sin. And remember that when he says “we” in this passage, he is thinking of those who were Jews before they came to Christ.
We have been made dead to the law through the body of Christ, the body here referring to the giving up of His body in death. We are no longer joined to the law; we are now joined to the risen Christ. One marriage has been broken by death, and a new one has been formed. And now that we are free from the law, we can bear fruit to God.
2007-03-20 19:58:15 · answer #1 · answered by Ask Mr. Religion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have been crucified with Christ you died and the law has no jurisdiction over you. In other words to be crucified means to be born again
2007-03-21 01:33:37 · answer #2 · answered by son of God 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means that we are under the law until we die. When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we die to ourselves. That is why we are baptized in Jesus' name. We have been crucified with Christ and we no longer live. It is Christ living in us which makes us alive unto God. When we come up from the water, it is a symbol that we have been resurrected with Christ! We are no longer under the law of sin and death, Praise God!
2007-03-21 01:47:42 · answer #3 · answered by Apostle Jeff 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gosh... why is it difficult for you to understand something as simple as this?
It is saying that the law is the institution which will reign and govern over people during their lifetimes.
What could be easier than that?
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2007-03-21 01:32:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it does, but now we live in the spirit, and we have grace that covers all sin
2007-03-21 01:34:58 · answer #5 · answered by Gifted 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that sheep graze upon the bible, and lo, they shall be fleeced by vertical-haired preachers on the telebishun.
2007-03-21 01:29:12 · answer #6 · answered by laffryot 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
rule over, authority over,
2007-03-21 01:30:10 · answer #7 · answered by t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see nothing vague about that statement.
2007-03-21 01:29:28 · answer #8 · answered by Max 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is self-explanatory
2007-03-21 01:28:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋