As if God didnt create us imperfectly.
God gave us laws to help us strive and struggle against evil.
When we fail and falter we then beg for forigiveness and strength to do better.
God created us imperfect so we come back to him with sad hearts in repentance and then struggle against desires and lusts for his sake !
Evil by definition is to break the laws of GOD !
What do you call it when you not only break the laws........ you totally negate them ?
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2007-09-22 10:40:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If your righteousness is based on the law, then you should live by the law. As Christians we live by faith and His Spirit. Christ is the end of the law FOR righteousness to everyone who believes. (Rom 10:4) His law is written on our hearts, which we obey with compassion, not compulsion. We do not "negate" them, but actually totally agree with them.
2007-09-22 10:56:17 · answer #1 · answered by Bill Mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians did not order or say to give up all laws; what it means to be Christian is a disciple of Christ Jesus and His follower. Meaning, a True Christian must be Born Again in the Spirit of God; John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Where Lord Jesus is their righteousness, that they do not need to struggle to work for the law written by Moses, to be saved; but the Holy Spirit, Himself will help them to do, it slowly and gradually overtime while they are still in their sin nature, until they will be totally glorified in Christ Jesus. Amen.
As Lord Jesus said; Matthew 22:37-40, love is the fulfillment of the Law of God! For if you have God's love then you're not only keeping the law but doing it by the power of God the Holy Spirit, John 14:6.
Another thing the Law was written for us to know that we are sinners, Jas 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
Jas 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
So you think anyone be save by obeying the law (working hard) and not accepting the Gift of salvation from God, John 3:16; and the invitation of Lord Jesus, Matthew 11:28-30?
2007-09-22 18:05:43 · answer #2 · answered by Ephesians 2:8 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are misunderstanding the New Covenant. Its just no longer an externally-enforced thing - God wants people to have right heart attitudes and good behaviour to come from that. Being born-gain and receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit make things possible in this 'inner' way that the old coercive law system couldnt.
2007-09-22 17:53:06 · answer #3 · answered by Cader and Glyder scrambler 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The law was given to us to show how we should live. It has no way to cause us to obey the law. The law not only shows us how we should live, but condemns us for failing to live that way. We look at the law and then at our lives, and our mouths are stopped. We are guilty. The way to righteousness through the law has been stopped by our sin. No man can be justified by the law. Once we broke the law, that avenue was done in. Now the righteousness of God is revealed: those who believe in Jesus, their faith is accounted for righteousness. So he who works not, but believes on Jesus, his faith is accounted righteousness. Now all who name the name of Jesus and are saved by grace are dead to the law that they might live unto God. What the law could not do because of the weakness of our flesh, God did. Now a righteous life is lived by the grace of God and not by the works of the law.
2007-09-22 18:05:10 · answer #4 · answered by pshdsa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uhhhh we didn't negate them, Jesus nullified them by dying on the cross and making a new covenant with us...
read matthew 5-7 it's alot of OT laws, but you don't have 300+ of them.
2007-09-22 17:49:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know many Christians who actually claim this; it isn't orthodox doctrine. Is there a specific group you wish to address this question towards?
2007-09-22 17:53:49 · answer #6 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋