The Law in Galatians 3

[PROPHECYKID]

Is the law spoken about in Galatians 3 the 10 commandments. Explain your answer. And if that be the case, then is the 10 commandments against faith?

[TrustAndObey]

Every time I turn around someone is giving me homework! :)

<scurrying off to read it>

[TrustAndObey]

My short answer....ceremonial law.

Why? There are several clues actually...but here's a good one:

Gal 3:13 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:

Was that written on stone? Nope.

Deut 21:22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:

23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

[TrustAndObey]

We can't stone and hang each other anymore.

But what makes a person a sinner didn't change.

[PROPHECYKID]

Every time I turn around someone is giving me homework! :)

<scurrying off to read it>
I am sorry. This is my first new thread since a very long time. That is a nice welcome to my new thread huh. But you have given your answer so your "homework" is done.

[TrustAndObey]

I am sorry. This is my first new thread since a very long time. That is a nice welcome to my new thread huh. But you have given your answer so your "homework" is done.

I was just teasing. I'm a full-time college student so that's where that came from. No offense to you brother, this is a very good question!

[PROPHECYKID]

I was just teasing. I'm a full-time college student so that's where that came from. No offense to you brother, this is a very good question!
Me too. I am attending University. I liked your answer though. That was my thinking.

[OntheDL]

Is the law spoken about in Galatians 3 the 10 commandments. Explain your answer. And if that be the case, then is the 10 commandments against faith?

The law in Galatians is both moral and ceremonial.

[PROPHECYKID]

The law in Galatians is both moral and ceremonial.
Care to explain.

[OntheDL]

When a Jew talks about the law, he/she always refers to the whole law.

Paul being a Jew talked about the law in Gal 3 that was 430 years after the promise made to Abraham. That is at mount Sinai. At Mt. Sinai, the 10 commandments were given (codified) as well as the law of Moses which contained the moral and the ceremonial along with civil ordinances.

Now were the 10 commandments or the moral laws against faith? Well of course not.

Look at how Paul began Galatians 3:

1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

One of the issues facing the early new Christians was Judaizing: the works of keeping the law for righteousness. This is evident throughout the Pauline epistles.

Paul was not speaking against the law, but against the works of the keeping the law for righteousness as the Jews did.

Here is the spirit of prophecy comment on Gal 3. I think it also answers your question in the other thread that has been locked.

I am asked concerning the law in Galatians. What law is the schoolmaster to bring us to Christ? I answer: Both the ceremonial and the moral code of ten commandments. {1SM 233.1}

Christ was the foundation of the whole Jewish economy. The death of Abel was in consequence of Cain's refusing to accept God's plan in the school of obedience to be saved by the blood of Jesus Christ typified by the sacrificial offerings pointing to Christ. Cain refused the shedding of blood which symbolized the blood of Christ to be shed for the world. This whole ceremony was prepared by God, and Christ became the foundation of the whole system. This is the beginning of its work as the schoolmaster to bring sinful human agents to a consideration of Christ the Foundation of the whole Jewish economy. {1SM 233.2}

All who did service in connection with the sanctuary were being educated constantly in regard to the intervention of Christ in behalf of the human race. This service was designed to create in every heart a love for the law of God, which is the law of His kingdom. The sacrificial offering was to be an object lesson of the love of God revealed in Christ--in the suffering, dying victim, who took upon Himself the sin of which man was guilty, the innocent being made sin for us. {1SM 233.3}
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Especially the Moral Law

"The law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith" (Gal. 3:24). In this scripture, the Holy Spirit through the apostle is speaking especially of the moral law. The law reveals sin to us, and causes us to feel our need of Christ and to flee unto Him for pardon and peace by exercising repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. {1SM 234.5}
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