The devil had yet to be conquered, during Jesus' life.
The adversary remains in play to this day.
The devil's day will come to an end at some point, specifics not known to us
So, you are pro-circumcision for salvation.
I must disagree.
And that is merely your "fleshly reflection" of that law. We know the law is spiritual, Romans 7:14 and summed up in its entirety by Paul in Romans 13:8-10 and the many other likewise throughout the scriptures.
Most of the OT Laws, excluding the ten commandments given to Moses, have been done away with.
The rest of the OT points forward to the coming Messiah and future judgement...among other things.
Allegorical, indeed.
No Word of God has been eliminated. Matt. 4:4, Luke 4:4, Deut. 8:3
There very good examples of how any and
every command in the Bible should be viewed in Romans 13:8-10
In Gal. 4:21-24 Paul terms the law and the lives of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Hagar and Ishmael as "allegory." IF that much of the O.T. is allegory, it's ALL ALLEGORY
In addition, the law. God's Living Word remains alive and active against all lawlessness and sin in whomever it is found. 1 Tim. 1:9. By no means eliminated. It is a rightful and continual condemner that no amounts of supposed compliance can fool, because evil is INTERNAL and can not, will not ever be compliant or lawful. It is an instrument of DEATH. And we all die because of sin. Romans 8:10
Are you still counting yourself amongst that doomed crowd ?
I don't, since my repentance from sin.
Your positions contain the very common LACK of insight into our enemy, our adversary, the devil.
You only think of yourself in the equations. Common deception courtesy of the devil.
The LAWS are in fact against the DEVIL and guess what? The DEVIL can not love our neighbors.
We know who sees and who does not simply by their fruit. No love of neighbors = DECEIVED by our adversary. Pretty simple. No offense to the deceived. Every offense to the devils.
We could even say if we can't say we are deceived, given the fact that none of us see in FULL, then we are deceived.
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called
the Devil, and Satan, which
deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
I will readily say the evil conscience I bear can not be lawful, sinless or compliant with God whatsoever and I look forward to the day when Jesus will eliminate it entirely. But in the meantime we struggle and strain simply to be truthful about it. Jer. 17:9 is real and the world is full to the brim with LIARS about it
If there is a devil, or many devils in you, it is time to repent permanently of sin and start to walk in the light, wherein is no sin. (
1 John1:5)
I believe that what Jesus said in Mark 4:15 is true for me and for all people. I have no issues with believing Jesus. You? In addition we know from Paul that we're no better than the common sinner, Romans 3:9 and that sin is in fact "of the devil," 1 John 3:8
We keep circling this drill, and quite frankly conversations with sinless people are quite fruitless because such claims are totally bogus, they ignore the very real working of our adversary in our minds, they excuse lawless evil temptation thoughts from themselves as if they are not defiling as Jesus stated, and they are and will probably remain unable to even come to grips with the scriptural facts.
In addition such claims are so far out of orthodoxy it places such positions well into cult status.
Maybe you could identify what cult that is? We've had enough conversations for you to fess up at this point.
