What caught my attention in this thread is about loving your neighbor. It's not easier to love your neighbor in all ways. Just by doing what's in the law is lacking. Love is all-encompassing and every one of us at times fails. You wouldn't violate any of the law if you loved the way Jesus wanted us to.
The Ten Commandments are so much more than what is stated- Jesus gave an example of this right from the Ten Commandments. Mat 5:19-30 and if man was keeping all of the Ten Commandments our world would be a different place, one without sin Romans 7:7 1 John 3:4.
That's your interpretation of love. Love is action also. We can follow the law and still make derogatory remarks to our neighbors without thinking twice about it. The problem is no one can keep the whole and it points to our sinfulness which requires a savior, Jesus.
Not my interpetation..... I can't take credit for scripture or what Jesus said from His own mouth.
Both are covered in the commandments. The first 4 how to love God the last 6 how to love our neighbor and Jesus gave an example of what this means- keeping God's law in the heart where sin starts. Mat 5:18-30
Jesus would not give commandments, that we will be judged by James 2:10-12 if they couldn't be kept. While we can't do it on our own, it requires our cooperation and when we obey He gives us His Spirit to help us keep them. John 14:15-18 Acts 5:32. What we can't do on our own, we can through Christ Phil 4:13
True, and the last 6 is a short list of the multiple sins that harm our neighbor. If you look at sins from the perspective of love you won't be a drunk, angry, lie, be abusive and the list goes on. You have to see how your sins affect your wife family friends and anyone you meet.
Calling someone's answer irrelevant is not in the Ten Commandments but it is unloving. So if we follow the law it allows you to make statements like this? Love is all-encompassing.
Yes all things start in the heart that Jesus addresses as examples from the Ten in Mat 5:19-30
I never said your answer was irrelevant- that seems to be your words. I was pointing to what the scripture says, which is loving and what Jesus tells us we should do Mat 5:19 Some people like to use their words, but I prefer scripture, because only God's Word matters and should be our path Psa 119:105 Man is wrong many times. Pro 3:5-6 Pro 14:12
Sin is the transgression of God's law, so the position that Gentiles are not under it is the position that Gentiles are not obligated to refrain from sin, do not need salvation from sin, do not need grace, do not need Jesus to have given himself to redeem us from all lawlessness, and to not need to hear and believe the Gospel. The reality is that God is sovereign, so we are all under His law and are obligated to refrain from doing what it reveals to be sin. While the law was only given to Israel, it was given to Israel in order to equip them to be a light and a blessing to the nations by turning the nations from their wickedness and teaching them to obey it in accordance with the promise and with spreading the Gospel.
I challenge that statement vehemently. There is not one word in the ten commandments that required the Israelites to love. They were all about duty to others. The love commands came in Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
God didn't tell US to keep the ten commandments, He told the Israelites to keep it. God, through His Son Jesus Christ asks us to love others as He loves us. Would Jesus steal from us? Would He do any of the hundreds of wrong doing to us?
I don't know about your wife, but mine would never ask me to do something that had no meaning to us. God never asked anyone but the Israelites to observe ceremonial days like feast days, new moons and Sabbath.
Good (Deuteronomy 6:24, 10:12-13).
In Exodus 20:6, it instructs to love God and obey His commandments, so obedience to God has always been rooted in love. I were instructing someone about what it means to love, then I could give a bunch of examples of what it means to love, such as honoring our parents, keeping the Sabbath holy, or doing charity, but the fact that I didn't specifically use the word "love" in those examples does not mean that those examples were not in regard to what it means to love or that commanding those thing is not commanding love. The way to love God's justice is by following His instructions for how to be doers of justice, the way to love God's holiness is by following His instructions for how to be holy as He is holy, and so forth.
The God of Israel has given instructions for how to know, love, worship, believe in, and testify about Him, so anyone who wants to do those things can follow those instructions while anyone who doesn't want to do those things will refuse to follow those instructions. Furthermore, God gave those instructions for the purpose of equipping Israel to be a light and a blessing to the nations by turning the nations from their wickedness and teaching them to obey those instructions in accordance with the promise and with spreading the Gospel. In Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus said said that all of the other commandments hang on the greatest two commandments, then you should also think that we should obey the commandments that hang on them
In Isaiah 58, the intention was for Gentiles to call the Sabbath a delight. Keeping the Sabbath holy testifies that God created the world in six days, that He rested on the seventh, that he made it holy, that He makes us holy, and that He saves His children out of bondage, so if someone believe in the truth of these things, then, then we will keep the Sabbath holy, and if they do not believe in the truth of those things, then they will not keep the Sabbath holy.
The feast days were shadows pointing forward to Jesus. Shadows of His coming as the Messiah.
There were those who were believers but who thought that they still must keep the law and they argued that any Gentile who converted must also keep the law. However that argument was settled in Acts 15. The law only applied to those under the law. It did not apply to strangers outside.
Deu 30:11 For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off. 12It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ 13Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ 14But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
So The yoke that the Jews could not bear you want to put on believers.
No. You're mistaken in that assertion.
In Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to walk in His way that he and Israel might know Him, and in Matthew 7:23, Jesus said that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so knowing God and Jesus is the goal of the law, which is righteousness and eternal life for all who believe (John 17:3).
No, in Acts 15:10-11, it makes it clear that the yoke that no one could bear was not the Mosaic Law, but a means of salvation that is an alternative to salvation by grace, namely salvation by circumcision that was proposed by the men from Judea in Acts 15:1. The purpose for which God commanded circumcision was not in order to become saved, so the Jerusalem Council upheld the Mosaic Law by correctly ruling against requiring circumcision for an incorrect purpose. If the Jerusalem Council had been referring to the Mosaic Law as being a burden that no one could bear, then they would have been in direct disagreement with Deuteronomy 30:11-20 and Romans 10:5-8, which affirm that the Mosaic Law is not too difficult for us to obey. Likewise, in 1 John 5:3, it affirms that to love God is to obey His commandments, which are not burdensome, so if Acts 15:10 has been referring to the Mosaic Law, then that would mean that they were ruling that Gentiles shouldn't love God and that His commandments are too burdensome.
The righteousness which exceeds the self-righteousness of the Pharisees is the righteousness which comes by faith. The Jews were in bondage under the Mosaic law and the sin of breaking that law kept them in bondage as servant to it. However, under the law of faith there is a mediator who can still forgive when we sin. The Jews never had that.
