05-21-2012, 01:50 AM
Thanks for your comments Luc...I agree with most of your interpretations there.
Though the passage in Romans 10, in its context, is clearly speaking of the differance between a "righteousness that is based on the Law of Moses" and "the righteousness that is based on faith" in Christ's work.
And I do not say that a person who has Christ in them by the New Birth, need not walk in Christ's commands, but since it is not they who live, but Christ who lives in them...there is nothing to boast about, or take credit for doing so.
God imputes Christ's perfect righteousness to those who trust in Him. The Holy Spirit does not lead God's children into lawlessness/sin...but into a holiness that can't be reached by our own effort, through keeping all the laws perfectly.
Blessed is the man, whose trasgressions are not counted against him, but has been forgiven and covered by The Blood of the better Covenant. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ...those who walk not in the flesh but in the Spirit.
And Luc, which parts of the Law of Moses do you NOT keep? And does God condemn you for not keeping them? And since it is written that if you break the least law, you have broken them all, how does it work, if you break some of them, that you think you are keeping the Law of Moses?
Would you compel a gentile man to be circumcised, or grow his beard, or not eat certain foods, such as pork, as the Law of Moses commands, or instead tell them that it is no longer required under the new and better Covenant to be concerned with such things?
Shlama,
Chuck
Though the passage in Romans 10, in its context, is clearly speaking of the differance between a "righteousness that is based on the Law of Moses" and "the righteousness that is based on faith" in Christ's work.
And I do not say that a person who has Christ in them by the New Birth, need not walk in Christ's commands, but since it is not they who live, but Christ who lives in them...there is nothing to boast about, or take credit for doing so.
God imputes Christ's perfect righteousness to those who trust in Him. The Holy Spirit does not lead God's children into lawlessness/sin...but into a holiness that can't be reached by our own effort, through keeping all the laws perfectly.
Blessed is the man, whose trasgressions are not counted against him, but has been forgiven and covered by The Blood of the better Covenant. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ...those who walk not in the flesh but in the Spirit.
And Luc, which parts of the Law of Moses do you NOT keep? And does God condemn you for not keeping them? And since it is written that if you break the least law, you have broken them all, how does it work, if you break some of them, that you think you are keeping the Law of Moses?
Would you compel a gentile man to be circumcised, or grow his beard, or not eat certain foods, such as pork, as the Law of Moses commands, or instead tell them that it is no longer required under the new and better Covenant to be concerned with such things?
Shlama,
Chuck