QUOTE(Piros @ Oct 17 2012, 03:06 PM)
You're asking a question that is not related. I nowhere said the law save you but only Christ saves, you sir really needs to read my posts. What I'm saying is that the law shows what is sin and God hates sin, That is why the judgment day is coming. Because sin not only displeases Him but because He hates it too. It is Evil! This is not a base factor. The Bible clearly teaches this.
You need to remember one thing first and utmost, Jesus was sinless because He perfectly kept the 10 commandments of God. If even in just one time He fails to keep even one of the commandment, He couldn't save us at all!
When you keep the 10 commandments perfectly, you are as the angel and Christ, sinless. But human can't keep the commandments perfectly due to original sin which makes us incline to sinning. Which is what God is saying in Romans 3:10-18.
So if any human can keep the laws perfectly, He will not be judge because He obeyed and kept God's precepts. However no human can do that. Even the rich young man when he says I kept the commandments since young, but he didn't kept the most important one that is to love the LORD your God with you whole being" as we see his heart was set to riches.
It is possible for a man to enter heaven without Christ's atonement if he keeps God's commandments perfectly but again as I pointed out, we don't have that capability due to original sin. The only 2 humans had that was Adam & Even when they were still sinless.
Now let me ask you a question, why would God judge a person and say he is sinful when he keeps the 10 commandments perfectly? Without sin, they'll be no need for a savior. A person who keeps the commandment perfectly is the person who love the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and Loves His Neighbor as himself. None of us except Christ have kept it. I agree with all the ones in purple highlighted.
Nope. Adam and Eve lived before the 10 commandments. Assuming if they lived passed after Moses gave the Law, even they WILL fail to keep it.
lol you just answer your own question in red.
The answer is Nobody can. So Again the same question points back, If nobody can, How can you please God?
QUOTE(ymc2303 @ Oct 17 2012, 03:17 PM)
Exodus 20
The Message (MSG)
20 1-2 God spoke all these words:
3 No other gods, only me.
4-6 No carved gods of any size, shape, or form of anything whatever, whether of things that fly or walk or swim. Don’t bow down to them and don’t serve them because I am God, your God, and I’m a most jealous God, punishing the children for any sins their parents pass on to them to the third, and yes, even to the fourth generation of those who hate me. But I’m unswervingly loyal to the thousands who love me and keep my commandments.
7 No using the name of God, your God, in curses or silly banter; God won’t put up with the irreverent use of his name.
8-11 Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Work six days and do everything you need to do. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to God, your God. Don’t do any work—not you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your servant, nor your maid, nor your animals, not even the foreign guest visiting in your town. For in six days God made Heaven, Earth, and sea, and everything in them; he rested on the seventh day. Therefore God blessed the Sabbath day; he set it apart as a holy day.
12 Honor your father and mother so that you’ll live a long time in the land that God, your God, is giving you.
13 No murder.
14 No adultery.
15 No stealing.
16 No lies about your neighbor.
17 No lusting after your neighbor’s house—or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don’t set your heart on anything that is your neighbor’s.
Just a recap for you on what the commandment was all about. Not following means you are not serious about following Jesus if that is what i think it is.
If you trust only in the NT on Jesus's teachings but disregard what was told in the OT, then you are mistaken. Both needs to be observe. What you see on the first five commandments was about God and you. And the rest of the five was about you and society. and what was teach in the NT was the simplified version of the OT. Jesus can never take out what was given by His Father nor anyone else.
I'll take the excerpt from #2935.
I know what the details of the 10 commandments.
Could be either one or both, my wordings or just comprehension.
But bear with why I said this. Don't get angry.
If you can be patience with me, what you said is a bit contradicting. If you can agree you're not justified by keeping the Law then by the same token You can't please God by obeying it.
Bolded, that is not in the Bible. That is human reasoning. (bold n underline one)
I agree it's God's precept even until today but the very sole reason for it's existence is there, not for you to please God.
Galatians 3:19 (NIV) explain it;
What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator
NLT explains it better.
Galatians 3:19 (NLT)
Why, then, was the law given? It was given alongside the promise to show people their sins. But the law was designed to last only until the coming of the child who was promised. God gave his law through angels to Moses, who was the mediator between God and the people.
It's purpose is to show our sins. without it, wouldn't know.
That is why Jesus came as (you said) to show the greatest of all the commandments which really in essence is Love.
1. Love God
2. Love Others.
The Bible define that Love and Faith is basically what please God.
1 John 4:20
If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God,
whom he has not seen.
Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
That is the New Life and the New Law so to speak.
Look at
Galatians 3:23-25
23Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. 24So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christh that we might be justified by faith. 25Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law.
Notice the word there supervision?
Some of you may say because we need the law for guidance, otherwise how to know what is right or wrong?
I have said it before, the only Flaw I find about the 10 commandment is not so much what is in the 10 commandment but the reason for it.
The Law and the 10 commandment is very centred on Man coming to God. That is self effort.
Whereas in the new covenant, Grace has been repeated mention over and over again what is given to you by God, you cannot earn it.
In the New Covenant, We look to Jesus to reach God.
Jesus is the only one who fulfilled the Law perfectly and better yet, He came bring it to a level that's more refine than the previous. You can say this is like making things more difficult.
Do you know why?
So that we only look to Him Alone. (Jesus) not the 10 commandments anymore.
This post has been edited by unknown warrior: Oct 17 2012, 04:44 PM