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nodAmanaV wrote: Diego wrote: Again, truths are absolute. However, the basic observation is that Christ came UNDER the Law to free us FROM the Law. Diego, Laws are meant to be followed, not broken. Please explain further.how Jesus' comimg frees us from the law, and which law(s).
OK. It looks like I am going to have to use VERY simple language here, rather than the more sermon like terminology I have been attempting.
So: Let me break it down for you as best I may.
The Law that we are talking about isn't just any law, with a lower-case "l" letter. We are talking the Law, as in the Jewish Law. Now, I don't know how much you know about the Jewish Law. I happen to know a great deal about it, for uniquely personal reasons. We would be here all week, and much, much longer if I were to try to lay out each and every Commandment (Mitzvah) of the Law, of which there are 613. The Ten that we talk about are only the most basic of those 613.
But the Jew is required to live, to the best of his ability, and follow those 613 Commandments of the Law. Now, obviously he can't do it perfectly. AND THEREIN LIES THE PROBLEM.
God is both a God of Justice and a God of Mercy. He cannot be otherwise. To be so would be completely invalidate His claim to be God. By His Mercy, we all should go to Heaven. By His Justice, however, we all deserve Eternal Damnation and Everlasting Punishment. And this is NOT by any action of His, but rather, by our own actions that separate us from an all good, all pure, all powerful God.
NOTHING, NOTHING impure can be in the Presence of a pure and perfect God. And humans are, by their very nature, impure. And so God gave His Chosen People a Law, a Law by which they could become pure enough to be with him. But it was a Law they could not possibly obey in its totality.
God of course knew this. It was part of his Divine Plan. And so in the fullness of time He Himself came down to Earth as a Man, and thought it not blasphemy to take our form, to be as one of us, to live and die as one of us, to redeem us.
As in Adam all died, so in Christ have all been made alive. Through Christ has the Law been fulfilled. It was given as a Schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ. It has served that function.
Forgive me, something, has just come up. I shall have to continue later. If you still have ore questions, do post them, and I shall get back to you on them later. Peace.
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