Religious Cults & False Prophets~ Discussions and DebatesLaw + Gospel = SalvationTruth Seeker-Joshua wrote:
The reason why Paul wrote that Christ was "the end of the Law" was because at that time, the only ones saved by the law were the Israelites (Jews). It still baffles me to this day that Christians still refer to the original 10 commandments.
Make no mistake....No one has EVER....been saved by keeping the Law.
The original 10 have nothing at all to do with Christianity.
Jesus layed down the new commands that His believers were to follow.
You mean you never read where Jesus said ?
Matthew 5:17 "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled".
NIV Matthew 22:36-40
36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
NIV John 13:34-35 34"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
You mean to tell me that we were never to love anyone before ?
Then listen to this.... #1.) Leviticus 19:18 "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD".
Deuterononmy 6:5 "And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might".
Jesus merely repeated those words found in the OT.
Jesus and Paul are telling us that the only commandment is Love.
And you can't see love in the 10 commandments ?
Our acts of love prove our Christianity.
And you can't see.... 20:20 "And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a [sign] between me and you, that ye may know that I [am] the LORD your God". ....the love realtionship between God and the believer in this Bible verse ?
But to ad my two cents to this debate; the law will not save us.
Never said it did.
The obedience to ....the Law shows our relationship to Jesus Christ.....
1 John 2:3 "And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him".
Never forget that it was Christ, that wrote the 10 commandments, on Mt Sinai.
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