Are there things that were called sin in the Bible that are no longer sin?Is it no longer a sin to eat pork?Is it no longer a sin to work on Saturday?Is it no longer a sin to wear a graven image around your neck?Is it no longer a sin for a Jew to eat it with a non-Jew?Is sin always a sin________________I’m not saved because I’m good. I’m saved because He’s good!My website: www.bradfreeman.comMy blog: bradcfreeman.tumblr.com/
We have a tough time with this, many humans that is. We can’t seem to separate ‘Religious Law’ (i.e. the pork, work thing), man’s law and our concept of Moral Laws.Most of us think that Breaking the BIG TEN is still sin, well most of them! For some reason we humans NEED A LIST. We might not like the list from the 40-50’s era, but we still make a list. And just like Santa, we check it twice when we SEE some one who is OBVIOUSLY sinning (smoking, drinking, ‘pigging-out’ or SPEEDING). Okay, that is Obviously sinning according to ‘our list!’You got a list, I got a list, All God’s chillin got a list. It is sort of a shame, I pray that He understands us all. Does He have a LIST? Definitely (I think). As you can tell I am sort of a fence rider! ________________Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/
Cojak,I don’t think Brad thinks anything is a sin – if you have faith. And if he did think it was sin – it doesn’t matter.This is just his bait to see if someone on Acts will call something a sin, or say something isn’t a sin, so he can call them down and feel morally superior to them.No matter what side you take, Brad already has the verses typed out to show how superior his knowledge of grace is compared to yours.Isn’t that right, Brad________________
Exactly. For example, we see Paul speaking of the moral law and its effect of bringing the knowledge of sin and that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. (Romans 3:19-20).Yet in Galatians, Paul is obviously addressing the ceremonial law and those Gentile Christians who were being duped into trying to add works to grace by observing it________________
In his Galatians 2confrontation with Peter, you might argue he is talking about the ceremonial law saying we don’t have to live like a Jew. But it his Galatians 3explanation of the law that was added 430 years after Abraham and being our tutor to lead us to Christ this argument is weaker. And in Galatians 4, his analogy of Hagar to Mount Sinai clearly includes the moral law in that which needs to be cast out as an attempt to produce something born of the flesh. In Romans 7:6-10, Paul clearly says we have been released from the law that say thou shalt not covet. This is the moral law.Back to the OP. Isn’t sin violating the terms of your covenant?If righteousness is being as you ought to be and sin is missing the mark, couldn’t you take that to simply mean righteousness is keeping covenant and sin is breaking covenant?For OT Jews that would mean sin was breaking and of the 614 laws made them unrighteous and brought a curse on them, keeping them all made them righteous and brought a blessing.For NT Christians, the righteous man lives by faith and whatever is not of faith is sin________________I’m not saved because I’m good. I’m saved because He’s good!My website: http://www.bradfreeman.comMy blog: bradcfreeman.tumblr.com/
In his Galatians 2confrontation with Peter, you might argue he is talking about the ceremonial law saying we don’t have to live like a Jew. But it his Galatians 3explanation of the law that was added 430 years after Abraham and being our tutor to lead us to Christ this argument is weaker. And in Galatians 4, his analogy of Hagar to Mount Sinai clearly includes the moral law in that which needs to be cast out as an attempt to produce something born of the flesh. In Romans 7:6-10, Paul clearly says we have been released from the law that say thou shalt not covet. This is the moral law.Back to the OP. Isn’t sin violating the terms of your covenant?If righteousness is being as you ought to be and sin is missing the mark, couldn’t you take that to simply mean righteousness is keeping covenant and sin is breaking covenant?For OT Jews that would mean sin was breaking and of the 614 laws made them unrighteous and brought a curse on them, keeping them all made them righteous and brought a blessing.For NT Christians, the righteous man lives by faith and whatever is not of faith is sin. Let’s look at your argument here closely.
Yes! Jesus saved us from sin and lives His sinless life through us! We’ve been re-created unto good works and have God working in us to both to will and to do of His good pleasure. This is Love…the most excellent way________________I’m not saved because I’m good. I’m saved because He’s good!My website: http://www.bradfreeman.comMy blog: bradcfreeman.tumblr.com/