longweekend58 wrote on Jun 15
th, 2011 at 4:49pm:
You really, really need to read Romans again and perhaps to make it clearer since it is a heavy book, try a more modern translation. You seem to have a very limited understanding of the Atonement and the fulfillment of the Law of Moses meaning it DOES NOT APPLY any more.
We are not, and can never be, justified by the law.
That is true.
But are you suggesting that God's law, is of no effect ?
Righteousness, is the law.
Isn't it ?
Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways,
as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Isaiah 59:1
Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
4
None calleth for justice,
nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them!
for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies:
but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they know not me, saith the LORD.
4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour,
and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit;
through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
Why did Jesus teach
his disciples to respect Moses law ???
Weren't Jesus disciples, the members of Jesus 'church' ???
Again, why did Jesus teach
his disciples to respect Moses law ???
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.
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.
19
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
FACT;
Jesus was a
Torah law teacher.
Q.
Why ???
longweekend58 wrote on Jun 15
th, 2011 at 4:49pm:
.....or do you go to church on saturday?
Did Jesus keep the Sabbath ?
Or was Jesus a '1st day of the week' guy ?
The purpose of the Sabbath was that it was to be a day of rest and contemplation [meditation].
How do we keep Sunday ?
Exodus 31:13
Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying,
Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep:
for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
Are we a part of a worldly church [which has instituted a new day of worship, Sunday] ?
Or, are we God's children ?
How can we tell ?
"Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep...for it is a sign between me and you"
Sunday worship ???
Matthew 15:3
But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Exodus 20:8
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.