The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Moral Law

I really don't want to get involved in this... the questions are classic Theonomic Reconstructionist bait and too many 'bite'. God as by prescription requires that all men must keep His moral law. God ordained that only Christ would and could keep the moral law. God by providence and predestination called a remnant of mankind to be renewed into the likeness of Christ via the Holy Spirit's work and consequently they and they alone would and could love the Lord God and His law. Israel was raised up and given the law but would not and could not keep it and constantly rejected God and His holy law and consequently suffered the consequences of their enmity against all that was good and the One who is only Good. The moral law is eternal for it is the expression of the very nature of the Holy God. The ceremonial law was temporary since it's purpose was to point to the Messiah/Christ to come. And thus, at His coming it was abrogated and surpassed in Him. The civil law was given to Israel politic and died with their rejection and their being 'cut off', but the principles of righteous judgment are applicable to all nations.

It is nowhere written that God intended that a permanent theocracy be established upon this earth with strictly regenerated men as leaders who perfectly kept the holy moral law of God. The fulfillment of all the types and shadows is only to be found in the New Heaven and New Earth where the elect, being glorified and given their new incorruptible bodies and perfectly holy nature dwell. That God holds all human beings accountable to keep the moral law, none, NOT ONE, can do so and NO ONE can expect that such a thing will nor can exist in this fallen world. To demand that the OT body politic given to Israel is applicable today is nonsense for it makes No Sense since it was ordained to be temporary and an example of those who were to come thereafter of 1) the impossibility of perfect law keeping, 2) the horrible punishment coming upon all who do not keep the holy law of God perfectly, 3) the Savior of sinful men Who was given that those who God gave Him will come and be justified in Him and His perfect atoning work in their behalf, 4) the hope of the New world to come where righteousness dwells.

Thus, NEVER take the "bait" for it is illegitimate on its face and not worthy of one's time and very dangerous to get ensnared in its faulty 'logic' the end of which is to be carried away from the truth taught in Scripture concerning the law, the Gospel, and the salvation which is in Christ.

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