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Originally Posted by brad2723
Again, we are dividing the law into two categories and then making assumptions that one was fulfilled and one was not. Imply all day long if you want, but the Scripture does not make this distinction now matter how you spin it.
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:28. How can I be judged for breaking a "moral law" if being found guilty requires God to identify me male or female? If God does not see male or female then I think we can accurately assume that any of the law requiring a divine distinction of the sexes has been done away with. This is, of course, an assumption but one that is based on more scripture than your assumption that there is a division between moral and ceremonial law and that the moral law is somehow eternal. |
You are making some assumptions here that I do not see supported by your passage. Perhaps you should exegize it and the context for us. That someone can only be judged requires God to identify you as male or female was never a requirement that I can think of.
The bible still continues to note the sexual differences between Christian men and women in the New Testament
Lastly, as for the law, Paul said he had not known sin but BY the law. Then he said "shall we continue to sin? God forbid!"
See, Paul is NOT saying that once you are a believer you are now exempt from being righteous or holy or "not sinning"....
Rom 6:11 So you also must consider yourselves
dead to sin and
alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
Rom 6:13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
Rom 6:14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Rom 6:15 What then?
Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
Rom 6:16 Do you not know that
if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Rom 6:17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
Rom 6:18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
Rom 6:19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations.
For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
Paul said the Law is a school master that leads us TO Christ. Because the law shows us the wickedness of our own human condition and just how far away from God humanity really is.
The morality of the law is repeated throughout the NT as well. Also..why would Jesus not only re-enforce the law but even explain things like even looking with lust a person was committing adultery if the law was no longer going to teach us what morality was?