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Originally Posted by mfblume
Be honest. You said you never heard of the explanation of law's purpose as I laid it out. Then you say things like this. It's not hard to comply and be honest about these things.
No more can be said.
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i just never heard it applied to Christ's imperative that "Love God and your neighbor is 9/10ths of the law and prophets," no. It seems to torture the context, to me, and make what Christ is saying here moot.
Gal 6:14 puts it even more directly,
14For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself. And that is Paul!
Now yes of course keeping the law (a la Job) as a means to salvation fails; the law was given to reveal sin, we couldn't keep even one law, all that. Job kept them all, i guess, was called
righteous, yet prayed to
God at the beginning (of Job), and did not pray to
Father until the end. Job is a chronicle of a law-keeper's change of heart.
But these are two different concepts, and the Gal reference provides that the law is
fulfilled by this, if Christ's phrasing--which at least includes God, lol--seems ambiguous. Ha so here i am leaning on Paul now, when your best argument seems to rely on...well,
God in Christ's
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