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Originally Posted by Aquila
That is a question that I've considered. My issue is that as with every law in God's Law we observe both the letter and the spirit of the commandment.
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2 Cor 3
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit:
for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
Rom 8:6
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held;
that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter
Paul says we should not serve in the oldness of the letter
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Originally Posted by Aquila
When it comes to the fourth commandment we are told to observe the spirit of the law but not the letter of the law. That, in my mind, is like saying that it's okay to violate the letter of the seventh commandment, but just don't violate the spirit of the commandment. It's illogical.
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Yes, don't violate the spirit of the commandment is what I'm saying. If you don't violate the spirit of the command, there's no way you will be violating the letter of the command.
It's not possible to physically commit adultery without lust first occurring in the heart.
So if you don't violate the spirit of the command, it's not even possible to violate the letter of the command.
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Originally Posted by Aquila
I see it like this. We rest spiritually in Christ every day. However, we are to rest physically and actually take time out for faith and family on the seventh day Sabbath. Then both the spirit of the law and the letter of the law are maintained.
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Rom 8:6
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held;
that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
We can't serve in the oldness of the letter and the newness of the spirit together. It's either one or the other.
Gal 4
21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
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Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants;
the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
The Law given on Mount Sinai (
The 10 commandments) gendereth unto BONDAGE bro!
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