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Originally Posted by Aquila
In context... they'd bid you not to eat pork or anything else unclean. In context... they'd demand you be ritually cleansed from laying in the same bed as your wife when she was on her menses. In context... they'd bid you to observe the Sabbath and over 300 other laws.
This was Jesus speaking... UNDER THE LAW to people living UNDER THE LAW. Context... context.
We can't pluck a verse or teaching prior to the cross and impose it upon ourselves in this covenantal dispensation. We are called to be something far greater than anything provided by any form of law... we are called to be conformed into the image and likeness of Jesus. We are called to love God with all our hearts and to demonstrate that love by loving our neighbor as ourselves... in spite of what any law might say. It is through this love that we bear fruit. And that fruit, as it grows, is our sanctification... for as it grows... we become like Him who broke their traditions and expanded the law beyond their legalism.
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I'm not the one that needs a bible study it's the goat that does. He was trying to use that scripture to nail a outward holiness preacher and it doesn't work with that scripture.... Or any other scripture
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