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Re: Theological Word of the Day
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Originally Posted by dizzyde
If it [obedience to God's Instructions for righteous living] isn't coming from a heart yearning to please God, living within any pre-ordained list or law is meaningless. And if you are doing it simply out of fear or peer presure, it is void. I don't believe that living within the rules and regulations means you are wrong or are unpleasing to God, but if you are living that way because you think you are going to hell if you don't, or if you are doing it simply out of the fear of man, it is really pointless.
IMO.
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You have discovered the true message behind Romans 8:3, and why the covenant of Mt. Sinai failed - and by extension, why Christ and God's Spirit were both necessary for the salvation of mankind. It was not the covenant that God authored that was at fault, but the corrupt nature of man.
Thank you!
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It makes no difference whether you study in the holy language, or in Arabic, or Aramaic [or in Greek or even in English]; it matters only whether it is done with understanding. - Moshe Maimonides.
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