Answers about The Law*
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Short Answer:
The Law is more than the 613 and more than just the 10C. It includes not only anything in the OT, but also includes for all unsaved people the Universal Law. Scripture tells us God has put it in all humans hearts and conscience as part of our design. And that we know instinctively right from wrong because of it. God also revealed in Scripture that people hide from the truth and suppress the truth, and seer their conscience so they sin and commit worse sins [in thought word and deed all their lives].
1. So theres the universal Law revealed in OT & NT.
2. The Mosaic Law for Israelites only
And both of those overlap, such as dont lie, dont murder.
3. Then there's the Law of Christ for Christians; the law of liberty.
Laws were always about righteousness, the perfect righteous holiness of God and that we all fall far from that perfect standard - because of the fall and our now sin nature. If we walk in Christ we walk in righteousness, and when the Redeemed enter Heaven, they are perfected.
About the Law of Christ: Christians live in freedom within the bounds of righteousness. Because of the new righteous nature they recieved from God at the moment of Salvation when they were born again by God, and it is also the Holy Spirit entered & indwells them and is an eternal seal of their salvation. He enables them to love righteously, grow in holiness, conquer sins, have victiry over them. And when they stumble and mess up God still sees Jesus sacrificial payment for their sins, and His blood covers them and he is their High Priest in Heaven. This Law is simply loving God and loving others; which is possible because they have been transformed by God. It is impossible for a believer to break this Law because Christ fulfilled every law on behalf of all believers, and he lives in believers, living out that righteousness in and thru us, even if we make sinful mistakes. He is conforming us to His image day by day.
Based on this simple explaination, an unbeliever now grasps why the Mosaic Laws dont apply today, and that they never applied to non-Israeli's anyway.
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