I thought of this last evening and wanted to share here.
Why would we set to arguing about God's law of love? Why would any of us be adamantly opposed to someone else honoring the Sabbath day when they feel led to? It's their faith and their relationship with the Father. A personal individual connection to the Lord.
Why would anyone argue that basic human decency as outlined and as a matter of having a foundation in love for our self and love for our neighbor as we love our self, be at issue for anyone who is in Christ? When that individual believes the ten commands of God are eternal. Because they are not only grounded in Love for God, ourselves, and our neighbor whom the edicts insure reflect love for that neighbor as we love ourselves who would not trespass against them. These being the two great commands Jesus said the law and the prophets hang upon.
Jesus , when asked what parts of the law apply, didn't say , they don't. Because I am arrived! Jesus reiterated the law in his ministry, the ten commands, and in answering that question informed those attending that love of God and self are what those laws reflect. Love of God. Love of our self and for our neighbor whom we are to love and respect as we love and respect our self.
Why then would there ever be a conflict among the people of God's holy church in these matters? How could we ever dare say the laws of, thou shalt and shalt not, don't apply now?
When those ten commands are reflective of not just love of God, but basic human decency.
And we would dare say, no, that isn't applicable anymore because Jesus delivered the new covenant that exists without that.
I've come to believe the strongest opponents to those ten laws of decency and respect for God are not in the church of our Lord. They're in the congregation of the anti-christ. They know they'll not persuade those anointed of Christ to turn from God but they'll escalate a pointless discussion to that end just to interject tare after tare after tare, so as to gain attention from those who are in Christ. As we erroneously imagine we'll ever be able to set them on the straight and narrow.
This discussion if you read back just 10 pages is going nowhere. It is circling and circling and circling in the same downward direction and repeating the same point and counterpoint only in different phrases. All meaning to present the same message.
God's moral guidance doesn't apply - That's the anti-christ path
You're wrong! - That's the righteous path.
When Jesus did not say the law was abolished but that he had fulfilled it, it meant he fulfilled the laws of Moses so as to make them null and void. Jesus ministry went on to reiterate, re-state, the ten laws of our Father as still in effect when he was asked what laws matter still.
Do we argue now our Savior was wrong? And those against that teaching are right?
Maybe those in the faith and eternal irrevocable embrace of our precious Father might consider that rather than having a discussion here we're actually being approached by the messages and messengers of the enemy of our Father.
2 Corinthians 11:12-15
And I will continue doing what I am doing now, because I want to stop those people from having a reason to brag. They would like to say that the work they brag about is the same as ours. Such men are not true apostles but are workers who lie. They change themselves to look like apostles of Christ. This does not surprise us. Even Satan changes himself to look like an angel of light. So it does not surprise us if Satan’s servants also make themselves look like servants who work for what is right. But in the end they will be punished for what they do.
That's all I wanted to say.