I think the ten commandments are directly from God, they all tell of ways we can make God's love come alive. If they are done legalistically, or without love, they are changed by humans into laws that are not of love, but the law itself is Godly I think.
Paul is just impossible, I could shake him. He doesn't tell us when he is speaking of the oral traditions that Jews at the time even called the law of Moses and the real Law of the Lord. What I do to try to get them straight is to keep in mind the ways of the Lord and what God tells us in other chapters and fit Paul's speaking of law fit into the eternal way of the Lord.
I think that it has always been so that the rituals God gave man has always been just that: rituals. They have been a help to man, but are not eternal law and never was. I think it changed when people didn't need rituals any longer but the rituals were replaced at Pentecost. Jews still use them as a means to keep God as part of every part of living and it works for them. The rituals aren't what work, but keeping God as part of everything they do works. For them it includes eating, washing their hands, going to bed, waking---everything every day. It just doesn't save.
Paul is just impossible, I could shake him. He doesn't tell us when he is speaking of the oral traditions that Jews at the time even called the law of Moses and the real Law of the Lord. What I do to try to get them straight is to keep in mind the ways of the Lord and what God tells us in other chapters and fit Paul's speaking of law fit into the eternal way of the Lord.
I think that it has always been so that the rituals God gave man has always been just that: rituals. They have been a help to man, but are not eternal law and never was. I think it changed when people didn't need rituals any longer but the rituals were replaced at Pentecost. Jews still use them as a means to keep God as part of every part of living and it works for them. The rituals aren't what work, but keeping God as part of everything they do works. For them it includes eating, washing their hands, going to bed, waking---everything every day. It just doesn't save.
It is psretty easy to understand this so how can anyone who loves sthroughtly be "under or a slave tothe law?"
Jesus is our 0propitiaqtion for all of th guilt of our traqnsgressions neve some lame argument of th flesh such as grace only to replace our obedience to gOD wHO iS lOVE...