No, you're not. Otherwise, you wouldn't make that admission of wrong doing while continuing to make an effort to , in your mind, insult my faith in thinking I'm a Legalist as if that's wrong.
Christians that imagine all that Jesus taught about his law, because Jesus was God, and that means he was God who gave Moses the commandments on Sinai, and reiterated those in his NT ministry, is done away entirely are scary people. Truly.
Besides blatantly, and again, as in your case, abrogating what is in scripture itself as pertains to God's Law. When the truth is, that which is read in proper context, understood as an ongoing narrative that is never removed from the foundation that is the OT. While insisting the Christian is set apart and removed utterly from God's law, given that, is HOGWASH!
But, it does serve those who misunderstand the import of Eternal Salvation. Those who misrepresent that truth of God through Christ when they claim OSAS, as they call it and intending that to be a pejorative, is a "license to sin".
Let me just say, not a Christian alive who has read the New Testament believes that. Not one! Anywhere.
Why? Because those Christians have also read this:
1 John 3:9Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
Other rekated scriptures: "those in christ do not make a habit of sinning"
Billy E said it best about OSAS. Transforming what naysayers imagine is a false doctrinal reference as they condemn what they call, OSAS, into what God guarantees eternally!
OSAS=Once Sealed Always Sealed.
Those who are in Christ, and have Christ within them, sealed unto the last days, know, KNOW, that God's laws are in their hearts so that they are not far from them. Hebrews 10:16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I
will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds, 17 then he adds,“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin."
Matthew 22:37 And he said to him, “
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
How is this accomplished? Because God's law is in our hearts and mind. That's how we are reborn and transformed into a new creation.
We were of the world, and the ways and "laws" of hedonism, carnality, in the world. Those no longer appeal nor apply to us. The ways of God do. There's no more sacrifices for sin. We don't slaughter animals to cover our sins. The last sacrifice, the pure unblemished Lamb of God cast that ceremonial law aside for all time.
What many appear not to realize is, God's law in the OT was in three categories. Ceremonial Law, Moral Law, Civil Law. Civil Law was between Jews, like civil law matters in courts today. Ceremonial Law was sacrifices to cover sins, now done away by Christ for the Christians for all time. That leaves the moral law.
As Jesus said, the law and the prophets are encapsulated in two laws. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
The Ten Commandments, the Decalogue, all ten commands encapsulated those two laws of Jesus. Love of God. Love of one's neighbor.
What's scary is to think there are Christians out there that think the moral laws of God no longer apply! I got news for them. They're not Christians!
Love for your neighbor insures you Shalt do, all that those commandments concerning neighbors and family declare Thou Shalt Not.
Love of God insures you shalt Love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind! And this means, thou shalt NOT have any other God's before him!
So when you make accusations about my belief about the Law of God, as if that's somehow your latest accusation against me, when Hebrew Roots didn't fly, Calvinist didn't fly, I say, thank you! Not because of how you meant those words about the law of God and me.
But because I know what Jesus said about his law and me! And brother, I can tell you, that's not an insult or wrong thinking by this woman!
When you or anyone for that matter think the law of God, now the Law of Christ for obvious reasons, is not applicable for Christians, you're
dead wrong!
OH, and the Sabbath. Yes, the Sabbath. The other bone of contention some raise against Christians here.
The Sabbath was given to us by God. It was made for us by God!
It isn't a "Jewish" thing! If that erroneous idea enters someones thoughts, cast it away quickly. Because according to Bible prophecy, God's foretelling of that which he has predestined for the world, Jesus Christ was Jewish! If you're against something because you think it applies only to the Jews, you're missing the mark! Pun intended.
Jesus is our Sabbath rest. No kidding! That's because Jesus is God who gifted us
our Sabbath day of rest.
Mark 2:27 And he said to them,
“The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath."
We're indwelt by Holy Spirit God. Of course every day is a day with God, Christ. We have our eternal assurance in him. God knows this.
That's why God predestined a day where we, a temple of God, can take our rest from the occupations in this world and all that seeks our attentions, and rest in The Word. Pray, Meditate, Fast. No distractions like in our daily life.
That's not a "Jewish thing". That's a God made gift thing.
Problem?
