tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1771481682224413552.post2099292025361455893..comments2024-03-16T02:12:38.325-07:00Comments on God cannot be contained!: God expects Christians to be obedient, but NOT to the Torah!Miller Jones/Lonnie C Hendrixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02865316200703641028noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1771481682224413552.post-53134416069466055602022-08-08T07:45:00.420-07:002022-08-08T07:45:00.420-07:00Paul is certainly not anti-nomian. A scan of his ...Paul is certainly not anti-nomian. A scan of his writing would be convincing of that. Most Christian churches that I know of are not anti-nomian. Yet, Armstrongists seem to believe that Christianity deals almost exclusively in "cheap grace." They are like people who live in some backwater and have no understanding of the world as it is. What Armstrongists believe about Christianity verges on superstition.<br /><br /> In reading Hoeh's writing on the Law, I am struck with the lack of accurate categorization. He refers to commandments, statutes, laws, judgements, rituals, ceremonies, sacrifices, customs, ceremonial law, the civil law of Moses and the ritualistic law of Moses. Some are no longer in effect and the remainder are. But trying to figure out how this array of caregories applies to the Torah is undefined. My guess is that any serious question would become an issue not so much of theology as church administration. So, when an Armstrongist says "we must keep the law," I would tend to ask "what law are you talking about? The Law of Moses or the Law of WCG Church Administration?"<br /><br />The Law of Moses is gone except for those parts that are God's eternal moral law and naturally retained by Jesus in the New Testament. In some cases, they law is retained as a legal formula and in other cases Jesus became that law himself in a magnified form - like Jesus is now our Sabbath. Now the seventh day retains only a pedgogical or cultural value. It may not always be that way. <br /><br />This could go on and on. I appreciate your exposition. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08487906691943831671noreply@blogger.com