tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1771481682224413552.post2809399360216783016..comments2024-03-16T02:12:38.325-07:00Comments on God cannot be contained!: CGI's Response to the ACOG Covenant DilemmaMiller Jones/Lonnie C Hendrixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02865316200703641028noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1771481682224413552.post-86124075899860301142022-06-03T15:31:02.906-07:002022-06-03T15:31:02.906-07:00I noticed the series of articles you wrote about J...I noticed the series of articles you wrote about Jesus in the OT. I plan to eventually read them. There is much embedded in the OT and I have never really made an effort to try to identify passages. Looking forward to reading what you have written.<br /><br />NeoAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08487906691943831671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1771481682224413552.post-25459898889113891592022-06-03T12:22:38.100-07:002022-06-03T12:22:38.100-07:00I agree with your assessment of the Armstrongist p...I agree with your assessment of the Armstrongist perspective on the Christian's responsibility to the Law. It is inconsistent and indefensible for the reasons you pointed out. They have a blind spot where this is concerned, and they sound like a broken record on the "doing away with the Law" thing!<br />On some level, they do understand that Christ fulfilled the Law by perfectly keeping all of its provisions, they profess to understand that Christ "magnified" the Law, and some of them seem to understand that at least some of the provisions of the Law pointed to Christ. I'm not sure, however, that any of them understand that Christ fulfilled the Law in the sense that ALL of it pointed to Christ - or the way that he transformed the Law to incorporate it into the terms of the New Covenant.<br />As you are probably already aware, I am currently going through all five books of the Torah to demonstrate just how extensively Christ can be found in those writings. In fairness, I'm not sure that the average traditional Christian fully comprehends the extent to which the old points to the new! Hopefully, when I'm finished, the pervasiveness of Christ in the Torah will be very apparent to everyone. I consider this to be an essential component of demonstrating the Christian's relation and responsibility to the Law.Miller Jones/Lonnie C Hendrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02865316200703641028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1771481682224413552.post-62513510594277950212022-06-03T07:00:54.494-07:002022-06-03T07:00:54.494-07:00Miller: My guess is that Armstrongist preachers w...Miller: My guess is that Armstrongist preachers would contend that your term "transform" is equivalent to "doing away with." They mean the Law in its original signatures with only the sacrifices set aside. <br /><br />The problem with their recast of the Law is that they argue themselves into a dilemma. They focus on the Sabbath, Holy Days and Tithing when there is a bunch of the non-ceremonial requirements in the Law that they do not keep. They relegate these requirements to the level of cultural oddities without any real basis for such a view. No Armstrongist minister, who has a teenaged daughter with acne, makes her shout "Unclean!" as other people approach her. But this is as much a part of the Law as Sabbath observance. The Law has no gradation - must do always, do some of the time and forget about it.<br /><br />Armstrongists argue themselves into the loss of salvation. They make the keeping of the Law a requirement for salvation yet they do not keep it in its entirety. They observe it selectively and in a modern implementation (staying in a hotel rather than a brush arbor for the FoT, for example). And they have not asserted a well exegeted Dogma of Selectivity to underpin this viewpoint. Essentially, what they have done is issue a new rendition of the Law of Moses through the WCG Church Administration Department (CAD). So when you spar logically with them you must recognize that they are not talking about the Law of Moses, they are really talking about the Law of the CAD. And the CAD is based on post-70 AD Rabbinic Judaism (sans Temple) and not the Law as observed in Second Temple Judaism which was based on the OT. <br /><br />By advocating this model of the Law, they are saying that "none of us will be saved."<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08487906691943831671noreply@blogger.com