JonahofAkron
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So, the moral of your comment...... God made a mistake in the mosaic covenant?God give what is relevant to and for the people at the time of giving. God always do. For example, God determines who goes to heaven and who goes to hell according to each person's free choice actions. What a man sow that shall he reap.
Galatians: 6 King James Version (KJV)
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Back then, Moses led loveless people. Therefore he got a covenant for loveless/spiritless people. He got a loveless/spiritless commandment, the ten commandments.
Moses' people, (O.T. people) could not be told to be guide by love. Love is a quality of our hearts or spirit. God is Love and God is a Spirit.
The hearts of those Jews (who got the law) were waxed grossed. (Shakespeare gave us an example of a Jew, heartless/loveless/spirit dead, Shylock.) The one he was persecuting and prosecuting according to law was Antonio, a 'soft heart-ed'/loving/spirit awaken), Christian.
Fact is, Love is God, and God is a Spirit, a 'not seen' thing. These Jews were not yet awaken to faith (i.e. belief in things not seen). Because they were given Moses law as their schoolmaster, to manage them, until the awaken to faith (i.e. come onto faith).
Moses' followers had to get a loveless commandment to manage and guide them until become awaken to faith and love.
The first covenant was flawed. It was not final. It was not any definition of God's righteousness. It was simply a tool suited to spiritually dead/loveless/faithless people.
The first covenant, Moses law, was and is, for temporary use. It was and is to be used only on and by, spiritually dead/loveless/faithless/unbelieving people until they become spiritually aware/loving/faith-filled.
The first covenant, Moses law, was and is, to be used only on and by, spiritually dead/loveless/faithless/unbelieving people until they come cone onto faith and become believers in (lovers of) the Spirit, 'not seen' and eternal Son of God Lord Jesus.
The first covenant, Moses law, was and is, given for people who were not aware of spirit/love. It was their schoolmaster while they were in the school for the spiritually dead/loveless. It was their schoolmaster until they graduated and become spiritually aware/aware of love. Then the law is not only to be dropped but Christians/believers have God given justification to transgress Moses' law.
Galatians: 3 King James Version (KJV)
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Act: 13 KJV N.T.
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
The flawed, Moses law, was the loveless/spiritless covenant. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus which makes one free from the law of Moses is the New or second covenant which replaced the first flawed Mosaic covenant.
Hebrew: 8 KJV N.T.
7 For if that first covenant (i.e. Moses law) had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second (i.e. the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus which makes one free from Moses' law).
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