I want to do nothing that you would like and I want to be nothing like you.
I just want you to keep me honest, is that so bad?
Or would you rather disobey God:
“Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.’And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector. - Matthew 18:15-17
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew18:15-17&version=NKJV
Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him. - Luke 17:3-4
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke17:3-4&version=NKJV
God brings the message to us in our language. No one has to know another language to know God's Truth.
Did I say that we have to know another language to know God's word? No, I did not.
I asked you if you know any Greek, because I'd like to know.
GT, How much Greek do you know? Do you know any at all?
Read it again, and more carefully.
1 Corinthians 9:21 ...(being not without law to God, but under the law of Christ,)
For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more;and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law;to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ ), that I might win those who are without law;to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with you. - 1 Corinthians 9:19-23
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians9:19-23&version=NKJV
GT, there's a reason I quoted the rest of the verse when I responded to you the first time.
I wanted you to see the context of what was being said.
Paul, as he is telling of his efforts to reach all men, makes the distinction between the "law to God" and "the law of Christ." Why?
Because he is showing that the law of Christ is to love your neighbor. BECAUSE PAUL loves his neighbor, he makes himself a servant to all, that he might win them.
The law of God, and if you want to be specific about it, the Mosaic law, and what Jesus
I have already explained it to you; it is everything Jesus taught while he walked the earth and recorded for us as is in the Holy Bible.
Incorrect.
The law of Christ is to love God and love your neighbor. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.
Simply loving God and loving your neighbor is what God wants.
You cannot love God and you neighbor without obeying God.
See, what you're doing is trying to put those who love God under laws that they do not have to keep. You are a legalist. You say that we must keep the laws that Jesus expanded upon during his ministry.
That's what legalists do, GT, they put people under more laws, saying that they must keep them.
The problem with that, is that you're forgetting one very important verse, but before I give it to you, I must ask you: Is it possible to be righteous without the law?
Circumcision of the flesh was a sign, and it was a seal.
I'm surprised you used the word "seal." Was not expecting that.
If circumcision is a sign, what is it a sign of?
All who were circumcised in the flesh did the law as given to Moses from God.
Actually, circumcision didn't start with Moses.
It started a few hundred years earlier with Abram, whom God changed his name to Abraham, putting part of His name into Abram's (Abra
Ham) and Sarai's (Sara
H). (Genesis 17)
GT, why did God 1) put part of His name into Abraham's and Sarah's, and 2) require Abraham to circumcise his entire household and all his descendants afterward? (This ties in to my previous question, "What is circumcision a sign of?")
A dictionary won't prove me wrong, GT. It only provides definitions, it cannot make an argument.
Also, you're a hypocrite, refusing to go to outside sources for information that are presented to you, but then demanding that others go and read what you want them to read.
Don't be a hypocrite, GT.
Jesus didn't preach the old law. You tried to prove it before and could not.
Jesus taught the Mosaic law. Go read Matthew 5-7.
You have placed yourself under the Mosaic laws because you are a legalist. You may not keep the ceremonial laws, but you attempt to keep the rest of it.
You are badly mistaken if you think you cannot violate Christ's law.
For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?And why not say, “Let us do evil that good may come”?—as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just. - Romans 3:7-8
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans3:7-8&version=NKJV
Harm someone else by murdering them, stealing from them, or committing adultery. You have violated the law of Christ if you do those things.
See, that's the thing, if I love my neighbor, I'm not going to do those things out of love, and I don't have to place myself under a law that says "do not harm your neighbor" to prevent me from doing such acts.
You, the legalist, on the other hand, place yourself under "do not murder, do not steal, do not commit adultery," And you make yourself a debtor to the law. You may be loving your neighbor, but you place yourself at risk by doing so.
Paul said:
Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. - Romans 13:8-10
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans13:8-10&version=NKJV