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You can't even come close.
You need to accept the fact that you are a sinner, Romans 3:10.
We have to admit we are sinners and repent of those sins to be saved.
You can't even come close.
You need to accept the fact that you are a sinner, Romans 3:10.
We have to admit we are sinners and repent of those sins to be saved.
It is the work of the Holy Spirit to produce Christ likeness in the life of the believer.
Trying to produce Christ likeness by the law or religion will lead to being under the law.
Jesus was God's law incarnate in human flesh, Romans 3:21.
As our substitute and representative he has offered to God the Father a life of perfect obedience according to his Holy Law. He did this in our name and on our behalf. We are complete in him, Colossians 2:10.
Here are the verses that refer to the avenger of blood. Should not there be witnesses and a court instead of a person getting even? Murder for murder does not make sense. Now there is more than one murder.
Deuteronomy 19:6 NASB - otherwise the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in the heat of his anger, and overtake him, because the way is long, and take his life, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated him previously.
Deuteronomy 19:12 NASB - then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
Joshua 20:3 NASB - that the manslayer who kills any person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall become your refuge from the avenger of blood.
Joshua 20:5 NASB - 'Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor without premeditation and did not hate him beforehand.
Joshua 20:9 NASB - These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally may flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the congregation.
2 Samuel 14:11 NASB - Then she said, "Please let the king remember the LORD your God, so that the avenger of blood will not continue to destroy, otherwise they will destroy my son." And he said, "As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground."
I have posted elsewhere in response.
Be more specific.
There's every likelihood that the more specific you get, the more you'll prove your own point wrong but that actually does depend on just what your point is and what exactly you mean by covenant.
A saved sinner.
Jonah, Clete has so judged himself also.
Matthew 7:2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
The Book of the Law was placed beside the ark, but not in the ark.
What was in the ark of the covenant? Might it have been the covenant? (Deuteronomy 9:11)
Do you want to answer my question or speak in riddles?
Oxymoron. Does not compute.
Christ in us saves us from sin, not so we can keep on sinning. (Galatians 2:17)
They believe that the Holy Spirit makes them holy.
Spoken like a great Jew.
No, we WILL admit we are sinners and repent, after we are resurrected (regenerated) to new life by the Holy Spirit.
A horse cannot run free until after the barn door is opened . . .
Regeneration precedes faith.
The everlasting covenant was carried into the NT as the Law of Liberty.
The everlasting covenant is not the ministry of death written in stone that has been done away. Every aspect of the old covenant was a shadow of the new covenant. The law written in stone prefigured the law of the Spirit written in the heart. God doesn't crack open our rib cage and implant two tablets of stone at conversion.
Neither is true. I don't know if this is intentional or not, but you are asking about what if God would do something He would never do.Thanks so much for stating the obvious. Why do you suppose I chose murder and not some other sin? It precisely because there's no denying that its "never okay".
But that is not what I asked!
I will never understand why people come to a website to discuss religious topics and to debate doctrine but who are afraid to answer really straight forward questions.
So what if God said that it was alright to murder people if they make your really really mad?
Would that make murder good or would it make God evil?
I believe these verses about the avenger of blood talk about someone having been killed unintentionally. There was no premeditation. Is this different from murder? I also don't know what a manslayer is.Thanks Jacob for identifying the text about the avenger of the blood, I always carry the Tanach with me when I am discussing the matter in forums. This time though, I was out.
Of course He would never actually say it! It's called a hypothetical question! Such questions are not asked to impugn God's character but to test your own! How can you possibly know whether what you believe is the actual truth if you're afraid to answer even the simplest of questions that are designed to it's veracity? You should understand that you fear of asking such simple questions is evidence (not proof) that there are serious flaws in your doctrine. You would be wise to sit yourself down and do some real thinking and praying about why, if your doctrine is true, does it not give you the courage of conviction and why are you are not convinced in your own mind that what you've been taught is the truth.Neither is true. I don't know if this is intentional or not, but you are asking about what if God would do something He would never do.
Jesus is the Word of God.