07-22-2011, 03:11 PM
Will,
It seems to me after reading your posts, that you seem to think that we teach it is OK to walk in the flesh and fulfill the lusts thereof, and that there is no consequence for doing so? If this is your understanding of our relationship with The Messiah and His Father...then you don't understand us at all.
Maybe you have some image in your mind, where you see people that go out and live in their fleshly nature all the time and think nothing of it? That is not what we teach.
If so...you have a distorted and false image of who we are and what we believe as God's Holy People.
I don't find much to disagree with you on most of your points, other than the Former Covenant is not the New Covenant, and God does not deal with His Children on the basis of keeping all the rituals and ordaninces and diets and the various days of observance.
But if a person wants to labor under that Former Covenant, which is no longer valid, and was fullfilled in The Messiah, who met all the requirements...then they can....but understand that it does not save the soul in any way.
As to the moral law...of course it is still true and right to walk in it, as it is loving your fellow man...which The Messiah teaches and commands us to do.
I'll go over some more with you when I get back to the computer...and thanks for taking the time to lay out your position.
Blessings,
Chuck
It seems to me after reading your posts, that you seem to think that we teach it is OK to walk in the flesh and fulfill the lusts thereof, and that there is no consequence for doing so? If this is your understanding of our relationship with The Messiah and His Father...then you don't understand us at all.
Maybe you have some image in your mind, where you see people that go out and live in their fleshly nature all the time and think nothing of it? That is not what we teach.
If so...you have a distorted and false image of who we are and what we believe as God's Holy People.
I don't find much to disagree with you on most of your points, other than the Former Covenant is not the New Covenant, and God does not deal with His Children on the basis of keeping all the rituals and ordaninces and diets and the various days of observance.
But if a person wants to labor under that Former Covenant, which is no longer valid, and was fullfilled in The Messiah, who met all the requirements...then they can....but understand that it does not save the soul in any way.
As to the moral law...of course it is still true and right to walk in it, as it is loving your fellow man...which The Messiah teaches and commands us to do.
I'll go over some more with you when I get back to the computer...and thanks for taking the time to lay out your position.
Blessings,
Chuck