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04-20-2008, 11:40 PM
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Christians: What is the Law?
I think that legalism is different from following the Law. But what is the Law for Christians?
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It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found. 
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04-21-2008, 08:08 AM
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We've been working on that for 2000 years. Come back in another 2000, and maybe we'll have something definitive.
This post is only 2/3 tongue-in-cheek.
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Look at you. You think you're something special, don't you? God's gift to the universe. Right? Well, you're wrong and it's starting to get on everybody's nerves.
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04-21-2008, 09:30 AM
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Every time I try to talk to someone, it's "I'm sorry this" and "forgive me that," and "I'm not worthy." It's like those miserable psalms...they're so depressing -- God
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#4
06-02-2008, 03:21 AM
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We are not saved by following the law, because we can't. We fall way short of God's standard, that's why Christ died. And since we are saved by grace, we will want to follow God's laws.
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06-02-2008, 07:54 AM
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Look at you. You think you're something special, don't you? God's gift to the universe. Right? Well, you're wrong and it's starting to get on everybody's nerves.
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#6
06-02-2008, 08:16 AM
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Actually, we cannot.
No, it's not even possible that we could be saved by following the law:
"...knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified." (Galatians 2:16)
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#7
06-02-2008, 08:24 AM
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The Law is summarized for the Christian thusly:
Love the Lord with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
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Every time I try to talk to someone, it's "I'm sorry this" and "forgive me that," and "I'm not worthy." It's like those miserable psalms...they're so depressing -- God
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#8
06-02-2008, 09:46 AM
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Quote:
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"I love You, beloved Jesus; / I love You more than I love myself. / With all my heart I repent of ever having offended You. / Grant that I may love You always; and then do with me as You will." -from St. Alphonsus Liguori's Stations of the Cross
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06-02-2008, 09:57 AM
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We are no longer under the law, but grace.
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I've only been wrong once, and that was when I thought I was wrong but I was really right.
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#10
06-02-2008, 10:19 AM
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And yet...we continue to be "law-ful," instead of "grace-ful."
 Go figure...
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Every time I try to talk to someone, it's "I'm sorry this" and "forgive me that," and "I'm not worthy." It's like those miserable psalms...they're so depressing -- God |
