sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
I find the longer the reply, the less it seems like on step at a time.Let's try and take this one step at time.What Paul is talking about in
Galatians 3:10--"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: For it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them"
There rose up certain sect of the Pharisees, saying, that is was needful to circumcised the Gentiles, and to command them to keep the law of Moses, This being the book of the law. Acts 15:3-5
To have the Gentiles to Circumcised themselves, which would be nothing wrong in that, But when a certain sect of the Pharisees said that the Gentiles should keep the law of Moses. This where Paul and Peter and the other disciples drew the line at.
Then Peter stood up and said unto them all, "Men and brethren, you know how that a good while ago God made choice Among Us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the Gospel, and believe. And God, which knows the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as he did unto us: and put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Now therefore why tempt you God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear. But we believe that through the grace Of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they" Acts 15:7-11.
Therefore it is not needful for the Gentiles to keep the law of Moses, to be saved.
The law of Moses, is what is called in the Bible, The book of the law.
This is the book of the law, which Paul is speaking about in Galatians 3:10.
There are many things that Moses had written down in the book of the law, That if they were not done precisely as Moses had written them down,Then there's a Curse for not following them precisely as Moses had written them down.
Let's take for instance the sacrificial lamb offering, If it was not done precisely as Moses had written it down, then there's a Curse for not following the instructions of Moses, As how the sacrificial lamb offering is to be done, in the book of the law.
Therefore if people wish to have their male children circumsized, there's nothing wrong in that. But to say, because they are circumcised that now they must keep the law of Moses, That's over stepping the line, What Paul and Peter and the other disciples sat down.
Christ Jesus came to redeemed us from the curse of the book of the law, Where as the book of the law, was our school-master
But after Christ Jesus has come, we are no longer under the school- master, The book of the law of Moses.
But for those who wish to place themselves under the book of the law of Moses, "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the Curse: For it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the to do them"
Galatians 3:10.
Therefore if those things in the book of the law of Moses are not done precisely as Moses had written them down, then there's a Curse for them, who do not follow what Moses had written down precisely.
Proverbs 10:19