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Are Grace and Law Compatible?
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In our society grace and law are often pitted against each other as if they were opposites. Yet, if there were no law we would need no grace. For God's moral law defines sin. Romans 7:7 "I won't have known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."...
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3rd Use of the Law
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This is an important topic, so I've made a separate thread for it. WHAT ARE THE THREE USES OF LAW ? So what are these three uses of law which the Protestant Reformers taught. 1. First was to point out wrong actions and place at least an outward restraint upon sinners. 2. The second use of the law was to po...
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Is Obedience the fruit of salvation or the fruit of faith?
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Many say obedience and/or works are the fruit of salvation. No they are not. They are the fruit of faith, and without them one cannot be saved , for their faith is shown to be dead." Dead faith, is NO faith! This is one reason why the issues are so convoluted in the church. While it is true, we can say...
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Eriel
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The Mystery of God
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The mystery of God Colossians 1:26 [Even] the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 1:27 To whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 1:28 ...
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Law -- Moral Law, Ceremonial laws, health laws etc.
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One of the arguments against those who observe the Sabbath is: They teach that the law is separated into ceremonial, civil, and moral laws, and this artificial division is the reason they keep some of the law and not all of it.... They make it sound like this is some new invention. Yet, Luther, Calvin,...
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The Mystery of Iniquity
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2 Thess. 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: The mystery of "anomia" as if there was no law -- contempt and violation of law, iniquity, wickedness from "anomos nomos = law anomos = without law, against law, departing from the law, a violator of the law, lawless, wic...
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