Quote from: Lorenzo on July 12, 2009, 12:00:27 PM
There are some of us that teach that tithing is not unecessary, there are some of us that would say that Christ's death and rising of the Cross has pardoned us from the need to observe the LAW, and preach that belief alone is enough. I say to them, that way of ministry and that teaching is erred.
It is in contradiction to what Christ Jesus Tells Us, DIRECTLY:
(Matthew 5:17-19)
17"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
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If we teach Scriptural Doctrine, we have to teach EVERYTHING, and observe everything, teaching the wrong thing---is not only ambivalent, but in contradiction to God's Word.
Christ Came to Fulfill The Law. He specifically tells us not a pen or stroke will be edited from The Law until the Very End.
For anyone to argue otherwise and teaches otherwise, is blaspheming.
Amen.
Hi, regarding this, I've read in the commentaries section on the New American Bible this note about Mt 5: 17-20, it says,
"This statement of Jesus' position concerning the Mosaic Law is composed of traditional material from Matthew's sermon documentation...other Q material..., and the evangelist's own editorial touches. To fulfill the law appears at first to mean a literal enforcement of the law in the least detail: until heaven and earth pass away nothing of the law will pass (18). Yet the "passing away" of heaven and earth is not necessarily the end of the world understood, as in much apocalyptic literature, as the dissolution of the existing universe. The "turning of the ages" comes with the apocalyptic event of Jesus' death and resurrection, and those to whom this gospel is addressed are living in the new and final age, prophesied by Isaiah as the time of "new heavens and a new earth." ... Meanwhile, during Jesus' ministry when the kingdom is already breaking in, his mission remains within the framework of the law, though with significant anticipation of the age to come, as the following antitheses (vv 21-48) show."
This commentary just coincides better with the writings of Paul regarding the Law to the early Christian Churches, than how i understood your statements in the above blue-boxed quote to be.
This has nothing to do with the tithing topic by the way, for I tithe as well, but more a reply to this statement:
"Christ Came to Fulfill The Law. He specifically tells us not a pen or stroke will be edited from The Law until the Very End.
For anyone to argue otherwise and teaches otherwise, is blaspheming."
which to me, sounded as if referring to the Mosaic Law, as to be followed down to the letter. My interpretation of your statement could be wrong brother, so correct me in this, hehe. But as to how I understood it now, it seems to call as blaspheming those who say that the "Mosaic law (to the letter) doesn't really apply to Christians" is unfair because then, St. Paul would be blaspheming when he said, "But now we are released from the law, dead to what held us captive, so that we may serve in the newness of the spirit, and not under the obsolete letter." (Rom. 7:6)
I do believe our faith is not so much in the letter of the law, but in the Spirit of the law, which is love. I do get that Spirit of the Law vibe though from the replies you give, bro. Bran, and God be with you, it was just these particular sentences that I found to be in need of additional input.
