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Originally Posted by Esaias
" 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."
Already addressed previously, "works of the law" is now and was then a Jewish idiom for rabbinic halacha, not the written commandments of the Pentateuch. Not understanding the actual meaning of terms used in the Bible leads to faulty conclusions. Paul was not saying those who obey God's commandments are under a curse. The subject in Galatians is JUSTIFICATION, not "shall we obey God?" |
I did not say that he said obedience to the commandments puts one under a curse. I meant that one cannot obey the commandments, which is why Paul substantiated his claim that anyone under law is under a curse. For him to say that the law made a declaration that failure to keep it puts one under a curse, and then say anyone under law is under a curse, is to actually say that nobody is able to keep it without failure.
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And by the way, Paul's point is those who are "of the works of the law" DO NOT OBEY GOD.
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Amen. Which means no one can try to keep the law and succeed.
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That's why they are under the curse, they seek justification by legal means apart from Christ, which is an impossibility. But again, the subject is NOT "why Christians are free to disobey God's instructions".
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No. If they could keep it, they would LIVE. Paul contrasts LIFE from DEATH all through
Romans 7 and he did the same thing in
Gal 3 becuase he is basing his terms on
Lev 18:5. Keep the law perfectly AND YOU WILL LIVE. That is why it do's undos strange to us to read that the law was used by sin to be a weapon to kill Paul, and yet we know Paul was writing, so how could sin have killed him? The DEATH here is the same death Ep 2:1 speaks about. Dead in trespasses and sins. And instead of dying, you willl live if you successfully keep the law according to
Lev 18:5. I do not know how in the world this Halacha Judaic idea ever crept into the fray.
No one said we are free to disobey law.
Try to imagine that I am right and that Paul had to deal with the same accusations and misunderstandings thatI am getting from you when he wrote:
Rom 3:7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
Rom 3:8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Rom 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Rom 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.