Setanta wrote:Intrepid wrote:Of course, I cannot answer why some in the U.S. fight for the 10 commandments to be in public buildings. I suspect it has more to do with power than with Christianity.
This is assuredly so--i can't prove it, but i'm nevertheless certain that you are correct in that assumption.
As for the rest of your post, you have asserted that Paul's word shows that Christians are no longer under Mosaic Law. You then provide a series of quotes, none of which substantiate your contention. If you have quotes from Romans, Galatians or Corinthians which you claim clearly demonstrate that Christians are no long under Mosaic Law, perhaps you might provide them. If you assert it is proven from the quotes you have provided (which were from Matthew, Mark and Luke), then you have both failed to provide the proof you allege, and you have inferentially suggested that Mosaic Law
does not enjoin one to love one's neighbor, and in fact, that the opposite were the case, else a denial of Mosaic Law would not necessarily lead to loving one's neighbor. Or, of course, the quotes you provided can be considered simply to have been non sequiturs.
Your logic here fails altogether.
My only purpose for posting for this at all was because Arella Mae did not provide information as requested. I was just trying to provide some food for thought on the matter.
I will provide a few of the verses that I was referring to which allude to the subject.
Galatians 3:10-13 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.
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.
Galations 3:24-25 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Titus 2:11-12. For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age
The claim that we are not under mosaic law was not originally mine, but I could see some validity in it and that is the only reason I posted a response.
No, there are and always will be the original Ten Commandments. Actually, it's not the "day" itself that we are to keep set aside for the Lord. I believe that we are to worship the Lord everyday. I am sure you have heard the phrase that "Jesus is the Sabbath?"
