| Author | Message | ||
| Max |
Dear Adventist Friend: THE POPE DIDNíT CHANGE THE LAW! JESUS DID! God gave me this insight through Colleen. At the FAF dinner at Cocoís in Redlands after the FAF meeting ********************************* FORMER ADVENTIST FELLOWSHIP 6:45 PM Friday Evenings Fellowship Hall Trinity Evangelical Free Church Reservoir Road Redlands, California Intersection of I-10, Ford Exit EVERYBODY WELCOME! ********************************* we were discussing whether or not the Old Testament law was ìstrongî or ìfeeble.î The person sitting on my right, was questioning my assertion that the law was feeble. ìWhat do you mean by feeble?î he asked. ìIt canít save,î I said. He asked me to explain. And I got into the idea that the New Covenant commandments of Jesus Christ were an IMPROVEMENT on the Ten Commandments of Moses. For example, Christís command of do not hate your brother was an IMPROVEMENT on the Sixth Commandment, ìThou shalt not kill,î meaning murder. He then challenged me on the idea that the law could be changed. I was trying to show how, when Colleen interjected Hebrews 7:12: ìWhen there is a change of the priesthood, there must also be a change of the law.î In context the Law of Moses was changed to accommodate the priesthood of Jesus, who was not of the Levites, by the Law of Moses the only tribe from which priests could come. But, says Hebrews, the law was changed to accommodate the priesthood of Christ, since Christ was ìa priest forever in the order of [non-Levite] Melchizedek.î Hebrews 7:17 quoting Psalm 110 4. Thus Hebrews 7 establishes establishes the principle that the law CAN and HAS been changed! Christís Sermon on Mt. Blessings is basically an IMPROVEMENT on the Ten Commandments. They are improved in two ways: 1. Laws, such as that against murder, were changed and improved by making them mental processes in addition to physical actions. Thus ìmalice aforethoughtî is a breaking of a Commandment of Christ, whereas it is not a breaking of the Sixth Commandment. 2. Christís Commandments omit the onerous and burdensome aspects of the Law of Moses: circumcising, Sabbath-keeping, tithe-paying, people-shunning (ìremnantizing,î ìmark-of-the-beasting,î ìpeculiar-peoplingî), and so on. Therefore it was not the Pope -- as both Adventists and Catholics assert -- who changed the law. JESUS CHANGED IT! Praising God, Max of the Cross |
