[Faith-talk] The Bible and the Law.

[Mostafa Almahdy via Faith-talk]

Hello.



I appreciate everyone trying to explain.

You all sound genuine in your attempts to express your point, and I
quite appreciate that.

Let us not forget that the text of Matthew is uttered by Jesus, whilst
the text of acts is uttered by others.

My question to Brandon was, can somebody else abrogate what Jesus said
he comes to fulfill?

I want now to comment on the point that sister Linda articulated,
because it is a quite interesting one.

Thank you so much Linda for conveying your contribution, I really appreciate it.

I believe I competently comprehend English.

I never heard of  replace being the synonym of fulfill.

I am not sure though, do we write  English properly here?

Fulfill is interpreted as replace?

 I am afraid but I believe that such interpretation is lingually incorrect.

It does not work from even the metaphorical standpoint.

Fulfillment is to bring an action into completion and fruition.

Whilst replacement is the permutation of something by what equates it
in either its value or significance.

Without being offensive, but I think we need to interpret things in
according to the common sense.

I never claimed I am expert in the Bible.

I am just countenancing my rational standards to determine the
sequential relationship among concepts and their based statements.

If the Mosaic laws were abrogated by the teachings of Jesus, does that
include the condemnation and the decisively prescribed penalty of
lapidation regarding the trespass of homosexuality?

So to be really crystal clear;

Is that dietary tradition which is abrogated or the whole covenant?

I believe we have instigated  a valuable scrutiny, and I am certainly
intrigued to carry on.

I so much enjoy and I quite benefit from constantly interacting on the
faith talk list.

I attentively follow the daily articles of brother Paul, and I learn
quite a lot from the well written essays he posts.

I like the level of English he uses there.

I have been a member of the  list since last August.

I have been tremendously exposed to the Christian devotion and
earnestness about their faith.

I believe we will continue to wholeheartedly disagree on the core of
what we believe.

I hope we continue to do so, whilst showing empathy, honor and respect
to each other.

I suggest that we may schedule  a regular meeting on Skype, in which
we can discuss faith related subjects.

We may seek for mutually agreed upon subjects to begin with.

I am sure we can think of many.

It is faith that brought us together.

Thank you.

Peace, blessings, and much respect from me.

Mostafa.







On 5/28/14, debby phillips <semisweetdebby at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! Well, you make some interesting points.  First of all, in the
> Acts of the Apostles, Peter has a vision where he is told to eat
> of all that is shone him.  (I'm paraphrasing).  He says, I can't
> do that, I've never eaten anything unclean.  He has the vision a
> couple more times.  Then Peter is told by the Lord that there are
> people waiting for him, Gentiles.  At that time, Jews were not
> supposed to even enter the house of a Gentile.  Then, as Paul
> begins preaching to the Gentiles, it comes down to the first
> Church Council and the decision is that Gentiles do not need to
> follow Jewish law, dietary or otherwise.  You can head all of
> this in Chapter 15 of Acts, also in Galatians where Paul tells
> the Gentiles not to let the Judaizers, (that is, those Jewish
> Christians who think that they need to make all Christians follow
> Jewish Law) from destroying them.  That's the beginning, I would
> say.  I'm sure POPPA Bear or someone will articulate this much
> better.    Peace,    Debby
>


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