Yes, he elevated the understanding of the law. He didn’t come to say drink up
and fornicate on.
Yes, to heaven’s standard unrighteous anger toward your brother is like murder (1 Jn 3:15).
The standard is higher not lower.
So is the higher standard anything like keeping a game score track record going on people who are on some preposterous "TOL heretic's list"?
When we are born again we are made a new creation. A butterfly will not return to the creepy crawly thing he was. He no longer has a sin nature (he’s a new creation) but he is still in the flesh so sin issues can come up from time to time. Will his life be dominated by sin? No, it won’t (Mt 7:20).
The law is on every man’s heart.
Ps 40:8
OT believers cleansed themselves. :granite:
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What is the origin of baptism?
Passover was to be remembered annually (Ex. 12:24–27). Pentecost was observed in Solomon’s time (2 Chr. 8:12, 13).
Would it do any good to point out that all 3 main feasts were to be observed FOREVER, are part of the law, and have been spiritually as well as naturally observed since the events recorded in Acts 2, which by the way since the events described in Acts 2 was supposedly "after" the time of the law and yet was also partaken of by the gentiles too, present a problem for the theory it doesn't exist anymore? Or is that an acceptable elephant in the room too? Peace