ECT Which law did Jesus nail to the cross?

[ThreeAngels]

The word of God says that when Jesus was crucified He blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, Colossians 2:14 "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross." Now just which ordinances that were against us did He take away? The bible answers this question. Moses commanded the Levites, "Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee," Deuteronomy 31:26. Then it is the ceremonial law that was against us, and placed on the side of the ark, that Jesus removed. The ten commandments were placed by Moses inside the ark, see Exodus 40:20, "...he took and put the testimony into the ark..." Nowhere does the bible say that the ten commandments were against us.

 

[Jerry Shugart]

The word of God says that when Jesus was crucified He blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, Colossians 2:14 "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross." Now just which ordinances that were against us did He take away?

One of the meanings of the Greek word translated "ordinances" is "the rules and requirements of the law of Moses" (Thayer's Greek English Lexicon).

Among those requirements is the moral law. It is against us because it condemns us when we sin against it. And this tells us exactly how that law was nailed to the Cross:

"For Christ is the end of law for righteousness to every one that believeth" (Ro.10:4).​

Believers are "justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Ro.3:24_.

 

[DAN P]

The word of God says that when Jesus was crucified He blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, Colossians 2:14 "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross." Now just which ordinances that were against us did He take away? The bible answers this question. Moses commanded the Levites, "Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee," Deuteronomy 31:26. Then it is the ceremonial law that was against us, and placed on the side of the ark, that Jesus removed. The ten commandments were placed by Moses inside the ark, see Exodus 40:20, "...he took and put the testimony into the ark..." Nowhere does the bible say that the ten commandments were against us.

Hi and no one can SEPARATE the CIVIL LAW and the CEREMONIAL from the MORAL LAW as all 3 make up the LAW of MOSES !!

dan p

 

[ThreeAngels]

Hi and no one can SEPARATE the CIVIL LAW and the CEREMONIAL from the MORAL LAW as all 3 make up the LAW of MOSES !!

dan p

God proclaimed the 10 commandments in terrible majesty amid fire, quaking, and thunder from Mount Sinai- Exodus 20:1-22, and later wrote them down with His own finger, Exodus 31:18. In so doing God designed to impress the children of Israel with the holiness of His law. The ceremonial law, on the other hand, was not written by God's finger but Moses wrote it down as God dictated to him. The ceremonial law or symbolic law served as a type of Christ's work in the sacrifices which prefigured His sacrifice. Therefore when Christ's sacrifice was accomplished, the ceremonial law ended. But concerning the law of Ten Commandments the psalmist declares, “Forever, O Lord, Thy word is settled in heaven.” Psalm 119:89. Christ taught, not merely what the claims of God’s law had been, and were then, but that these claims should hold as long as the heavens and the earth remain when He said , “Think not that I am come to destroy the law. . . . Verily I say unto you till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” Matthew 5:17, 18.

 

[ThreeAngels]

Sin is the transgression of the law - 1John 3:4. Transgression of the law has not ceased to be sin on account of the sacrifice of Jesus. Fornicators, idolaters, and Sabbath-breakers are no more accepted with God after the crucifixion of Jesus than they were before. The sacrifice of Jesus proves that God's law is unchangeable in that God would sooner give His Son than change His law to save the sinner. Christ came to, "magnify the law, and make it honourable" - Isaiah 42:21. Upon receiving Christ, God expects every sinner to bear fruit unto righteousness. This fruit is obedience to His law. We are justified by grace but judged by our works. The standard against which our works will be judged is the 10 commandments. "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. " - James 2:24

 

[musterion]

1 Tim 1:5-7, 8-9

 

[ttruscott]

In sum: The wages of sin is death.

 

[john w]

No scripture says that the law was nailed to the cross. See discussion here...

http://theologyonline.com/showthrea...utes-the-Calvinist-Doctrine-of-Predestination

"the handwriting of ordinances" is not a reference to the law, but the "bond indenture"(I am a stock trader).

 

[ThreeAngels]

No scripture says that the law was nailed to the cross. See discussion here...

http://theologyonline.com/showthrea...utes-the-Calvinist-Doctrine-of-Predestination

"the handwriting of ordinances" is not a reference to the law, but the "bond indenture"(I am a stock trader).

The Decalogue as well as the ritual law is from God, that much is clear from the bible. Now when Paul speaking by Inspiration says, "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days," Colossians 2:16, he is clearly showing that some law has been set aside. This is because in the old dispensation God plainly forbade eating certain meats and working on the sabbath days of the ritual law (these sabbath days are not the weekly Sabbath but the sabbaths of the feast days eg the Day of atonement, the Passover, and Pentecost see Lev 23:7; 23:21, 23:27 respectively). Breaking these holy days was sin - working on the day of atonement was punishable by death- and on the Passover the people were required to eat bitter herbs and unleavened bread etc). Then it is manifest that God had removed the laws- ordinance is another word for law in Col 2:16 see Strong's Corcordance Greek 1387- in the Gospel dispensation which He had enjoined upon the Israelites during the Old Testament dispensation. The apostolic church in practice did just that. They did not continue with the sacrifices and observances required under the Mosaic law.

 

[ThreeAngels]

One of the meanings of the Greek word translated "ordinances" is "the rules and requirements of the law of Moses" (Thayer's Greek English Lexicon).

Among those requirements is the moral law. It is against us because it condemns us when we sin against it. And this tells us exactly how that law was nailed to the Cross:

"For Christ is the end of law for righteousness to every one that believeth" (Ro.10:4).​

Believers are "justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Ro.3:24_.

We are still condemned by the law if we sin and don't repent just as much as those living before Christ's crucifixion were. God will no more accept a murderer now than He accepted Cain who murdered before the law of Moses had been given. It was sin even then to murder because the moral law had existed since the foundation of the world. Sin is defined as "the transgression of the law," 1John 3:4. God had warned Cain, "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him," Genesis 4:7.
In the end, only the commandment keepers will enter into heaven because it is written, "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Revelation 22:14; 21:8