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[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **4/25/14 12:05 pm**

You even mock forgiveness. Sad but unsurprising.

Friendly Face Posts: 356 **4/25/14 12:12 pm**

Golf Cart Mafia Capo Posts: 2960 **4/25/14 12:12 pm**

This really isn't that hard to understand. The 10 commandments are required, but they are comprised in just two:

Matthew 22:36-40
36Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38This is the first and great commandment.
39And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

If we do these two things, the 10 commandments are observed.

Simple!

Acts Enthusiast Posts: 1741 **4/25/14 12:27 pm**

Friendly Face Posts: 356 **4/25/14 12:33 pm**

Acts-dicted Posts: 9027 **4/27/14 2:06 pm**

This question has already been asked and answered in Acts 15:

Acts 15:5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed , saying , That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses. 6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter. 7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up , and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe . 8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness , giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. 10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear ? 11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved , even as they. 12 Then all the multitude kept silence , and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them. 13 And after they had held their peace , James answered , saying , Men and brethren, hearken unto me: 14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. 15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written , 16 After this I will return , and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down ; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up : 17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things. 18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. 19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: 20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

It's remarkable that they were still working through this.

Peter - don't put the unbearable yoke of the Law on them.
James - don't trouble them with the Law
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Acts-dicted Posts: 8065 **4/27/14 3:08 pm**

Ultimately the content of the moral Law is what God deems to be acceptable behavior and is a condensed version of the type of obedient fruit he is trying to work out in our lives. In the Old Testament it was written in stone and was used to try to change behavior from the outside in. In the New testament it is written on our hearts by the Spirit at the new birth and transforms us from the inside out.

So yes, us obeying the moral Law was so important to God that he became a man, instituted a New Covenant by his shed blood at the cross, and gave us his own moral character by indwelling and regenerating us by His spirit. It was God's esteem of his own moral code that drove him to do all of that.
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Acts-dicted Posts: 9027 **4/27/14 3:43 pm**

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