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Sahid
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Date Joined Jun 2004
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Posted 1/14/2007 9:43 PM (GMT -6)

I hadn't noticed this until today:

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. -Matt 5

For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. -Eph 2

The words for "abolish" are different but they mean almost exactly the same thing. So which is it?

Watch me fly. Freedom like wings and I will use them. Freedom like wings and I will spread them wide. - Stavesacre

Starkman
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Date Joined Oct 2001
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Posted 1/18/2007 8:10 AM (GMT -6)

I think what Jesus meant when he said "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law..." was that He did not come as a revolutionary who would cry out, "Down with the law! Cursed be the law. We're free from all that stuff." Rather, He came to absorb the shock of the law; the realization that mankind is hopelessly lost and outside of ever finding peace with God. The law gets abolished in the end, but not from a "Deliver the nation of Israel" revolutionary context.

Starkman

My teacher used to say that whenever he read Scripture, he would always ask the question, "What does this have to say about the character of God?" Working off his thinking, as I read Scripture, I have come to ask, "What does this have to say about the heart and passion of God's desire for relationship with us?

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