"Then you’re preaching another gospel.
Because if the Mosaic covenant is still in force for anyone — Jew or Gentile — then Christ died for nothing.
Hebrews 8:13 couldn’t be clearer:
“In speaking of a new covenant, he has made the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.”
I'm rather sure that my point was "Which covenant?" since the book of Hebrews doesn't specify the Mosaic Covenant (i.e. the covenant with Israel). Yet we have the testimony of Jesus:
Do not think that I came to annul the TORAH, but to FIX it (make perfect, or fill in / fill up). Truly I say unto you that until heaven and earth depart, not one letter or dot shall be abolished from the TORAH or the Prophets, because all will COME TO PASS. He who shall transgress one word of these commandments and shall teach others (to do so), shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever upholds and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
- Matthew 5:17-19 Howard (revised)
I find it interesting that Paul called himself the "least."
Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
- Ephesians 3:8 KJV
Now remember, Matthew was written
after the resurrection, and
after 40 days of Jesus teaching the disciples right
before the ascension. One would think that the author of Matthew would have made a notation if something so important as the law passing out of existence had occurred. Jesus gave no indication that such would happen.
There is no active Mosaic covenant today.
Christ fulfilled it and nailed it to the cross (Colossians 2:14).
The author is sorely mistaken.
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;
- Colossians 2:14 KJV
The "handwriting of ordinances" that had been blotted out are the Rabbinical
additions to the TORAH, not the Mosaic Covenant itself, although even in the writings, additions and changes had been made to the TORAH by the scribes, as testified to by Jeremiah:
How can you say, "We are wise, and the TORAH of the LORD is with us," when, in fact, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie?
- Jeremiah 8:8 NRSV
That's why Jesus came to fix it, and provide for the Holy Spirit to fill up people with the TORAH that he taught.
The main element of the TORAH was how to deal with sin and obtain forgiveness. Jesus fixed that part in his teachings (cf. Mat. 6:12 & Luke 11:4) and even Paul (in his early ministry) taught this:
Let it be known to you therefore, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you; by this Jesus everyone who believes is set free from all those sins from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
- Acts 13:38-39 NRSV
The true forgiveness of sins is preached by Jesus, not Moses.
Your claim that Matthew is “for the Jews, not the Church” is pure Scofield fiction, heresy, and blasphemy."
LOL. It's obvious now where this came from. (But I shouldn't presume.)
So unless you’re ready to rip the Sermon on the Mount out of your Bible and hand it to the Sanhedrin — stop dividing the Word of God like a false teacher with a Scofield scalpel.
I totally agree, but how did Jesus say we are to deal with sin in the Sermon on the Mount ?? How
do we obtain forgiveness? I'm not sure the original poster could give me a clear answer.
Paul told Timothy that “All Scripture is God-breathed… profitable for instruction” (2 Tim. 3:16).
I doubt the poster ever read an accurate translation of this verse.
I quite often find great relief that Revelation is not in our canon, and hadn't been in your Roman Catholic canon until 393 AD.
I wonder if the OP of this statement knows where he got the word "Grace" from, or more precisely where he got the definition of "Grace" from. (Hint... Martin Luther.) The Father is gracious to grant us mercy and forgiveness when we ask.
t was from Grace that the Holy Spirit is imparted to help us obey the Law (of Jesus) - this Law that is written on our hearts.
If the Law is written on our hearts through the Grace of God, then how can these not be "mixed" ??
Don’t resurrect covenants Christ fulfilled.
Yeah, ... that's based on a very antinomian (and false) translation. The Greek word PLEROO means to fill in (as a pothole in the road, i.e. fix) or to fill up (as in to pour wine into a cup until it is filled to the top). It doesn't mean to accomplish a set of goals or tick off certain boxes of prophecies.
The mission of Jesus was to both fix the TORAH through
his teachings, and provide a way for us to be filled up with the New Wine of the Holy Spirit so that we can (we are enabled) to follow the TORAH of Jesus.
Not much more to add,
Rhema