All these Romanist/Arminianist contextual reworkings have been exhaustively treated by reformed and proto reformed writings for 500+ years. Sermon audio has great resources available too. This squabbling is senseless. People just need to diligently study the Scriptures.
There's no excuse for laziness. Exegesisis is hard. The world "all" is dictated by .... wait for it.... context. All categories of people doesn't mean all people individually. Americans are so individualistic that they can't understand corporate usages of the word "all." Get a biblical dictionary and concordance for the word "world." It has more than a half dozen meanings. Please stop being lazy.
Makes perfect sense Jim. Why have laws at all? Heck, why pay people salaries? Obviously people don't respond to incentives and disincentives. Instead of carelessly saying something so crazy why not ask yourself. .. "perhaps abortion laws are too relaxed to be effective?"
Replacement theology is a strawman. The church did not replace Israel, it was Israel. The gentiles were "grafted on" as Paul writes. The church has subsumed a man (Adam), a family (Abrahams), a Tribe (Jacobs sons), and a nation (Israel). It is now transnational and multiethnic, incorporating even the Jews.
I'm not a Mormon or Muslim (or Romanist). I spoke facetiously because I too recognize the inadequacy of moralist and the poison of phariseeism. Drunkenness is a blight, and stumbling the brethren is worse, but moralism is the expressway to hell.
CF, we do over regulate, and that's an understatement. Perhaps if we regulated the important things with great zeal and tenacity, we wouldn't need to worry about the minor things. I do support all three uses of the Law of God. The weak should be protected from victimizing activities, but not as a substitute for preaching the Good News
There's nothing to "get over." Stealing isn't virtuous and charity isn't charitable if it's compulsory. This isn't the states God- mandated jurisdiction.
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