Is the law eternal?

[Robert]

Originally Posted By: Q.E.D.

I will put my law in their inward parts,....

Originally Posted By: Robert

What law? The principle of agape? Yes..rules? no!

The 10 Commandments.

Q.E.D.

Those are rules.

Turn to Gal 5:14! What does Paul say?

"The entire law is summed up in a single command: 'Love your neighbor as you love yourself.'"

The law is basically one command - love your neighbor in the same way that you naturally, sinfully love yourself.

[Robert]

Turn to Gal 5:14! What does Paul say?

"The entire law is summed up in a single command: 'Love your neighbor as you love yourself.'"

The law is basically one command - love your neighbor in the same way that you naturally, sinfully love yourself.

Now, I'll use Ellen White to back up the Bible. That's how you use her:

"The lover of self is a transgressor of the law." [COL 392]

If you love yourself you are a transgressor!

If you are controlled only by agape "you will have that love which seeks not her own, but another's wealth." [DA 439]

As the Beatles said, "all you need is love" - except the love they sang about was human love, which is self-seeking.

So you don't need a bunch of rules - do this, don't do that. All you need is agape. That's the law written in your mind as a believer. The problem, however, is we have another law - the law of sin (our bent to self).

[12tribes]

The Law is a transcript of the character of God

Psalms 19:7 KJV

(7) The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

Matthew 5:48 KJV

(48) Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Proverbs 6:23 KJV

(23) For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

1 John 1:5 KJV

(5) This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

There are more texts like this that show the Law is a transcript of the character of God. Then what we need to look at is how does it show the character of God? Looking at the letter of the Law we will not see it we need to look at the spirit of the Law to understand.

Romans 7:14 KJV

(14) For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

1 Corinthians 2:14 KJV

(14) But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.