If law is biblically the source & strength of deadly sin, wouldn't adding more law produce more sin & death?
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You are correct.  That is part of where Paul was going in the Romans quotes you cited.
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I would say no.. and I've heard an argument (zealots don't attack me, I've not looked it up, only heard it) that in the bible a man kills a pregnant woman and his sin is killing the woman.. that is his only sin.. not for the death of the child inside her.. which would suggest that in the eyes of God a pregnant woman is one person.
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Good question but no contradiction here.\n\nFirst you are dealing with two different covenants. In the Old Testament to not keep the law was a curse. Jesus came to fulfill the law so those who accept Jesus are under the New Covenant in His blood and therefore are not under the law any longer. Read on in Galatians 3 and you will see the purpose of the law was to bring people to Jesus. \n\nSecond Jesus was cursed on the cross as He took our sin and as He hung on a tree. This curse He took to free us who were cursed by our breaking of God's law. By Jesus dieing on the cross for our sin He fulfilled every sacrificial law in the OT including every law that needed to be kept in order to be right with God. Does this mean we don't keep the law as Christians? Nope. It means as Christians we are saved because Jesus saved us and now we keep the law in obedience to Him but it does not save us as we are already saved in Jesus. Jesus perfectly fulfilled the law (See Romans 8) because we could not so now we place our faith in Him to be saved. \n\nRead all of Galatians 3 then check out Romans 8 and you'll get some further clarification and you'll see that there is no contradiction between what Jesus says and what Paul says. Especially since Paul was inspired by the Holy Spirit. \n\nIn short Jesus fulfilled the law in becoming a curse for us so we would no longer be under the curse of the law. \n\n2 Corinthians 5:21, "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
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Well, according to the Bible, yes.  This is going to be very Lutheran of me, but I've already started, so I may as well explain it as best and briefly as I can.\n\nThe Bible states this: "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and not that of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works that men may boast." (Ephesians 2:8)\n\nThe Bible also sports this nice little phrase "All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me but I will not be brought under the power of any." (I Cor 6:12, I would also like to point out that my version of the Bible uses a more archaic variant of English)\n\nSo, indeed, even a smidgen of faith in Jesus is all that is necessary to save us.  Why?  Because no matter what we do to prove our "sinlessness" to God, in the end it's all pointless.  The most righteous among us eventually become self-righteous, and nearly every good act done in the name of God or one's own self instead of being nice to that person is only another futherance into sin for us.  Pride rears its ugly head even upon the best of us all.  One of the faults of being imperfect is that you are going to give in to sin eventually.  And in God's eyes, a "minor" sin is just as bad as a major sin.  Anger and just being annoyed grants you the same punishment as a mass murderer would recieve.\n\nSo this is justification by faith, we can't save ourselves, so God sends His Son down to uphold the Law perfectly, and give himself as a blood sacrifice for all the rest of humanity, from here to eternity.
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<*> The law was good, it led us to the cross, without it we would not have understood our need fo a savior.\nThe good news is that we do not have to depend on the law for salvation \nWe have a Savior who loves us and died for us.\n\nThe old covenant has been done away with we have a new and better one.
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The path in the old testament is clear. Obediance, contrition, fear\nthe path in the many books that make up the new testament are a little harder to follow. I'd like to think that any God worth his salt would let in everyone innocent of major sin. Why would a God create all these people who never have a chance to learn about Jesus only to condem them to hell? I guess this is the same God who would have wild bears maul 42 children for calling someone "baldy" (2 kings 2:23)
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No there wouldn't be more crime without laws!...............Because if there isn't a law against it,......how can it be a crime!!!!
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Ahhh Wicked Wonder, just the new testament now,\nJesus fulfilled the law by living a sinless life.  Now is another testament.  You are so curious that one would wonder if you were not close to becoming one of us.  Then you could change your Yahoo name.\nNo evolution here, mankind just wouldn't obey the laws, didn't have it in them.  God sent his son to do the job.\nJohn 1:17  For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.\nHebrews 7:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.  \nHebrews 7:25  Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.  \nJesus brought in the New Testament, and he will save you to the uttermost if you ask him to.
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In the real world, no.\n\nSubstitutionary justice is no justice at all...it's sick and it's a cynical way to balance ledgers.  Hell, you see some of that going on in the Middle East with groups killing one another:  Someone looses a child to a rival tribe's assassin, he goes and murders some other member of the rival tribe in revenge, the sibling of the murder victim goes out and machineguns a bus of the first mans' tribe...and it never ends.\n\nThe whole thing started with the notion of blood sacrifice to God to atone for sins...goats, sheep, and so forth.  Did anyone notice that when Cain supposedly offered God some of his hard-grown wheat and Abel offered an animal he had caught, God liked Abel's sacrifice more?  God had a fetish for blood, I guess.  And burning flesh too.  Until Jesus's got spilled, then he suddenly got squeamish about it.  \n\nHe didn't die for anyone's sins:  He was killed because he was politically inconvienent and became a martyr to his own cause.  That's all.  The rest of the nonsense got tacked on later.
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Where SIN abounds, GRACE abounds even more.\n\nThough we have the potetial for evil doing, within us; through JESUS' death on the cross, we now have HOPE of\na better life.
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Generally not...There are religions which would preclude the use of the bible some of which are christian. "Let your yes mean yes and your no mean no for anything beyond this is from the wicked one". Don't remember the exact location but it's from one of Paul's letters. Not all courtrooms are as enlightened though.....
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it may also just be a reality that injustice and unfairness is a quality that is built directly into the " human condition " irregardless of any biblical type myths. and yes it is very possible for the bible to be a complete man-made myth, and that pain,suffering, the struggle for survival,will forever be  a self-perpetuating quality in our existance, the methodes might change .
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No,it doesn't seem more feasible at all.\nThe bible is a collection of thousands of stories..it doesn't have one single storyline,unless the constant reiteration of God's love can be termed a storyline... I'd rather believe that anyday!\nWhat do you think?
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good point.  you've discovered another fatal flaw in the bible.\n\ngod knows the future and the past.  he already knows how everything turns out.  he already knows who exercises free will, who doesn't, and how they exercise it.  he already knows the outcome.\n\nthere is no need for any of this.  he already knows the future and how we all turn out.\n\nit also begs the question...why would a god put things into motion, when he knows the future, an knows he would have to flood the entire earth, killing everyone?  he already knew that was the future, he knew he'd have to do that.  so why set things in motion when you know you eventually have to kill all your children?\n\nand why inspire a bible, so ridiculous and poorly written that, after over 2000 years, less than 30% of the people on earth believe it?\n\nchristianity is total and utter nonsense, and is based on so many fatal flaws in its own theory, myth and certainly fatal flaws in basic logic, i'm surprised people are really ignorant enough to follow it.
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The Bible was not given to us as a basis of government.  We are supposed to apply it to our personal lives.  If more people applied the Bible to themselves (don't steal, lie, commit murder, commit adultery, etc.), the country would be better off because of fewer broken lives and fewer people in prisons.  That is how the Bible should play a bigger part in society.  I think that too many Christians get caught up in trying to turn the Bible into law rather than convincing other individuals to use the Bible's guidance.
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I don't see that there were any babies killed in Numbers 5:11-31. The purpose of the drink was to settle the matter of whether she had committed adultery or not. \n\nThere are many of the laws in the Old Testament (eye for an eye, for instance) that are not required to be executed, but are limits on what can be done to one who harms you. If you put out my eye, I can't kill you for it. I also don't have to demand that you have your eye put out. It's the most I can require of you, but it's not what I am required to exact of you.\n\nIn that day, death was the penalty for adultery. I see this as God's way of protecting women from being stoned to death because a man is jealous. It was a way to prove her innocence. And it was also a deterent to crafty women who thought they could cheat and then deny it and drive their husbands crazy.\n\nHow many people have had a cheating spouse and wished that there had been a truth serum out there somewhere?\n\nThe thing is, that the result is so disgusting, you'd have to be pretty outraged to do it. Outraged enough that you probably would want to kill her whether you had proof or not.\n\nWhether babies were involved in this or not is impossible to prove. Notice in verse 28: "But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she shall be free and may conceive children." Doesn't that sound like the womb is closed?\n\nWhile infertility was not always a sign of separation from God, God closed the wombs of the unfaithful. Genesis 20:8-18
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Does anyone think...would be a more appropriate question.\n\nIt's already too late for all the rapture theories,\nare cloud-y confusion, not clear-ness of charity\nhttp://www.godshew.org/RevelatorySermons8.htm;\n\nFor the last(not just past) millennium had 2 ends,\nand the false end of such false/true ends was Y2K,\nand it notably had a 3 1/2 yr (42 mos) count-down,\nwhich notably began at Grenwich in June of 1996.\n\nIt's now 2006th yr of "third day" is also seventh,\nwhen counting the days in John 1 and John 2:1\nhttp://www.godshew.org/ThirdDay.htm\n\nYou may want to consider global graphs,\ntwo of which did "shoot forth" in 1967\nhttp://www.godshew.org/Graphically.htm;\nAnd the tolerance limit of a Holy Ghost\nis notably only 40 years in Hebrews 3\nhttp://www.godshew.org/Hebrews4.htm\n\nJude 5 reminds grace + law folk\nall got saved + destroyed after,\nsince the law is the destroyer,\nas the horse "death" rode in on.\nWhat follows is "hell" to pay: Rev 6:8,\nfor being sow dog gone Mt 22:36-40 law law.\nhttp://www.godshew.org/TwainShew4.htm#Laws\n\nThe law is not of faith: Gal 3:12\nWhatsoever is not of faith is sin: Rom 14:23.\nSo Love(God) thy neighbor, by "law", is "sin",\nand the biblical penalty for sin is "Death",\nand what follows "Death" is notably "hell".\nSo stop law-imputing-sin for the hell of it.\n\nThe God of all grace make you perfect(merciful)\nafter ye(do err) suffer awhile in yer law law.\n\nThe "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.