Incorrect.
The law written on stone is not the law written on our hearts.
You said "As the new covenant states " There cannot be a new covenant if the old covenant never was fulfilled. You teach one continuous law. Therefore there is no new law.(your teaching not mine)
Hebrews 8:6-13 = Hebrews 9:15,
- but now hath He obtained a more excellent ministry by how much also He is the mediator of a better covenant which was established upon better promises...for finding fault with them He saith Behold the days come saith the Lord when I will put My laws into their mind and write them on their hearts.. in that He saith a new covenant He hath made the first old and that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away
- and for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament
that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the
first testament
they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance
Old covenant, old testament, new covenant, new testament
Both covenants contain Gods law.
The old law of Moses is replaced with the new law of Christ.
Likewise both testaments contain Gods law as covenant and testament is one in the same.
Again, your ignorance of spiritual matters betrays your lack of a spiritual life. Only a spiritual man can understand spiritual matters. The Law of Moses is type and shadow of the Holy Spirit who will reside in the believes life through that Spirit who is the Law of Moses who is also the Author of the Law of God in both covenants (Mosaic and New.) God deals with the conscience of the believer from within the believer and His Law is that Law He promised to put in the inward parts of His born-again people. This is the basis of our justification. Because Jesus fulfilled all the commands of the Mosaic Law, and He is the One to whom God imparts His life in the believer, God's people do not obey the Law written on stone in which conviction for sin is done without the believer through the testimony of two or three persons, but that conviction for any sinful acts committed by a born-again believer occurs within the believer, God deals with that person from within and conviction is done by the Holy Spirit Himself within the believer. One can be sensitive to the Spirit or habitual sin causes a defilement or ever seared conscience in which judgment as consequence for sin results outwardly. The New Covenant is only the Mosaic Covenant fulfilled by Christ Jesus. Do you even understand what is being attested to when one calls out Christ Jesus in contrast to Jesus Christ? In the Name of Jesus (the) Christ is focus on the man, humanity, and of the flesh - glorified flesh. When the Name of Christ Jesus is found in the writ the focus is on the Spirit or Anointing of the Person who comes in the Name of the LORD. This is why the Name of the Son of God/Son of Man is written out as either Jesus Christ or Christ Jesus. He is the God (Christ) -man (Jesus.) But you understand none of this. You are trying to support the Law of Christ (Law of Moses) and at the same time are antinomian (against Law) of which the Holy Spirit is the Personification of the Law of God written on stone. There is no new Law spoken of in the New Testament but the Old Law which hasn't changed, but the person has changed through the new birth. Thus, his or her association to God's Law is the same Law but now that the natural man has been boirn-again that person has become a spiritual creation as the Son of God has fulfilled the Law of Moses and now the Law has taken on a spiritual nature in the spiritual man/woman. This is why Saul states:
14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy,
so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: Acts 24:14.
And others testified that Saul as a born-again Christian lived still according to the Law of Moses:
22 What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together:
for they will hear that thou art come.
23 Do therefore this that we say to thee:
We have four men which have a vow on them;
24
Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing;
but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law. Acts 21:22–24.
A born-again Christian well known for his adherence to the Law of Moses? He practiced purification law and shaved his head. This is the mark of a Nazarene vow. But what is the testimony of others who knew him? He walked orderly and kept the Law. You cannot argue against that. This was the same for every born-again Christian in the decades before the destruction of the Temple. James, Peter, John, they all kept the Law of Moses. The difference was that when the Holy Spirit of Promise PROMISED TO ISRAEL (Joel) descended from heaven upon the eleven disciples in the upper room, and later the three thousand Jews on the street below, natural Olive tree Israel became spiritual Olive tree Israel that day.
Romans 7:4-6,
- wherefore my brethren ye also are become dead to the law(old law of Moses) by the body(church) of Christ that ye should be married to another even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God
- but now we are delivered from the law(old letter i.e. old law) that being dead wherein we were held that we should serve in newness of the Spirit(new law of Christ) and not in the oldness of the letter(law of Moses)
Incorrect.
If your doctrine of only one continuous law is correct.
Then we are dead to the that one and only law.
Do you even understand what you wrote here?
Let me repeat it:
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that
she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become
dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be
married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held;
that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. Romans 7:2–6.
Serve in the newness of the spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
That is exactly what I have been saying. The Law hasn't changed, but the person did.
The Law is spiritual and when we were "in the flesh" (before spiritual birth) it slew us:
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion
by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once:
but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. Romans 7:7–13.
God's Law is eternal. God's Word is the Law given to Israel to lead and guide them from without. This is why there was the Ceremonial Law, to deal with sin before the priests and to then do what was prescribed in the Law. There were laws of retribution - which I know you will disagree - but is the Golden Rule Jesus taught the people. He said, "do unto others as you would want them to do to you."
Well, what is it that we want them to do to us? Exactly what is prescribed in the Law. Do we want them to gouge out our eyes? No, we don't. Because the Law states that if you 'take' my eye God Almighty has given me permission to gouge out yours. Eye for eye. Therefore, if you want to preserve your eye YOU DON"T go after mine.
Verse 12 states "the Law is HOLY, and the commandment HOLY, and JUST, and GOOD."
And before the spiritual birth of a person the reason why the Law "killeth" was because we were "in the flesh." But once we became spiritual beings the Law could not 'touch' us. The Word of God doesn't have an expiration date attached to it. The Abrahamic Covenant was "everlasting."
The Law of Moses was "everlasting."
The New Covenant is "everlasting."
The Law didn't change. We did.