Friday, February 17, 2006
Death is Demanded
Postulate 3: The ultimate punishment for breaking the Law was death; however, the full penalty was never carried out. (One exception!)
“If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.” (Leviticus 20:10 NIV)
However, consider David and Bathsheba:
“Then David said to Nathan, ‘I have sinned against the LORD.’ Nathan replied, ‘The LORD has taken away your sin. You are not going to die.” (2 Samuel 12:13)
This example is one of many. Postulate 2 said the Law could not be perfectly followed. Therefore, everyone under the Law should have been killed. But they were not. Nevertheless, I do not doubt several Israelites were killed for their sins. However, how many Laws did they break before the one violation had them killed? But the Judge (God the Father) was satisfied when the punishment of the Law was finally carried out completely.
“All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.’ Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, ‘The righteous will live by faith.’ The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, ‘The man who does these things will live by them.’ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.’” (Galatians 3:10-13)
“God presented him [Christ Jesus] as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished … For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering [see Leviticus 4:1-5:13]. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.” (Romans 3:25-26, 8:3-4)
“If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.” (Leviticus 20:10 NIV)
However, consider David and Bathsheba:
“Then David said to Nathan, ‘I have sinned against the LORD.’ Nathan replied, ‘The LORD has taken away your sin. You are not going to die.” (2 Samuel 12:13)
This example is one of many. Postulate 2 said the Law could not be perfectly followed. Therefore, everyone under the Law should have been killed. But they were not. Nevertheless, I do not doubt several Israelites were killed for their sins. However, how many Laws did they break before the one violation had them killed? But the Judge (God the Father) was satisfied when the punishment of the Law was finally carried out completely.
“All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.’ Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, ‘The righteous will live by faith.’ The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, ‘The man who does these things will live by them.’ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.’” (Galatians 3:10-13)
“God presented him [Christ Jesus] as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished … For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering [see Leviticus 4:1-5:13]. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.” (Romans 3:25-26, 8:3-4)
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