Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mib@geech.ai.mit.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Bible the word of God? Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 90 03:05:31 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: /home/fsf/mib/.organization Lines: 18 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article ta00est@unccvax.uncc.edu (elizabeth s tallant) writes: Yet, this does not mean that we are free from laws. The are still laws of God in existence today. I was hasty in my speech. There are "laws", but they are completely unrelated to salvation, and if we are following them "because God told us to" then we are missing the point. The NT "laws" are a description of what we will want to do because of the presence of God in our hearts. If the NT "proscriptions" are the reason we do them, it is better to avoid the rules entirely until they are a spontaneous effusion from our soul. -- Michael I. Bushnell \ This above all; to thine own self be true LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE \ And it must follow, as the night the day, mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu /\ Thou canst not be false to any man. CARPE DIEM / \ Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!