Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: gilham@csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: "Laws that are not Good" (Ezekiel 20) Message-ID: Date: 5 May 91 04:19:17 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA. Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Tom Blake writes: ---------------------------------------- How are we to decide which laws/commands are the good laws/commands of the Lord? What are we to use as a guide? How do we go about applying it? ---------------------------------------- I tend to take a more radical view than this, as found in Galatians 5.18: If you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. The quandry over which law to follow is short-circuited; righteousness becomes the manifestation of the Spirit -- the fruit of the Spirit against which there is no law. ``But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.'' F. F. Bruce said that the idea that we are not under the law for salvation, but we are under it for living, is NOT found in the theology of Paul (PAUL -- APOSTLE OF THE HEART SET FREE). -- -Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com