by Greg Gibson. It list seven popular views and which laws they say must be
obeyed:
Popular Views |
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Orthodox Judaism |
All OT and no NT Laws: 1) Decalogue 2) Temple 3) Priests, |
Roman Catholicism |
Some OT and all NT Laws: 1) Decalogue 2) Priests, sacrifices, 3) State-Church Theocracy 4) Infant Members 5) All NT Laws |
Theocracy, Reformed Covenant Theology |
Some OT and all NT Laws: 1) Decalogue 2) State-Church Theocracy 3) Infant Members 4) All NT Laws |
Non-Theocracy, Reformed Covenant Theology |
Some OT and all NT Laws: 1) Decalogue 2) Infant Members 3) All NT Laws |
Reformed Baptist Covenant Theology |
Some OT and all NT Laws: 1) Decalogue 2) All NT Laws |
New Covenant Theology |
No OT and all NT Laws: 1) All NT Laws |
Antinomianism |
No Laws |
It's good to have you back blogging again.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate citing the table from Gibson's All Old Testament Laws are Cancelled.
The problem comes in by what is meant by "cancelled". A law is a) an external rule that must be followed, and b) contains provisions for the result of breaking a law.
It's certainly true that "b" is cancelled; as St. Paul so eloquently puts it, death ends the jurisdiction of [the] law (any law, not just Mosaic). After all, what can law do to someone who has risen from the dead, never to die again, and who can walk through physical barriers? Not a thing. And so we are in Christ.
"a" is more problematic; "you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength" is certainly something Christians would agree with. However, I would argue that death also ends the jurisdiction of all external rules.
But then that gets me labelled as Antinomian, but I would object in that, yes, while death ends the jurisdiction of external law; the rebirth imparts an internal law. Man is the only one of God's creation that needs an external rule book; the bestowed Spirit of God puts us on internal control.