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We must attend to the well-known division which distributes the whole law of God, as promulgated by Moses, into the moral, the ceremonial, and the judicial law.Institutes
All Christians accept that Christ came to fulfill the law, but what did he mean when he said so in Matthew 5:17? Despite saying in the same breath that he did not come to abolish the law, some interpretations of 'fulfill' demand nothing less than the abolition of the law, leaving us with a Teacher who spoke in unfathomable riddles. In addition, when interpreters look at Matthew 5 in one of several self-imposed contextual microcosms it leads to stifled portrayals of Christ's fulfillment of the law.https://kevinfiske.wordpress.com/tag/threefold-division/
The wholesale rejection of the value of this categorisation is premature... only given this premise does Jesus' insistence that he fulfils rather than abolishes the law make sense (Mt. 5:17-20).The Holy Spirit, 164
While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others.
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
The things that we love tell us what we are.
We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.
Beware the man of a single book.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Theology is taught by God, teaches of God, and leads to GodUnknown
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