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No offense intended at all, but I really got a chuckle from this last reply you posted to Joe. Why? Well, because you are so ingrained in your Dispensationalism which bifurcates the Bible into 7 distinct parts yet you chide Joe and those of us who hold to a ONE COVENANT OF GRACE and the perpetuity of the ONE MORAL LAW OF GOD, for dividing God's laws into 3 distinct parts; Moral, Ceremonial and Civil. Again, you are insistent that Israel and the Church are totally separate entities, each having their own set of laws, yet insist that the law cannot be bifurcated??

When Cain was punished for murdering his brother Abel, this was the same law which all men until Moses were under and punished for breaking. The commandment forbidding murder as given in the Ten Commandments was NOT a "different" law but the one and same law which was in effect from the time of Adam until then. When Christ spoke of the depth of the sixth commandment (Matt 5:21-23), He was iterating and showing the perpetuity of this same law. The Moral Law of God is an expression of God's holy character and thus it cannot be abrogated due to some man-made system of "dispensations". However, there are laws, e.g., the dietary laws which were given to the theocracy of Israel for a specific purpose and for a limited time. This is a perspicuous teaching of the inspired Word of God (Acts 10:9ff; 1Cor 8:4ff; Rom 14:1ff; Col 2:20-23; et al). Morality does not change. It is God's perpetual standard by which all men, from the first to the last, are held accountable and upon which they shall be judged. It was this Moral Law which all men are found guilty before God as transgressors; not the Civil or Ceremonial Law. The Lord Christ suffered the penalty for this Moral Law's transgression for those whom the Father gave Him. And it is the very same law which believers are still held accountable to keep unto sanctification. For it is their duty to become as Christ; in holiness, righteousness and purity. (Eph 4:21-26; Col 3:5ff).