Alex the article your refferenced contained this statement:
In reply to:[color:"blue"]2. Ok, the Law can no longer condemn me. But doesn't it still guide me?
The reply was this:
In reply to:[color:"blue"]This is a common notion held by many Christians. Common ... but wrong.
What usually happens is that the Law is divided into pieces -- usually the Ten Commandments are in one group and the remaining 603 are in the other. Then it is said that Christ fulfilled the 603, but it is up to us to fulfill (or live) the Ten.
But the Law is not divisible as was previously shown. Remember, in Gal. 3:10 Paul wrote:
For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the things written in the book of the law." The Christian who wants to be guided by part of the Law must be guided by all of the Law. But just as the Law has no authority to condemn those who are in Christ, it likewise has no jurisdiction to guide those who are in Christ.
And the Christian who desires to be guided by the Law has forgotten (or not understood) the relationship between law and sin. This was discussed under "What is the purpose of the Law." Remember -- the "power of sin is the law." By turning to law a believer is giving sin the very thing it needs to become more sinful. In an earnest desire to live a more Christ-like life, a believer who does this is actually feeding the "flesh" with the very thing that it needs to energize sin.
If the Law is not my guide then how am I to live? By the power of and by walking with the Holy Spirit. The life that God wants each Christian to live is really quite simple, and quite different from what is expected in many churches!
Our life is to be a life of love. A life of rejoicing. A life of peace between men in all circumstances. A life marked by patience, kindness, and goodness. A life which is gentle and faithful. A life of self-control.
When our life is filled with these things then we are living the true Christian life.
And the source of our Christian life is the Holy Spirit:
... the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. (Gal 5:22-23)
How does this square up with what the London Baptist Confession says
In reply to:[color:"blue"]The London Confession of Baptist Faith, Chapter XIX Of the Law of God
V. The moral law doth for ever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof,[10] and that not only in regard of the matter contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of God the Creator, who gave it;[11] neither doth Christ in the Gospel any way dissolve, but much strengthen this obligation.[12]
10. Rom. 13:8-10; James 2:8, 10-12 11. James 2:10-11 12. Matt. 5:17-19; Rom. 3:31
VI. Although true believers be not under the law as a covenant of works, to be thereby justified or condemned,[13] yet it is of great use to them as well as to others, in that as a rule of life, informing them of the will of God and their duty, it directs and binds them to walk accordingly; discovering also the sinful pollutions of their natures, hearts, and lives, so as examining themselves thereby, they may come to further conviction of, humiliation for, and hatred against, sin;[14] together with a clearer sight of the need they have of Christ and the perfection of His obedience: it is likewise of use to the regenerate to restrain their corruptions, in that it forbids sin; and the threatening of it serve to shew what even their sins deserve, and what afflictions in this life they may expect for them, although freed from the curse and unallayed rigour thereof. These promises of it likewise shew them God's approbation of obedience, and what blessings they may expect upon the performance thereof, though not as due to them by the law as a covenant of works; so as man's doing good and refraining from evil, because the law encourageth to the one and deterreth from the other, is no evidence of his being under the law and not under grace.[15]
13. Rom. 6:14; Gal. 2:16; Rom. 8:1; 10:4 14. Rom. 3:20; 7:7-25 15. Rom. 6:12-14; I Peter 3:8-13
VII. Neither are the aforementioned uses of the law contrary to the grace of the Gospel, but do sweetly comply with it,[16] the Spirit of Christ subduing and enabling the will of man to do that freely and cheerfully which the will of God, revealed in the law, requireth to be done.[17]
16. Gal. 3:21 17. Ezek.36:27
Is not Bob Felts actually postulating antinomian position?
