<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]First of all, are you going to bifurcate the "law" of Christ for the "law" which was of God throughout the history of mankind?</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br>What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If you can bifurcate the Mosaic law (cf. your reference to Law: Civic, Ceremonial and Moral by Richard Alderson.) then I can do the same. And at least I have support for my position, since we are under the New Covenant, not the Mosaic Covenant.<br><br>And I disagree completely with your statement that the "division of the Mosaic law ... is a legitimate designation". Deuteronomy 28 is a good place to start.<br><br>To answer the question, "Are Christians no longer bound to avoid adultery, ..."; define "bound". In particular, bound by what? I need no law to tell me that it is wrong, because I happen to love my wife.<br><br>The statement "without law, love is inexpressible" is backwards. The true statement is "without love, [the] law is inexpressible".<br><br>The context for our not being under law is really Romans 7:<br><br><blockquote>Therefore, my brethren, you also [color:red]were made to die to the Law</font color=red> through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at workin the members of our body to bear fruit for death. But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.</blockquote><br><br>Paul's point being the death breaks the jurisdiction of the Law -- and we died with Christ.<br><br>Peter was told to eat things contrary to the Mosaic law after the Crucifixion and Resurrection because of the principle of Romans 7, that death breaks the jurisdiction of the Law; not because the Law is divided into several parts, some of which are no longer applicable.<br><br>
