The Qur'anic Exegesis & Analysis have been revealing some very insightful scientific thoughts about some of the contents of the koran. But I see some significant issues which seem to be missing from the author's treatise.
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The Qur'anic Exegesis & Analysis have been revealing some very insightful scientific thoughts about some of the contents of the koran. But I see some significant issues which seem to be missing from the author's treatise.
Unwittingly Muslims are repeating the same fatal mistake Israel made when they rejected Jesus as the Savior, and the life of their Jewish economy.
An opportunity to learn from Bible historical experience
In no uncertain terms God warns us in 1 Corinthians 10:5-6 that "Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted."
No Christ, no salvation
Type was about to meet anti-type in the Jewish economy. Jesus, the Lamb of God who takest away the sin of the world (John 1:29) was about to be offered as the Ratifier of the New Covenant of grace (Isaiah 49:8, 1 Corinthians 11:25). Will Israel accept Him as heir Savior from sin?
"I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he (Ex 3:14), ye shall die in your sins." John 8:24.
Paul's desire and prayer: that Israel might be saved.
"Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth" Romans 10:1-4.
Why is Christ the end of the law for everyone that believeth?
"We see, then, that as one act of sin exposed the whole race of men to God's judgment and condemnation, so one act of perfect righteousness presents all men freely acquitted in the sight of God. One man's disobedience placed all men under the threat of condemnation, but one man's obedience has the power to present all men righteous before God."
Romans 5:18-19.
Grace is a bigger thing than the Law. It imputes and imparts the merits of Christ's righteousness (sinlessness) to the believer by faith. God sees the believer as sinless because he sees his own moral character in the believer. In the law court in heaven, Christ is an advocate (lawyer) and the high priest (mediator) for his people.
"Now we find that the Law keeps slipping into the picture to point the vast extent of sin. Yet, though sin is shown to be wide and deep, thank God his grace is wider and deeper still! The whole outlook changes - sin used to be the master of men and in the end handed them over to death: now grace is the ruling factor, with righteousness as its purpose and its end the bringing of men to the eternal life of God through Jesus Christ our Lord"
Romans 5:19-20, Phillips.
No questions asked; come one, come all--Muslims, Buddhists included.
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial (Satan)? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."
2 Corinthians 6:14-18
CITIZEN 8 years ago
You write so well, but you seem to lack a holistic understanding of the the bible you seek to preach. As good Christians will you abandon what Jesus himself said and follow what Paul said?
Jesus said: "Do not think that I ... read full comment
You write so well, but you seem to lack a holistic understanding of the the bible you seek to preach. As good Christians will you abandon what Jesus himself said and follow what Paul said?
Jesus said: "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. 18"For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19"Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.…" Mathew 5:17-19
Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, saying: "The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them.…Mathew 23:1 to 3
Jesus gave one clear condition here; UNTIL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS AWAY. He did not say until he was crucified. The law of God remains the law; that is what the bible preaches. Any skewing from this fact is a clear massage of the facts. You can use a different frame work to preach the end of law; but certainly not the bible.
Legos 8 years ago
If Christ is the end of the law for those who believe, why then do you condemn homosexuals and lesbians who believe in Christ? Is it not double standards. If the law of moses is abrogated for Christ sake and Christ died for t ... read full comment
If Christ is the end of the law for those who believe, why then do you condemn homosexuals and lesbians who believe in Christ? Is it not double standards. If the law of moses is abrogated for Christ sake and Christ died for the sins of mankind then there is no need for the bible to preach sin because it is the law that distinguish between sin and righteousness. You can not build a house without foundation. Can you?
kano 8 years ago
THE THREEFOLD USE OF THE LAW
by R.C. Sproul
Every Christian wrestles with the question, how does the Old Testament law relate to my life? Is the Old Testament law irrelevant to Christians or is there some sense in which ... read full comment
THE THREEFOLD USE OF THE LAW
by R.C. Sproul
Every Christian wrestles with the question, how does the Old Testament law relate to my life? Is the Old Testament law irrelevant to Christians or is there some sense in which we are still bound by portions of it? As the heresy of antinomianism becomes ever more pervasive in our culture, the need to answer these questions grows increasingly urgent.
The Reformation was founded on grace and not upon law. Yet the law of God was not repudiated by the Reformers. John Calvin, for example, wrote what has become known as the “Threefold Use of the Law” in order to show the importance of the law for the Christian life.1
The first purpose of the law is to be a mirror. On the one hand, the law of God reflects and mirrors the perfect righteousness of God. The law tells us much about who God is. Perhaps more important, the law illumines human sinfulness. Augustine wrote, “The law orders, that we, after attempting to do what is ordered, and so feeling our weakness under the law, may learn to implore the help of grace.”2 The law highlights our weakness so that we might seek the strength found in Christ. Here the law acts as a severe schoolmaster who drives us to Christ.
A second purpose for the law is the restraint of evil. The law, in and of itself, cannot change human hearts. It can, however, serve to protect the righteous from the unjust. Calvin says this purpose is “by means of its fearful denunciations and the consequent dread of punishment, to curb those who, unless forced, have no regard for rectitude and justice.”3 The law allows for a limited measure of justice on this earth, until the last judgment is realized.
The third purpose of the law is to reveal what is pleasing to God. As born-again children of God, the law enlightens us as to what is pleasing to our Father, whom we seek to serve. The Christian delights in the law as God Himself delights in it. Jesus said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments” (John 14:15). This is the highest function of the law, to serve as an instrument for the people of God to give Him honor and glory.
By studying or meditating on the law of God, we attend the school of righteousness. We learn what pleases God and what offends Him. The moral law that God reveals in Scripture is always binding upon us. Our redemption is from the curse of God’s law, not from our duty to obey it. We are justified, not because of our obedience to the law, but in order that we may become obedient to God’s law. To love Christ is to keep His commandments. To love God is to obey His law.
Summary
1. The church today has been invaded by antinomianism, which weakens, rejects, or distorts the law of God.
2. The law of God is a mirror of God’s holiness and our unrighteousness. It serves to reveal to us our need of a savior.
3. The law of God is a restraint against sin.
4. The law of God reveals what is pleasing and what is offensive to God.
5. The Christian is to love the law of God and to obey the moral law of God
kano 8 years ago
God purchased the believer's new life of a Christ-centered life with His Son's life. The Son came to our world to restore the image of God-likeness which Adam lost by sin. Remember "sin is the transgression of God's law" (1 ... read full comment
God purchased the believer's new life of a Christ-centered life with His Son's life. The Son came to our world to restore the image of God-likeness which Adam lost by sin. Remember "sin is the transgression of God's law" (1 John 3:14).
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn (judge) the world; but that the world through him might be saved." John 3:16-17.
Grace is the means by which we are saved from the condemnation (judgment) of the law (Ephesians 2:8). It was never intended to take the place of the law.
"Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified (righteous) in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." Romans 3:20.
We are dead to sin not by the law, but by grace.
"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace (unmerited favor) may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?" Romans 6:1-3
Grace as a sovereign act of God which provides the believer with the unmerited righteousness of Christ in 1.Justification --freedom from the penalty of sin 2. Sanctification--
freedom from the power of sin in the daily life 3. a hope in God's power to free the believer of the very presence of sin by destroying Satan, and removing sin in the hereafter.
Family Bible Notes
Romans 10:4 Christ as the end of the Law.
The end of the law for righteousness; the true end of the law is to give eternal life; but to fallen sinful men it becomes the occasion of death. Chap Ro 7:10. Christ, by delivering those who believe on him from both the condemnation of the law and the reigning power of sin, brings them into a state of eternal life, and thus accomplishes the end of the law. That righteousness which men vainly seek by their own works, they may freely attain by believing in Christ. They may also in this way be led from the heart to yield an obedience to the law, which they otherwise never would have rendered; and to perform works which will receive a gracious and abundant reward.
A. T. Robertson's Word Pictures
Romans 10:4
The end of the law (telos nomou). Christ put a stop to the law as a means of salvation (Ro 6:14; 9:31; Eph 2:15; Col 2:14) as in Lu 16:16. Christ is the goal or aim of the law (Ga 3:24). Christ is the fulfilment of the law (Mt 5:17; Ro 13:10; 1Ti 1:5). But here (Denney) Paul's main idea is that Christ ended the law as a method of salvation for "every one that believeth" whether Jew or Gentile. Christ wrote finis on law as a means of grace.
TALK TRUTH 8 years ago
All you have done is nothing but deductive reasoning. There is no authoritative dogma from Christ himself that tells you what you seek to aver.
Get real kano, and stop confusing yourself with the cyclical work of literatu ... read full comment
All you have done is nothing but deductive reasoning. There is no authoritative dogma from Christ himself that tells you what you seek to aver.
Get real kano, and stop confusing yourself with the cyclical work of literature of some sort of people who used their own inspiration to try to deduce so many things from Christ, which Christ did not really say or mean.
Once upon a time, Jesus was asked by a certain ruler what he must do to be saved. Now listen to what Jesus told him.
A ruler questioned Him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone. "You know the commandments, 'DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DO NOT MURDER, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER.'"…
Jesus did not say just believe in me as your personal Saviour. Or you shall be saved by grace and not by the law.
Yes God's grace can not be underestimated, but you can not also enter examinations hall and refuse to make attempts at the questions and hope to get an A because you feel the examiner knows how difficult the questions are. Does it make sense?
So long as the scriptures continue to preach sin the law will continue to be effective. If there is no law there is no judgment;for on what basis then will God judge mankind?
The truth of the whole matter is;
1. Jesus said he did not come to abolish the; contrary to the teaching of present day evangelists.
2. Jesus commanded his disciple and followers to observe the commandments; the key to their salvation.
3. He went on to say any one reject the commandments will be least in the kingdom of God.
The essence of Christ mission when he said "he was the way" was to lead or guide people to know and do God's commandments. Like wise the other prophets sent by God.
If also the only way to go to heaven is to believe that Jesus died for your sins, then the generations from Adam to Moses will as well not make it to heaven. And if that is the case what was the essence of God's commandments.
There is no original sin anywhere. Adam to his sins, and myself for my sins. Exactly what the bible say...
"The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them"Ezekiel 18:20
The GRACE OF GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF OUR SHORT COMINGS IN OBSERVING THE LAW/COMMANDMENTS
But not when we deliberately reject the commandments of God because we feel it will be impossible to follow the law perfectly.
He who have ears let him hear. He who have eyes let him see...
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children" Hosea 4:6
"The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil" Ecclesiastes 12: 13 and 14
The scenario between grace and the law is like a person who is traveling a long distance for God's sake. And when he is just about 10 miles away from the destination he felt tired and can not move further. Then God will say; my good servant is on his way to me. he has done very well but he can not make it. Then he will sent his angels to go and bring he for his reward. That is how the grace of God works.
Not for a lazy man who will say the journey is too far let me keep sitting till God send his men. Will God then leave those those who help themselves and help those who do not?
Did you understand the parable of talents in the gospel? I guess you do not. Because you still sound like a Sunday students of the gospel.
The longest chapter is 286 verses and not 186.
does 6666 ring a bell to readers?
The Qur'anic Exegesis & Analysis have been revealing some very insightful scientific thoughts about some of the contents of the koran. But I see some significant issues which seem to be missing from the author's treatise.
...
read full comment
You write so well, but you seem to lack a holistic understanding of the the bible you seek to preach. As good Christians will you abandon what Jesus himself said and follow what Paul said?
Jesus said: "Do not think that I ...
read full comment
If Christ is the end of the law for those who believe, why then do you condemn homosexuals and lesbians who believe in Christ? Is it not double standards. If the law of moses is abrogated for Christ sake and Christ died for t ...
read full comment
THE THREEFOLD USE OF THE LAW
by R.C. Sproul
Every Christian wrestles with the question, how does the Old Testament law relate to my life? Is the Old Testament law irrelevant to Christians or is there some sense in which ...
read full comment
God purchased the believer's new life of a Christ-centered life with His Son's life. The Son came to our world to restore the image of God-likeness which Adam lost by sin. Remember "sin is the transgression of God's law" (1 ...
read full comment
All you have done is nothing but deductive reasoning. There is no authoritative dogma from Christ himself that tells you what you seek to aver.
Get real kano, and stop confusing yourself with the cyclical work of literatu ...
read full comment