Hello,
I am a reformed baptist, but many of my supporting churches are "New Covenant Theology" baptists.
They seem to mainly speak of the law as a condemning tool instead of acknowledging also a 3rd use (the normative use) of the law as well, and thus reject the Sabbath (I guess because they believe that all those rules are still in effect from Old Testament Israel).
Help me out.
I have responded thusly: "Why would 9 of the 10 commandments now still be applicable but not the 4th?"
He replied thusly:
"Have you listened to Paul lately concerning that which was written on the tables of stone? "The ministry of death," "the ministry of condemnation," "that which is done away," "that which...had no glory," 2 Cor. 3. The 9 are in play on Christ's authority, as with the marriage ordinance, not Moses."
Then also he replied:
"Other than Sabbath keeping, can you name a single moral law incumbent upon the NT believer that is not affirmed clearly in the NT but rests solely on the authority of Moses?"
and again,
"Jesus Christ is my Law-Giver. If He comanded it either directly or through one of His apostles, I fully receive it as my duty. If He did not......"
(p.s. I was going to reply to his question with the answer "bestiality" but maybe you all have better answers).....
I am a reformed baptist, but many of my supporting churches are "New Covenant Theology" baptists.
They seem to mainly speak of the law as a condemning tool instead of acknowledging also a 3rd use (the normative use) of the law as well, and thus reject the Sabbath (I guess because they believe that all those rules are still in effect from Old Testament Israel).
Help me out.
I have responded thusly: "Why would 9 of the 10 commandments now still be applicable but not the 4th?"
He replied thusly:
"Have you listened to Paul lately concerning that which was written on the tables of stone? "The ministry of death," "the ministry of condemnation," "that which is done away," "that which...had no glory," 2 Cor. 3. The 9 are in play on Christ's authority, as with the marriage ordinance, not Moses."
Then also he replied:
"Other than Sabbath keeping, can you name a single moral law incumbent upon the NT believer that is not affirmed clearly in the NT but rests solely on the authority of Moses?"
and again,
"Jesus Christ is my Law-Giver. If He comanded it either directly or through one of His apostles, I fully receive it as my duty. If He did not......"
(p.s. I was going to reply to his question with the answer "bestiality" but maybe you all have better answers).....