Jack
I have been blessed by many of your posts over the years on pure NCT issues
and your last one was no exception. It isn't our relationship with the law
that demonstrates if we are pleasing our Lord, rather our relationship with
Christ.
Blessings
Neil
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From: JACKJEFF@... [mailto:JACKJEFF@...]
Sent: 27 November 2004 14:23
To: soundofgrace@...
Subject: [soundofgrace] Re: In law to Christ - Jack to Neil
Neil: I have remarked over and over again for many years that profound
theology is to be found in what the translators have enclosed in parentheses
("The Theology of the Parentheses"???). 1 Cor. 9:21 is a classic case. Our
conclusion from this text should be that our relationship to the law is not
one of "underness" to an externally written code, or one of "withoutness" as
in true antinomianism, but one of "inness" to a King/Prophet/Priest to whom
we have been joined as a mediating Substitute. We are one with him, "in
Him", and He dwells within us. This personal, relational "inness" is the
only appropriate New Covenant answer to the question of our relationship to
the "Law" this side of the Crucifixion. 2 Cor. 3 makes this very clear.
When someone remarks, "What about the Law of God?", our response might well
be, "What about my indwelling Savior, the Son of God?"
Soli Deo Gloria,
John T. "Jack" Jeffery
<< 1 Cor. 9:21 "To those not having the law I became like one not having the
law (though I am not free from Good's law but am under Christ's law), so as
to win those not having the law. (NIV) I know the context here is Paul
living free from the constraints of law in order to win non Jews, however it
is missed that in every translation of this verse, translators miss the mark
when they translate "under Christ's law" when it is literally "in law to
Christ". NCT is not antinomianism and I fear that all too often NCT's are
perceived as being such by CT's. >>
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