Under Law not Grace
If you are looking for a loophole...you are under law not grace.
"And who is my neighbor?" Is not a question looking for clarity, it's looking for a specific definition such that the fleshly mind can find a way around it. Because the nasty little truth about the Law is that no one (but Christ) can live by it. Therefore those claiming to do so are faking it, either by lying or by creating in their mind a loophole by which they see themselves satisfying the Law without actually doing so.
Perhaps this is a factor in why the Christian religion in its epistemological focus on proper propositions runs into a legalistic streak. Rather than seeing Christianity as a relationship and a spiritual union with a Person, the Christian religion sees it as a systematic set of statements that one and those who are true believers must mentally accede to and live by. It is thus systematic lawkeeping, which in itself is a system for law-breaking by way of loopholed delusions.
The Law is there to point you to the sufficiency of Christ; Who is the Person, the Way, the Truth, and the Life. If you are looking for loopholes, you are not looking to Christ and have fallen from grace back down to the Law, which is for the lawless, not for sons who are the righteousness of God in Christ.
"And who is my neighbor?" Is not a question looking for clarity, it's looking for a specific definition such that the fleshly mind can find a way around it. Because the nasty little truth about the Law is that no one (but Christ) can live by it. Therefore those claiming to do so are faking it, either by lying or by creating in their mind a loophole by which they see themselves satisfying the Law without actually doing so.
Perhaps this is a factor in why the Christian religion in its epistemological focus on proper propositions runs into a legalistic streak. Rather than seeing Christianity as a relationship and a spiritual union with a Person, the Christian religion sees it as a systematic set of statements that one and those who are true believers must mentally accede to and live by. It is thus systematic lawkeeping, which in itself is a system for law-breaking by way of loopholed delusions.
The Law is there to point you to the sufficiency of Christ; Who is the Person, the Way, the Truth, and the Life. If you are looking for loopholes, you are not looking to Christ and have fallen from grace back down to the Law, which is for the lawless, not for sons who are the righteousness of God in Christ.
posted by GBT at
Friday, July 22, 2005
