{"id":60363,"date":"2023-04-19T21:49:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T02:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=60363"},"modified":"2023-04-28T14:27:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T19:27:33","slug":"relating-mosess-law-to-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=60363","title":{"rendered":"Relating Moses\u2019s Law to Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the New Testament speaks of God\u2019s \u201claw,\u201d it almost always refers to Moses\u2019s law or law-covenant.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> This law is one expression of God\u2019s eternal law, which grows out of his unchanging, righteous character. The eternal law manifests itself in different institutional and covenantal forms through the timeline of redemptive history. Indeed, those institutional and covenantal changes mark off one era of redemptive history from another. For example, God\u2019s command for the first couple not to eat from the tree of knowledge pertaining to good and evil reveals the outworking of his eternal law at that moment, but it doesn\u2019t directly bind us today. We, thus, can\u2019t just say, \u201cGod\u2019s law is eternal, so let\u2019s apply that Garden command directly to us.\u201d Rather, we need to do the tough work of figuring out how or in what sense such a law would apply.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same principle applies to the Mosaic law, which clarified the way in which God\u2019s eternal law was to govern ancient Israel at that particular time in history. The law through Moses was distinctive from anything that governed previous generations, and God gave it to ancient Israel and not to every nation on earth. For Christians today,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does Moses\u2019s law apply to believers today when so much has changed with Christ\u2019s coming, not least of which is that we are part of the new covenant and not the old?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":791,"featured_media":60368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[322],"class_list":["post-60363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9marks","tag-preaching-theology","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Picture1-1-1.png?fit=470%2C261&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60369,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60363\/revisions\/60369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}