Originally posted by Soyeong
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Are you sure that the perfect law is the royal law (2:8)? Is the Torah really the law that gives freedom?
Yes everybody who sins commits lawlessness. But what is the law in this context? (I think it is the moral law)
We disagree on the Torah being perfect
Not so sure about the Law being in consistent high praise
1 Cor 15:56
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...56&version=NIV
Hebrews 10:1
For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year make perfect those who draw near
http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/gwview.cgi?n=3551
Also Colossians 2:13-17
13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,
14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.
17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...+2&version=NIV
The Deut verses teach about killing a false prophet for preaching in the name of other gods and Christ was turning people to God by annulling these obsolete laws and making new commandments.
The Deut verses are essentially saying "I (God) command you to do this, don't listen to him". But can't God command something else through a prophet?
About your last line,
Isn't the Torah part of the Old Covenant?
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