Corpus-Paul

["Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT comcast.net>]

"Harold R. Holmyard III" wrote:
> > Once 
> > this reading of the schema of Gal 3 is entertained, doesn't that make the
> > discussion of whether "until" is temporary or timeless almost superfluous?
>  HH: It is not superfluous but a doctrinal issue important to the
> way people live their lives.  Believers are not under the law, as
> Galatians itself says: Gal. 2:19 For
> through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. Gal.
> 3:10 ¶ All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for
> it is written:  "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything
> written in the Book of the Law." Gal.
> 4:21 ¶ Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not
> aware of what the law says?
> Gal. 4:22 For it is written that Abraham
> had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
> Gal. 4:23 His son by the slave woman was
> born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the
> result of a promise.
> Gal. 4:24 ¶ These things may be taken
> figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from
> Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
> Gal. 4:25 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai
> in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she
> is in slavery with her children.
> Gal. 4:26 But the Jerusalem that is above
> is free, and she is our mother.Gal. 4:27
> For it is written:  "Be glad, O barren woman, who bears no children;
> break forth and cry aloud, you who have no labor pains; because more are
> the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband."
> Gal. 4:28 ¶ Now you, brothers, like
> Isaac, are children of promise. Gal.
> 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law. 1Tim.
> 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but
> for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy
> and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,1Tim.
> 1:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind,
> for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other
> thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

I feel I need to note, Harold,  that the manner in which you buttress your argument, by  proof-texting,  is not an acceptable manner of argumentation on this list.  Posts from you -- or from any one -- who try to make their case in this way  will not be accepted.

Jeffrey Gibson
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