The Law is holy

My comments about the church (building or people) have definitely been confusing. I have obviously substituted the meaning I wish, depending on the point I chose to make. I’m sorry you had to wade through that.

I read in a book recently that we have no right to judge a person’s soul but we have a right to judge a person’s actions. Logically, sinful action leads to hell so in a way I did say Britt was going to hell; I can see how she got that. I didn’t say it in condemnation (I'm not judging her soul), I said it in concern. I felt I should say what I thought and it would be wrong of me to say nothing (whether she’s in the church or not). I’m tempted to believe that it is the spirit inside her that causes her to regard my comment with great concern.

What advantage does the church gain by pressing the ceremony of marriage before becoming one? Just control? Too what ends? This discussion has definitely challenged me as to how much I know Britt, yet it still is my opinion that she does not consider the implications of having relations with someone. I don’t think she considered herself married at the point of first relations. I think the ceremony of marriage brings to the forefront the implications and commitment involved. You are more likely to regard it seriously rather than casually (though that is swiftly changing as well). We can’t rely on humans, especially young ones, to make the commitment God wants, every time we think we’re ready to have sex with someone. I must admit that I have no proof of anything I say about her relationship with Dave. (I should have e-mailed her because my comments probably needed further clarification as to what I thought, ie. scriptural evidence) but there is enought evidence for me to conclude that Britt and Dave became one in a casual sense.

What do you mean you heard indirectly? Britt told mom, mom told you?

When Nee says, “you will do nothing more for God”. Does he mean there’s nothing you can do to help him? Definitely true but he also invites us to work with him.

To judge the Christians in my church by my questions is wrong. I still see you taking bigger leaps than I with less evidence.

I had to study my words to see the legalist perspective that stares you in the face. Tell me if I’m right. You think the church subliminally gets us asking these questions so that we will turn to it (churh) for all our answers (rules) rather than God.

It was only last year that I came across the words, “For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do,” of Romans 7 and was blessed that Paul struggled as I do. Freedom from the law means that we don’t need written rules for the Holy Spirit will make us aware if we sin. But people still sin and ignore the voice that tells them it’s wrong. They even convince themselves (often with help) that it’s okay and that sin is not sin. This is why “the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.” verse 12. It confirms the spirit and denounces the sin.

From what I see, I feel like you’re saying in being free from the Law, Britt can do what she wants because that must be where God is leading her. I don’t trust that. When I first had sex I didn’t think it was wrong nor did I feel guilty.