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>>18517832
Why would God enter that temple if it is the statue who's being honored? Will Even the sun bows down to God and in his presence cannot be seen, where does God go where he's not exclusively honored? Where will he stand? At the right hand of Paul? Or at the left? Or maybe on top of him? Glory is not a thing you divide among a list of honored ones, it is given completely to God. God created all the heavens and the earth and all that are in them in 6 days, who could be honored alongside him? When God stands everyone trembles and bows in awe before him. When he speaks everyone is completely terrified. His voice is louder than the loudest thunder. Like a continual disturbance of thunder endlessly sounding in the skies, shattering every window and terrifying all who are alive. A deer gives birth in terror at the sound of his voice. The forest shakes, the birds fly away and all the animals flee. And everyone's heart sins to the bottom of their feet.
Everyone and everything is completely outshined by him. All honor forever is always for him. A temple is not of God unless it bares exclusively his name and is dedicated exclusively to him.
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>>18517832
>“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."
>"by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace,"
He did not abolish any law nor any prophet. He created a new humanity with the current commands and regulations on his flesh to achieve peace for the new humanity, the old humanity still swings under the not abolished laws and prophets jazz.
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>>18517832
The former is referring especially to the scriptures themselves, which among the Jews was categorized into three groups, the law, the prophets, and the writings. Insofar as it is to be applied to the law as a body of commandments (and not a group of scriptures) it refers especially to the moral law of God, which Jesus Christ fulfilled and kept perfectly on behalf of all the elect. The latter is talking about Jewish ceremonies of the old covenant, such as circumcision, or abstinence from pork, by which they were distinguished from the nations around them. This is plain from the context.
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>>18517832
>Matthew 5:17
Makes a lot more sense when you read it along with 5:18.
>Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one title shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Jesus says that nothing will pass from the law until it is fulfilled, but Jesus also says that he is going to fulfill the law, meaning that those things will then pass from the law. The distinction between "abolishing" and "fulfilling" the law is not one of outcome but rather of justification. Jesus is saying that the old law is coming to an end, but not because he's rejecting the law as false, but rather because his arrival concludes the covenant between the Jews and God, like a contract that binds its parties until its terms are fulfilled, at which point it validly concludes.
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>>18518071
Nothing makes a Christian angrier than the idea of having to obey the God they claim to worship. The only reason they love Paul is because he told them they didn't have to obey God to serve him.
Which is ridiculous, imagine having a servant who does nothing you say.
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>>18518059
>He did not abolish any law
If that were true, Christians would still follow the mosaic law. “Fulfilling the law” is just a convoluted way of saying you discarded it. The Torah states several times that the law is ETERNAL and would never go away…