WE ARE DEAD TO THE LAW

[Curtis]

In this passage, it's the relationship to the Law that is severed. From Law to Christ, not from flesh to Christ. Once ruled by Law, now we are ruled by Christ. Once we were in flesh, now we are in spirit.

Agreed, those who have, and are led by, the spirit have died to the law - and Paul keeps that same teaching about the law vs the spirit going, and explains our continuing choice to be led by the flesh, or by the spirit with the warning that if we choose to live after the flesh, we will die.

Rom 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Maranatha

 

[Ferris Bueller]

Soo far you are failing to discern that the essence and substance of Gods law is what believers keep, completely apart from the law of Moses.

Maranatha

I guess you'll just have to explain how you believe that faith upholds the law of Moses. Romans 3:31

 

[Ferris Bueller]

We don’t have anything to do with the old covenant law.

New covenant law that fulfills the substance and essence of Gods law, is the law of love, aka the law of Christ, with its subset of the two love commands, which don’t merely fulfill the ten commands, (that only contains negative commands that limit the harm we are allowed to do to our neighbors, but has not one drop of love for them in those commands), - because the Decalogue contains nothing positive that promotes helping our neighbor, instead of just not harming him.

That’s why the 2 love commands are far superior to the Decalogue which they superseded.

Maranatha

I'm curious why you're separating the 10 Commandments away from the entire law of Moses. You stressed the fact that it is a single entity.

 

[Ferris Bueller]

the law was not meant for the righteous, but for the ungodly

Exactly true, but at the same time Paul gives us an example of how the law is for us.....

"9For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” b Is it about oxen that God is concerned? 10Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he?" 1 Corinthians 9:9-10​

I think you're missing something here and inappropriately dismissing the law altogether as if that's what it means to 'not be under the law'.