When Rajk999 says that the Law of Moses is the only thing referred to in Galatians, there is some ground to say this. But it is not exhaustively so excluding even our own man-made laws.
The principle of law activating the flesh to rebel against it is not limited to the Law of Moses.
In Colossians Paul speaks of new regulations that Christians may come up with which he says "the commandments and teachings of men"
"If you have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances:
Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch, (regarding things which are all to perish when used) according to the commandments of men." (Col. 2:20-23)
These ordinances include man made ones beyond the ten commandments.
"Such things indeed have a reputation of wisdom in self-imposed worship and lowliness and severe treatment of the body, but are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh." (v.23)
Christian monks who invented asceticism invented rules and regulations which had the same effect of arousing the flesh to react against just as the Law of Moses did.
We may invent modern day Do's and Don't as further laws which act in the same way as the law of Moses to energize the rebellious nature to revolt against on general principle.
@Rajk999
You can threaten all you wish.
It is plain that you have a very shallow and superficial understanding of the New Testament.
Colossians is not limited to the Law of Moses.
@sonship saidWhat a desperate and lame attempt to avoid the teachings of Christ. Go profess to Jesus you love him 100 times, and then tell everyone not to obey His commandments. What a hypocrite you are. Jesus is laughing at you. God is laughing at you. The angels are shaking their head in disbelief that you are such a jacka$$.
@Rajk999
You can threaten all you wish.
It is plain that you have a very shallow and superficial understanding of the New Testament.
Colossians is not limited to the Law of Moses.
Whether it was the law keeping of the Old Testament that kept the Christians from advancing or the ordinances of cultures of various peoples that replace Christ, Christ is to be lived out.
Every culture has its systematic ways of dealing with the indulgence of the sin nature. And the stronger our culture is the more critical we are of others. And the methods and rules of cultures replaced Christ in Colossi. So Paul wrote of Christ transcending all cultures and their laws, ordinances, rules, asceticisms.
"And have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto full knowledge according the image of Him who created him, where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeman, but Christ is all and in all." (Col. 3:10-11)
Self made laws, cultural laws, other moral ethical systems can replace Christ.
The Law of Moses can replace living Christ.
But so also the laws of a nations cultural norms may replace living Christ.
So Paul speaks of putting on "the new man." That is Christ as a new humanity transcending all the cultural barriers brought about by various systems of ethics.
In First Corinthians it was mainly sinful things which distracted the believers from living Christ.
In Galatians it was mainly law keeping of the old covenant which distracted the believers from living Christ.
In Colossians it was the systems, ordinances, methods of various cultures which Satan used to replace living Christ.
In Christ there cannot be the cultural laws that separate peoples and replace Christ. It is not that there should not be. It is that Christ will fill all and all and there cannot be the cultures usurping the enjoyment of Christ -
In the new man there is no possibility for Greek and Jew, Barbarian and Scythian with their cultures to replace Christ. There can be no possibility for slave culture or freeman culture to replace Christ. Whatever the types of asceticism or methods devised by men to regulate their behavior, living through Christ must set free from all of them.
The methods and laws used to restrain ourselves are ineffective compared to living through Christ. He is the perfect life and He is the life giving Spirit dispensed into the believers.
Paul writes that in Christ are hid all the treasures of wisdom and understanding.
"In whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden. This I say that no one may delude you with persuasive speech." (Col 2:3,4)
Rajk999 is one trying to delude people with persuasive speech to replace living Christ with law keeping. Why else would he insist an antichrist or ashiest can keep the commands of Christ?
So then, my brothers, you also have been made dead to the law through the body of Christ so that you may be joined to another . . . " (Rom. 7:4a)
This pertains to the law of Moses. But the same principle of our being made dead to law in Christ applies to the laws of the cultures and even self made laws.
"If you have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances:
Do not handle,
nor taste,
nor touch,
(Regarding things which are all to perish when used) according the the COMMANDMENTS and TEACHINGS of men? (Col. 2:20-22)
These methods have a reputation. And they may keep societies from being totally barbaric. But Paul knows they are ineffective compared to abiding in the resurrected and available victorious Christ.
"Such things indeed have a reputation of wisdom in self-imposed worship and lowliness and severe treatment of the body, but are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh. If therefore you were raised together with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God" (v.23 - 3:124)
So let's say a strong law comes down - "It is not lawful for you to be a homosexual. You'll get arrested for homosexual acts."
Some reply "This is against how I was BORN. I was made that way."
The New Testament says that through Christ we have died to law.
The law of God and even self made or society made laws have their effect of
activating something in man's transmuted and fallen body, the flesh, that on GENERAL PRINCIPAL rises up to revolt, to rebel, to pull the opposite direction.
Plunging into the Spirit of Jesus Christ calling on Him and believing He can live in you frees us from the curse of the law. We do not rise by being sin centered. We rise with Christ by joining our inward being to His available Person in the form of the Holy Spirit.
"the last Adam [Christ) became a life giving Spirit. ( 1 Cor. 15:45)
This means Christ GIVES HIMSELF to you.
This means Christ GIVES the life of God right into your innermost spiritual being.
This means Christ after physically resurrecting also put Himself in a form in which He can impart Himself . .. HIMSELF the actual Jesus Christ - INTO you.
Little by little He teaches us to apply Him like the heavenly power steering full of divine force and righteous energy liberate us.
"And the Lord is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom." (2 Cor. 3:17)