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These four rules were simply meant to create peace and harmony between the Gentile Christians and the Jewish believers, many of whom still kept the Mosaic law. | These four rules were simply meant to create peace and harmony between the Gentile Christians and the Jewish believers, many of whom still kept the Mosaic law. | ||
==Do we have to keep any part of the law?== | |||
Most Christians believe that Christ redeemed us from sin but that is not what scripture says. Paul teaches us that: | |||
:'''''Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law''' by becoming a curse for us...''<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ga 3:13.</ref> | |||
In fact, if you try to keep the law today you are not justified before God: | |||
:''Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.” The law is not based on faith...<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ga 3:11–12.</ref> ''For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.''<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Jas 2:10.</ref> | |||
What the new covenant teaches us is that ''the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself."''<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ga 5:14.</ref> | |||
We, therefore, can conclude that for a woman to wear pants is not sin. For someone to believe that, means that they do not understand the Gospel... they do not understand the new covenant. | |||
=What is sin?= | =What is sin?= | ||