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Originally Posted by Draught Horse  God requires just laws (does God approve of sinful things?). It is true that unbelievers, acting inconsistently, can pass just laws, but that is not the norm. Christians, having the benefit of God's special revelation, can understand the world rightly. |
God deals with the state. God handles who is in control of nations. That's his will and his work.
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Originally Posted by Draught Horse Things might be different, true, but God hasn't changed his morality. Anyway, I reject a dispensational hermeneutics. |
I actually don't like dispensationalism and quite reject it also. Sorry if you got that impression. And God himself has not changed his morality, no. But he has changed what he wants his people to do: no more sacrifices, for example. Why? All because of Christ. God in the Old Testament era sanctioned the idea of eye for an eye, as Christ talked about. But with Christ we have "turn the other cheek."
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Originally Posted by Draught Horse Are you saying that Christ approves of two different ethical standards? If so, this is ethical relativism with a vengeance. |
Let me be clear. Not two ethical standards. Nothing should matter to the Christian except what Christ expects of him or her. We are to trust and obey him. We Christians are not of this world. God may have the same morals, but why are the people of the world judged? Because of evils they do to other people? Because of lies? Because of adultery? Or because of that which is more foundational?