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Originally Posted by The Swan  I am soliciting suggestions on books/essays/rap songs/whatever ... regarding "Law". Especially topics such as:
(1) Law vs Gospel
(2) Proper use of Law
(3) Discussions of each of the Ten Commandments
I have had good luck finding help for category 3 in various commentaries on the confessions. But what are the standard works for these topics? Where can I find especially helpful/practical discussions? What do y'all recommend? | I don't understand your point 1. The Law and the Gospel do not fight one another.
For 2) if you mean proper use of the Law today see "Old Testament Ethics for the People of God" Christopher J. H. Wright and especially on the Mosaic civil laws "The Shadow of Christ in the Law of Moses" Vern Poythress and
For 3) a good, if idiosyncratic 20th century discussion is "The Institutes of Biblical Law" by Rousas J. Rushdoony. Joy Davidman's "Smoke on the Mountain" gives a Jewish Christian perspective. Very bracing.
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In Christ's love and service
Mr. Tim Cunningham, Dip. CS (Regent College)
Member, First Baptist Church
Vancouver, BC
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"The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar of 1500-year-old, 200 proof grace—a bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the gospel—after all these centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your own bootstraps—suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home-free before they started. Grace was to be drunk neat: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale." – Robert Farrar Capon
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