I am having trouble organizing my thoughts this morning. Basically someone posted something that triggered some thoughts in me but i cant find the material i was looking for....

the post (not from this board) in question stated:

To my understanding the cememonial laws were done away with but the commandments still stand.

I am drawing a hard blank as to how to respond to this.

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Brian E
Attending Falls OPC
Menomonee Falls, WI

I think caution needs to be used in saying that any portion of God's Law has been done away with - rather we should say the law, even the ceremonial law, has been fulfilled in Christ. We still have a high priest in Christ and we still have an altar in Christ, etc. We no longer have the shadows, but the Substance.

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Toni Cunningham, Wife of Bill (Theognome)
Parkwoods OPC, Overland Park KS

"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." ~ Alexander Pope

Somehow I can't locate the original post to which you are responding, but the quick answer is that that poster is completely incorrect concerning the ten commandments. To be freed from the law in the sense Paul uses the phrase in Romans 7 is NOT to be freed from the ten commandments. A very cursory perusal of the rest of the New Testament is sufficient to dispense quickly with that sort of antinomianism.

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Todd K. Pedlar
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Brian, as a quick suggestion, I would listen to these sermons by my Pastor that deal with the distinctions in the Law (Civil, Ceremonial, and Moral), the uses of the Law, and the perpetuity of the Moral Law.

As for whoever wrote what you quoted above, they'd better not be advocating said nonsense on the board, as it is blatantly unConfessional (and unbiblical).

Here ya go, Friend:

What is the Relationship of the Christian to God's Law?

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Dad
Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCGA
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It is God that multiplies our sorrows.... God, as a righteous Judge, does it, which ought to silence us under all our sorrows; as many as they are, we have deserved them all, and more: nay, God, as a tender Father, does it for our necessary correction, that we may be humbled for sin, and weaned from the world by all our sorrows; and the good we get by them, with the comfort we have under them, will abundantly balance our sorrows, how greatly soever they are multiplied. - Matthew Henry

I apologize gentlemen! I should have stated that this was not posted here on this board. Forgive me if my post is misleading! I will edit my post

Josh: thanks for that link! Looks like I got my ears full