I just encountered this quote:
"No one today, believer or unbeliever, is under the Mosaic law. The Mosaic law can be divided into moral, ceremonial, and judicial. That three fold distinction is really a two-fold distinction: moral (unchanging) and positive (changing). However, moral, ceremonial, and judicial were all given to Israel on Mt. Sinai as a covenant of works for life in Canaan. And when the Old Covenant was abolished, the entire Mosaic law was abolished as it was given to Israel. In this sense, no one is under Mosaic law today."
Here is a further explanation and link:
"However, some of the Mosaic law overlapped with the eternal and transcendent moral law (Rom 2:14-15), which is the decalogue. Thus when the Mosaic law was abolished, what remained was the moral law that preceded and transcends the Mosaic law. All image bearers, believers and unbelievers, are obligated to obey the moral law.
The issue is whether the moral law serves as a guide for how to live or if it serves as a covenant of works. See LBCF 19.6 (and all of chapter 19 of the LBCF).
Barcellos: "Hearty agreement must be given when New Covenant theologians argue for the abolition of the Old Covenant. This is clearly the teaching of the Old and New Testaments (see Jeremiah 31:31-32; Second Corinthians 3; Galatians 3, 4; Ephesians 2:14-15; Hebrews 8-10). The whole law of Moses, as it functioned under the Old Covenant, has been abolished, including the Ten Commandments. Not one jot or tittle of the law of Moses functions as Old Covenant law anymore and to act as if it does constitutes redemptive-historical retreat and neo-Judaizing. However, to acknowledge that the law of Moses no longer functions as Old Covenant law is not to accept that it no longer functions; it simply no longer functions as Old Covenant law. This can be seen by the fact that the New Testament teaches both the abrogation of the law of the Old Covenant and its abiding moral validity under the New Covenant."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Reformed/comments/3rhzlf/ama_1689_federalism/
What are your thoughts?
"No one today, believer or unbeliever, is under the Mosaic law. The Mosaic law can be divided into moral, ceremonial, and judicial. That three fold distinction is really a two-fold distinction: moral (unchanging) and positive (changing). However, moral, ceremonial, and judicial were all given to Israel on Mt. Sinai as a covenant of works for life in Canaan. And when the Old Covenant was abolished, the entire Mosaic law was abolished as it was given to Israel. In this sense, no one is under Mosaic law today."
Here is a further explanation and link:
"However, some of the Mosaic law overlapped with the eternal and transcendent moral law (Rom 2:14-15), which is the decalogue. Thus when the Mosaic law was abolished, what remained was the moral law that preceded and transcends the Mosaic law. All image bearers, believers and unbelievers, are obligated to obey the moral law.
The issue is whether the moral law serves as a guide for how to live or if it serves as a covenant of works. See LBCF 19.6 (and all of chapter 19 of the LBCF).
Barcellos: "Hearty agreement must be given when New Covenant theologians argue for the abolition of the Old Covenant. This is clearly the teaching of the Old and New Testaments (see Jeremiah 31:31-32; Second Corinthians 3; Galatians 3, 4; Ephesians 2:14-15; Hebrews 8-10). The whole law of Moses, as it functioned under the Old Covenant, has been abolished, including the Ten Commandments. Not one jot or tittle of the law of Moses functions as Old Covenant law anymore and to act as if it does constitutes redemptive-historical retreat and neo-Judaizing. However, to acknowledge that the law of Moses no longer functions as Old Covenant law is not to accept that it no longer functions; it simply no longer functions as Old Covenant law. This can be seen by the fact that the New Testament teaches both the abrogation of the law of the Old Covenant and its abiding moral validity under the New Covenant."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Reformed/comments/3rhzlf/ama_1689_federalism/
What are your thoughts?