{"id":179,"date":"2012-10-21T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T18:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2013-05-21T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T23:42:12","slug":"dont-have-to-follow-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/21\/dont-have-to-follow-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t have to follow the Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the book ‘Whole Bible Christianity’<\/p>\n

One of the first knee-jerk responses a whole Bible Christian will get when sharing these opinions with a group of standard Christians is, \u201cWe don\u2019t have to follow the Law. It\u2019s not a salvation issue.\u201d My response is, \u201cSo let me get this straight. God is born into a human body, suffers in all ways as we do for around 30 years, dodges people trying to kill Him when He\u2019s only a couple years old, gets to preaching about repentance and love only to be arrested on trumped up charges and executed in the most horrible, torturous fashion available at the time even though He was completely blameless. My question is did He have to?\u201d<\/p>\n

No, Jesus didn\u2019t \u201chave to\u201d do those things. He did it because He loved us. If it could\u2019ve been done any other way He\u2019d of done it that way. \u201cMy Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless not as I will, but as you will.\u201d Whole Bible Christians echo our Messiah and say, \u201cNot as I will, but as you will.\u201d In all things. He loved us so much He left His glory in heaven shared with the Father and submitted to some miserable things in life. But He did it willingly, because of His gracious love.<\/p>\n

Now, all you spiritual rocket scientists tell me again how \u201cwe don\u2019t have to\u201d copy our Messiah and do as our loving and gracious heavenly Father instructs. The Law is not a \u201csalvation issue?\u201d It\u2019s not a tiny way to return the love our Father and Messiah lavish on us? Are you kidding me?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the book ‘Whole Bible Christianity’ One of the first knee-jerk responses a whole Bible Christian will get when sharing these opinions with a group of standard Christians is, \u201cWe don\u2019t have to follow the Law. It\u2019s not a salvation … read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,108,52,96],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-living","category-law-2","category-whole-bible-christianity","category-whole-bible-christianity-book","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wholebible.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}