Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:27:19 -0600
From: “Bill DeJong”
Subject: Who is under the law today?
Tim et al,
Consider this formulation: Christ’s coming changes the calendar for the entire world, not just for the Jews. The stoicheia tou kosmou, one of which was the Mosaic law, governed “this (present) age,” an age characterized by
immaturity and servitude and sin.
In Christ man comes of age. Those who are joined to Christ pass from minority to maturity and become members of “the age to come.”
Those who remain outside of Christ remain in “this age,” in immaturity and servitude, and under the stoicheia tou kosmou.
Bill
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:12:22 EST
From: edencity@aol.com
Subject: Who is under the law today?
Dear Bill and All:
I’m wondering if there aren’t some similarities in this sense: JBJ has said that Torah was unlike modern law codes.
Torah was incomplete in that it was not exhaustive, as ‘positive’ lawcodes in our time and place tend to want to be.
One had to compare cares.
For instance, there is not particular case that corresponds to the two harlots and one baby that Solomon decided.
Solomon had to write out the Torah in his own hand. From that he ‘absorbed’ the thinking of the Bible, I’d say.
Secondly, this is what we must do, which is why JBJ has emphasized timing as the key, and tone. It’s not just saying what is right, it’s saying it at the right time and in the right way, perhaps by example.
Thirdly, JBJ has mentioned that the parables are like the creation, designed so people won’t understand them (unless moved by the Spirit?). This in ‘Creation in Six Days’.
Fourthly, I believe, following Rich Bledsoe, that our bridge (The Way, Pontifex Maximus, Bridge Maker Greatest, Bonaventura’s itinerary of the mind) task is to transfigure, in Christ, the original participation, creation/sun-moon, into final participation, in Christ, while remembering both participations AND the bridge.
Thus, fifthly, the calendar — and the calendar of calendars, for Christ holds all times (Pr. Larson after Pr. Meyers in a sermon in Pella).
Sixthly, this will involve ‘eat your days,’ more elaboration upcoming.
FWIW.
And seventh, as week keep remembering the Torah/Bible incompleteness in this sense, we remain in liturgy-time in Confession. I believe we are continuously in all the liturgy-times, all the covenant-sequence times, in Christ.
Love in Christ Jesus,
Chuck, unworthy servant
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:09:32 +0000
From: “Frank D’Agostino”
Subject: Who is under the law today?
Chuck, thanks for this. The part about “timing” — I think this is an area in which I have a lot of maturing to do. I am not always aware of my tone, or of the timing of my speech. And I think this is a cultural problem, at least in America where “bluntness” and confrontation are glorified.
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:04:06 -0700
From: “Tim Gallant”
Subject: Who is under the law today?
Yea, Bill, that is verily what I thinketh.
tim
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