by Ronald Colquitt

Created on: January 05, 2010

The Effects of The Mosaic Law

There are three perspectives from which the Bible can be read, unbelief and two from belief. The important word is “belief.” The question posed concerns The Mosaic Law. It is part of the Bible and its impact on the Unbeliever and the two types of Believers will be different. Different to the point two will see contradictions. The third, the point of view the authors wrote from, has no contradictions. A good test for me was First John.

The Unbeliever reads it with “ears that do not hear.” He does not do the most important thing that needs to be done, “believe,” so he is deaf and blind. He judges the world by the Mosaic Law but ignores the fact he cannot keep it. Add the “spirit of The Law and the fact that it takes perfection to qualify and he is incapable. But that is what The Mosaic Law is supposed to do! Convict!

NIV Romans 5:20 The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

There are two classes of Believers. Those who insist The Mosaic Law still has a place in their life (legalists) and those who do not. I belong to the second group. Before we go on there are two definitions of Greek words that need to be understood.

[Fri] a`marti,a, aj, h` sin; (1) of an act, a departure from doing what is right, equivalent to a`ma,rthma sin, wrongdoing (1J 5.17); (2) as the moral consequence of having done something wrong sin, guilt (AC 3.19; 1J 1.7); (3) as the nature of wrongdoing viewed as the rejection of God by self-assertive human beings sin, evil (RO 5.12, 13; cf. 1.21); (4) especially in Johannine usage as a moral condition of human beings in revolt against God sin, being evil, sinfulness (JN 9.34; 15.24); (5) especially in Pauline usage as an abstract moral principle or force personified as evil in character sin, evil (RO 6.12); (6) especially in Hebrews as a deceiving power personified as leading human beings to guilt and destruction (HE 3.13; 12.1

(5) above is the part we will be looking at. Paul, John and the author of Hebrews personify it. The Greek language puts a definite article in front of it, The Sin. When you see the word “sin” singular in the NIV it is this Greek construction.  So I will treat it as a proper name: The Sin Nature. I will insert it in bold parentheses

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