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"Not Under the Law of Moses" Means We're Not Under the "Creation Week" in Genesis, Chapter One !!

Paul the Apostle tells us we are "Not under the Law [of Moses]"(Romans 6.14; Galatians 5.18),
which means we're not under the confinement of the Law(Gal 3.23-4.7).
Instead we are under "grace," which has to do with freedom(Rom 6.14).
Preachers should develop that idea, like the man in Christ's parable started
with 5 talents[units of money] and traded them and made five more talents(Matthew 25.20).
But i don't see any preachers writing blogs about how the Bible supports:
(a)the Big Bang theory or (b)Theistic Evolution.  
Or (c) the Old Earth side of the Old Earth versus Young Earth debate.
Why don't preachers or evangelists write blogs devoted to the several ways
in which the BIBLE itself supports a,b, and c.

They could start with the Apostle Paul who writes, like i say,
"you are not under the Law [of Moses] but under grace"(Romans 6.14; Galatians 5.18).
So we are NOT obligated, duty-bound, to hold onto Genesis,
chapter one, with its 6-days Creation Week.
For Genesis is the first of the 5 books of Moses,
which together make up "the Law of Moses."
(That's what "the Law of Moses" means, the first five books of the Bible.)

Instead,  we're free (because grace has to do with freedom)
to accept the BBT(the Big Bang Theory).
Especially, because the BBT comes directly from the light of the stars in the skies.
Scientists "read' the data in the light from stars in other galaxies.
The "red shift" in the light spectrum produced by that light tells scientists
that all the galaxies are receding from us and from all other galaxies.
That fact is the basis for the BBT. My point is that the skies, themselves,
are communicating that fact (the expanding universe) and by extension the BBT itself.

And what does the Bible say about what the skies communicate to us?
It says, "The heavens declare the glory of God"(Psalms 19.1-4).
So the Bible itself endorses what the heavens/skies declare/communicate.
The Big Bang is "the glory of God" that Psalms 19.1-4 is prophesying !!!.
But that takes some explaining.

For now, let me just say that the words "you are not under
the Law[of Moses]"(Rom 6.14; Gal 5.18) are totally under-utilized.
The usual interpretation is misguided and mistaken.
 Fundamentalists would have us believe that we STILL ARE "under"
the history part of the Law, which includes Genesis 1, etc.
Fundies say we are not under the dietary part, the ritual part, etc.
But we are still under the HISTORY part of the Law of Moses.

But Paul clarifies things by coming down hard on "endless genealogies".
"Don't give heed to..endless genealogies which cause disputes
rather than godly edification which is in faith"(1 Timothy 1.4).
He's talking about genealogies in the LAW OF MOSES of men living
relatively "endless" lives - of 300 years or even 900+ years, like Adam, Methuselah.
In another passage Paul specifies that it is the genealogies in
THE LAW OF MOSES that he's talking about(Titus 3.9).
Since the genealogies(Genesis 5 and 7) are definitely part of the socalled "history"
part of the Law, when Paul says put them aside, he is indicating
that we are "not under" even the HISTORY passages in the Law !!.

Of course we are to appreciate and revere the "history" in Genesis One,
and the Adam and Eve lessons in Genesis Two and Three.
Just because we are no longer under them, that doesn't mean they are valueless.
We are to learn from Creation Week, Adam and Eve, and the Fall of Man,
just as we can learn from the passages about the various
rituals and animal sacrifices in Leviticus, etc.
Written by joegracegrace (Joe Grace)
Published | Edited 16th Jan 2016
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