According to Paul, the faith that justifies
is the faith that loves (
Galatians 5:6 NASB). Love is the manifestation of faith. When we see someone's love
we are seeing their faith. So when love fulfills the law
that is your faith in action fulfilling the law of Moses. And not just part of it, but ALL of it. For he says love fulfills "any other commandment" there may be (
Romans 13:9 NASB). When we love there is no outstanding debt of law left to condemn us (
Galatians 5:22-23 NASB). The law is upheld and fulfilled, not cast down and destroyed, when we love others--all of it, not just part of it.
"(L)ove one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 For this, "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET,"
and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. " (
Romans 13:8-10 NASB)
This scripture does not say faith in Christ fulfills the law of Moses.
This is the scripture that you posted to validate your "doctrine" that faith in Christ fulfills the law of Moses.
There is no such teaching here.
The law of Moses was not added to the Abrahamic Covenant. It is an entirely
separate covenant. Paul said it is not allowed to add or take away from a covenant that has been established (
Galatians 3:15 NASB). The law of Moses as a covenant that was added to the people of God, not to the Abrahamic covenant, and then made obsolete when Christ established a New Covenant in his blood. But it is an obsolete covenant that gets fulfilled, not destroyed, by Christ and faith in him, nonetheless.
More of your tangled misguided, but well intention "doctrine".
The Abrahamic Covenant was for
all of Abraham's descendants.
So now you are teaching that the children of Israel were not a part of the Abrahamic Covenant.
There seems to be no end to what you will say to try and validate, what you believe about the law of Moses.
The whole purpose of the law being added to the Abrahamic Covenant, was because the children of Israel
were transgressing the Covenant requirements...
What purpose then does the law serve? It was
added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made;
Galatians 3:19
The 10 commandments called out the boundary of the covenant commandments of God, that Abraham kept by faith, as he walked before the Lord in His presence, and received the empowering abilities from God's grace, by the faith he received from hearing God's Voice.
Walk before Me and be blameless... Genesis 17:1
1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am Almighty God;
walk before Me and be blameless.
2 And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."
3 Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying:
4 "As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.
5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.
6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.
7 And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.
8 Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God."
9 And God said to Abraham: "
As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. Genesis 17:1-9
The promise God made to Abraham was to give him and descendants the land of Israel...
In order for God's blessing to be upon the children of Israel, so that they could drive out the nations that were stronger than them, they could not continue in the transgression's to the covenant requirements, so He added the law of Moses to make it plain for them to know and obey, as a "fence" AROUND THE COVENANT...
These laws and commandments and precepts... that Abraham kept by faith, as he walked with God and learned from God directly, as God intended Adam to learn, rather than LEARN from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil can never impart faith.
Here is what God Himself told Abraham's son Isaac -
3 Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
4 And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
5 because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws." Genesis 26:3-5
JLB