IF we insert a historical external imposition in those sights, then no, that can not be true. But we DO know these things were written for "us."
IN the same way what transpired with the Apostles that is written, is also written for us. These things are not meant to be bound or seen by historical contexts and filters.
To see this is to step back from the historical context, and see that God dealt with good and evil in man. How that plays out never changes. The settings in which it plays out is individualized or historical but the methodology doesn't change, nor does God change. God and His Ways are not changed by history.
I could go on at length in expositions of the above. The Word came first to "natural man." This is what Israel of the O.T. symbolizes to us. We know the natural man can not understand the things of God nor are they given to understand by God Himself.
But do those Words still apply? Absolutely, they do. But not in the literal sense of application. We KNOW the law for example is spiritual and must be understood in those terms. The law you speak of has 'literally' nothing to do with what transpired with those natural men.
Had they all been honest they'd have lined up across from each others and all stoned each others to death because they were all disobedient sinners. The natural man is, by his natural nature, a blinded lying hypocrite.
I might call the 'literal' sense of the law as Divine bait to trap and condemn the natural man. And that IS Gods Intentions with the Law. To KILL the natural man by making sin utterly sinful and to empower sin.
Citings:
Romans 7:
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good;
that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Romans 7:14
For we know that
the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
1 Corinthians 15:
56 The sting of death is sin; and
the strength of sin is the law.
God has no inkling whatsoever to bless the sin indwelling our flesh or the evil present within us. The law is it's enemy, but that working is forced to show and reveal itself BY the law, PROVING that indwelling SIN and EVIL
is an internal reality in MAN.
uh, yeah. Not a fan of dispensationalism unless we break it down to Gods dispensation to the natural man and the spiritual man, and we include these parties to the dissections, which dispensationalism sorely lacks in understandings:
Ephesians 6:
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
We should understand that the above adverse powers/entities/wickedness have been on earth from the beginning.
It is THEY who commit blasphemy IN man. It is THEY who can not be forgiven.
