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mutzrein said:Georges said:gingercat said:Georges said:The answer.......It hasn't been fulfilled completely by Christ at this time...This will not happen (completion) until the end of the Messianic Kingdom period.
excellent point George. Jesus' mission for us is done but we still have to accept Him and follow Him for completion.
How do we accept and follow him? That's easy, well theoretically anyway, we accept him and follow him by trying to copy his example....
What was that? Jesus loved God and man in that he obeyed Torah. We should do the same as it applies to believing Gentiles....
Sorry Georges. I can't go along with this element of what you say. But don't let me dissuade you from what you believe is right for you before God.
Sorry you disagree...that's OK...although I don't reeally think you would completely disagree...
I must live my life 'as it were' in Christ.
Obeying Torah is living your life in Christ...emulation and imitation of how he lived his life. Couldn't be a better way of identifying yourself as a member of God's family.
I am part of the vine. And because I am in Christ (the vine) I bring forth the fruit of the vine. I don't do things to emulate fruit. It is fruit.
If you imitate/emulate Christ, you are "one with him", that is, you identify yourself with him. If you do not imitate/emulate Christ, you are not one with him. What is your purpose if you are "in Christ"? You do what he did (or strive to). That is to live as righteously as you can. The guidelines to do that are found in the Torah.
I don't do things BECAUSE they are the right things to do. I do them because it is natural for me to do them. They are a natural consequence of being in Christ.
You may be the only one I've ever met (personally or forumly) that thinks this way. Personally, I try to do the right thing because it is proper and right to act in love. Not because I have Christ in me, but because I wish to imitate him. To imply that you had only done "right things" since you came to Christ would be a little hard for me to believe. There are many people who act in love (do the right thing) who have never heard of Christ.
Now, "being in Christ", means you follow his example of "daily living". Christ did the "right thing" and loved his fellow man by following the requirements of the Torah...if you do that (follow Torah), you will be loving your fellow man, and doing the right thing.