I think today’s study, stands by itself; yet, there is one issue where I don’t agree with Selwyn – in every sense of the word.
He says in his introduction: ” … Both we and the universe are made for truth and integrity, and both the world and we are alien to untruth and dishonesty. The universe is made for the same thing that we are made for -righteousness.
The same moral law that God has revealed in Scripture He has stamped on our human nature. He has , in fact, written His law twice – once in the text of the Bible and once in the texture of human nature; once on stone tablet and once on human hearts.”
It’s my view that only those who have a relationship with God, will have God’s law written on their hearts and who also can obey God’s law, (with God’s help)!
In Jememiah Chapter 31, we read (NIV): “This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,” declares the LORD. ”I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the LORD. ”For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” These words are repeated in Hebrews 8:10; and 10:16 – and we hear an echo in Paul’s letter to the Roman 2:15.
The people of God have His laws written on their hearts. I don’t think that those outside of God’s covenant have His laws written on their hearts, in the same way. Do you have another view?
‘I would rather be right … ‘
I think today’s study, stands by itself; yet, there is one issue where I don’t agree with Selwyn – in every sense of the word.
He says in his introduction: ” … Both we and the universe are made for truth and integrity, and both the world and we are alien to untruth and dishonesty. The universe is made for the same thing that we are made for -righteousness.
The same moral law that God has revealed in Scripture He has stamped on our human nature. He has , in fact, written His law twice – once in the text of the Bible and once in the texture of human nature; once on stone tablet and once on human hearts.”
It’s my view that only those who have a relationship with God, will have God’s law written on their hearts and who also can obey God’s law, (with God’s help)!
In Jememiah Chapter 31, we read (NIV): “This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,” declares the LORD. ”I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the LORD. ”For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” These words are repeated in Hebrews 8:10; and 10:16 – and we hear an echo in Paul’s letter to the Roman 2:15.
The people of God have His laws written on their hearts. I don’t think that those outside of God’s covenant have His laws written on their hearts, in the same way. Do you have another view?