Greetings to all. Still working of the Law and its relation to Christ and the IDR (incarnation, death, resurrection). There are two verses I am trying to reconcile and work out. Those two verses are...
(Rom 7:6 NKJV) 6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by,
So what I read in Romans 7:6 that I want to focus on is that we (those that believe) "have been delivered from the law". Here I take the implication to be that (a) God gave the Law for some purpose. And then within the IDR, one purpose was to then (b) deliver us from that Law that God gave. Then Paul goes on to say, regarding being delivered from the Law, that we have "died to what we were held by". The term "died" or death being what happened for us to be released (assuming Christ's death is what released us).
I would like to stay within this judicial framework (if you disagree with the framework please explain why).
Here are the stages of the judicial framework.
(1) The Deliberation Phase: Consideration of appropriate laws and evidence.
(2) The Verdict Phase: Consists of either condemned or justified.
(3) The Sentencing Phase: Consists of punishment and penalties or freedom and everlasting life.
The Bible tells us that we in our sin, and under the Law, are condemned already. In other words, the Law has spoken already. If mankind is condemned already then mankind has already reached the Verdict Phase of the judicial process and been condemned by the Law. Therefore the next step is the Sentencing Phase.
So under that framework, which of these two options below did Christ address regarding the Law? Did Christ....
(A) Does the work of Christ take upon Himself the next judicial phase, which would be the Sentencing Phase, in our stead, i.e., the punishment? In this option after taking on the punishment of the believer, the record of that believer is then expunged in the eyes of God. This would seem to be traditional Penal Substitution and its various forms. (Isa 53:6, 1Pet 2:24, Gal 6:2)
OR
(B) Does the work of Christ generate a retrial based on new discovery? In this option, Christ does not take on the Sentencing Phase (punishment). What Christ takes on is His Cosmic Accomplishments. The work on the cross and these Cosmic Accomplishments therefore initiates a retrial in which the defendants return to the Deliberation Phase. So then everyone is to be judged at the retrial before the great white thrown.
The last verse to be applied to how each (A) and (B) apply is...
(Col 2:13-14 NKJV) 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
The would like to focus on "having wiped out" the "requirements". Interestingly, it does not say that the requirements have been satisfied but "taken it out of the way". Possibly as in 'removed'.
Thoughts? (A) or (B)?
Verses are desired with elaboration.
Keep seeking God's truth as if it were hidden treasure (Prov 2)
(Rom 7:6 NKJV) 6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by,
So what I read in Romans 7:6 that I want to focus on is that we (those that believe) "have been delivered from the law". Here I take the implication to be that (a) God gave the Law for some purpose. And then within the IDR, one purpose was to then (b) deliver us from that Law that God gave. Then Paul goes on to say, regarding being delivered from the Law, that we have "died to what we were held by". The term "died" or death being what happened for us to be released (assuming Christ's death is what released us).
I would like to stay within this judicial framework (if you disagree with the framework please explain why).
Here are the stages of the judicial framework.
(1) The Deliberation Phase: Consideration of appropriate laws and evidence.
(2) The Verdict Phase: Consists of either condemned or justified.
(3) The Sentencing Phase: Consists of punishment and penalties or freedom and everlasting life.
The Bible tells us that we in our sin, and under the Law, are condemned already. In other words, the Law has spoken already. If mankind is condemned already then mankind has already reached the Verdict Phase of the judicial process and been condemned by the Law. Therefore the next step is the Sentencing Phase.
So under that framework, which of these two options below did Christ address regarding the Law? Did Christ....
(A) Does the work of Christ take upon Himself the next judicial phase, which would be the Sentencing Phase, in our stead, i.e., the punishment? In this option after taking on the punishment of the believer, the record of that believer is then expunged in the eyes of God. This would seem to be traditional Penal Substitution and its various forms. (Isa 53:6, 1Pet 2:24, Gal 6:2)
OR
(B) Does the work of Christ generate a retrial based on new discovery? In this option, Christ does not take on the Sentencing Phase (punishment). What Christ takes on is His Cosmic Accomplishments. The work on the cross and these Cosmic Accomplishments therefore initiates a retrial in which the defendants return to the Deliberation Phase. So then everyone is to be judged at the retrial before the great white thrown.
The last verse to be applied to how each (A) and (B) apply is...
(Col 2:13-14 NKJV) 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
The would like to focus on "having wiped out" the "requirements". Interestingly, it does not say that the requirements have been satisfied but "taken it out of the way". Possibly as in 'removed'.
Thoughts? (A) or (B)?
Verses are desired with elaboration.
Keep seeking God's truth as if it were hidden treasure (Prov 2)