{"id":3,"date":"2012-10-29T08:01:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T12:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2012-10-29T08:01:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T12:01:11","slug":"law-and-the-christian-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/law-and-the-christian-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Law and the Christian Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, I&#8217;ve grappled with the question of the relation between the law and life under the new covenant. About six months ago, things began to come into focus. The paradox has been viewed as a theological one, with reformers lined up on one side and non-conformists on the other, each trying to set up a theological framework to disqualify the proof texts offered by the other side. Perhaps the paradox isn&#8217;t theological at all, but pastoral, growing out of some of the issues I&#8217;ve discussed in previous posts about <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/have-you-eaten-your-bible-today\/\" title=\"Have you eaten your Bible today?\">Scripture as Food<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/do-you-know-jesus\/\" title=\"Do You Know Jesus?\">Spiritual Growth<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/LawAndTheChristianLife.pdf\">Here&#8217;s a paper<\/a> that tries to pull it all together. If you read it, please share your comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, I&#8217;ve grappled with the question of the relation between the law and life under the new covenant. About six months ago, things began to come into focus. The paradox has been viewed as a theological one, with reformers lined up on one side and non-conformists on the other, each trying to set up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scripture-as-food","category-spiritual-growth","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MwJP-3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}