THESIS 26: CEREMONY, RITUAL, LITURGY, AND THE "PEDAGOGICAL LAW"

Before the Coming of Christ, the path to reconciliation with God was taught through ceremonial rituals which pictured the atonement and cleansing which Christ made in His death. Together with the priests who administered these laws, this liturgical system served as our Pedagogue.[85] After the Coming of Christ, the path to reconciliation with God is taught to us by the Holy Spirit;[86] ritual cleansings and sheddings of blood (which only prefigured the work of Christ) have no place in this age,[87] and the terms of the Old Covenant itself made this explicit.[88]

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

85. Galatians 3:23 - 4:3

86. 1 John 2:27; Hebrews 10:15

87. Galatians 3:25 - 4:7; Hebrews 5:13 - 6:6; 10:4

88. Psalm 51:16; Hosea 6:6; 2 Chronicles 30:18-20; 1 Corinthians 7:19; Hebrews 7:12,18,28; Micah 6:6-8; Psalm 40:6-8 (Hebrews 10:4-9); Psalm 50:8-9; I Samuel 15:22; Proverbs 15:8; 21:3; 28:9; Isaiah 1; 58:6-7; Jeremiah 7:22; Hosea 6:6 (Matthew 9:11-13; 12:6-7); Amos 5:21-24; 2 Chronicles 30:18-20; (cf. Mark 12:33); #54

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