Law. The mosaic Law is not training for you to do something, it’s training for you to love through doing something. It’s missing God’s standard, but God’s standard is not a symbol of the standard, its that symbol’s spiritual essence, and meaning.
In that way, it’s a prophetic Law of the spirit. For mortals, it is made for one’s moral future as an independent and free spirit, to be judged in its performance by inward instead of outward obedience. But for any other, it is a statement that He will in the future come and obey it with perfection. Merging the mortal and immortal future senses, we render Law as “training of the immature human spirit for the control the body for a religious reason so that it can be fulfilled by one’s honest and moral handling of spiritual Truth pertaining to its perfect, bodily fulfillment by Jesus Messiah.”
After you love what this primitive form of doing was meant for you to love, what was in place for you to do is still done, but it’s not done for achieving that love. It’s done because its a symbol of what is now your love of Truth. It’s binding now not because your father is telling you to do it, it’s only binding in the sense of its a habitual representation of the love that it engendered.
This is exactly the same figure using the body and spirit as a guide.
Resurrection, speaking theoretically, takes your old body and gives you a new body based on the same elements. You still are active in a body, but it’s not the old body, it’s a new one. You are still capable of doing what you did in your old body, but your new one is responsible for the old one only by analogy. If it was said you sinned, sin a sin either by analogy to the old body or by direct correspondence to the laws of the new one. If to the new one, it’s to an entirely different standard of which the bodily sin signs but does not stand as the kind of essential action by which it is judged. What is judged is the extent to which the sign of the sin accurately reflects the spiritual sin, not the extent to which the primitive sin is sin in itself.
So is the sin which was meant for carnal bodies moving in spatial reality but committed after you are judged responsible for a spiritual body. That is, after salvation by Christ. After you are counted an “adult,” so to speak, which is not set by whether or not you are spiritually mature but by the extent to which there is an ultimate means of Truth for which you are responsible as an adult. This is the truth of the Messianic promise and fulfillment in Jesus of Nazareth. It is possible, and certain, that you will sin like a child after being held responsible for your moral handling of this truth, but if thought an adult by God, you will be judged by the adult standard, a standard equal with the spiritual nature of what you are responsible for.
The only effective sin is now a spiritual one because you are now a person not of stricture and command, but of conscience. If of conscience, spiritual sin is about the moral handling of the highest kind of knowledge that exists to which you are expected to be cognizant, attracted and responsible in handling morally. Sin is a spiritual act of that failure, or righteousness is a spiritual act of its success. This, is not your success, because the means of that success was given to you freely for your conscience by God in the Revelation of Christ. But it is your failure since you are free to deny it.
In both cases, it is sin or righteousness against or with your moral conscience with respect to Christ’s perfect fulfillment of the same Law of the Prophetic Word, which now swallows up the mosaic Law in what it always was: “a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ.” (Galatians 3:24)
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