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gain it is not the Holy Spirit that is being divided but the ability of man to be filled by him.
It's not about compromise, but it's about how much a person can take of the Holy Spirit. As God said to Moses, if anyone sees the face of God they will die. Ex 33:20. This couldn't have applied to Christ.
Yes and no. Practically he absolished the lower commandments, with their harsh rules and theirs do's and don'ts i.e. the traditions of men Col 2:8. This includes circumcision. I don't really agree that it was "left to interpretation" for the Pharisees merely abolished the law. The law could only be fulfilled in one way which was the way Christ did it.
So we have the concept of the law being fulfilled without having to obey the lower commands, for as Jesus taught, some commands were much highers than others. It is this hierarchy of spirituality that we have to get to grips with.
And so we can see there's no different between understanding God (meaning to see God with our spiritual eyes) and seeing God with our physical eyes. Same with Moses, although Exodus 33:20 says But,? he said, ?you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.?Exodus 33:11 - Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.Deuteronomy 34:10 - Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,Numbers 12:8 explains this a bit more - With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses??Moses understood and saw God with his spiritual eyes but did not actually see God with his physical eyes.
Correct, but the Pharisees had the temple system, which made up for their fDeuteronomy 34:10 lawed interpretation. Jesus replaced the temple system, making it obsolete. The temple system with its sacrifices, allowed the Pharisees to understand the law according to their own interpretation. But since Jesus, there is only one way to fulfill the law and that is through Jesus' teachings.
Jesus abolished denominational traditions which you are calling 'lower commandments'. Denominational traditions are essentially exceptions which were not party of the law from the beginning. Through a lack of faith, and the law being so perfect, it sounds like its open to interpretation and the Pharisees added exceptions. This is what Jesus essentially abolished, these exceptions they added to the law - that's how Jesus fulfilled the law.
I disagree that to see God with our spiritual eyes is the same as seeing the face of God. If discerning God spiritually involved "seeing God" then Christ would not have been the only one to see God,
For many prophets with the Holy Spirit preceded the coming of Christ.
When it says God talked with Moses face to face, it could equally be interpreted "presence to presence" i.e. direct interaction.
That's not to say that Moses didn't see the glory of God: he did, but not the full glory, because he was only talking with an angel of God (the law was put into effect by angels - Hebrews).
The point is that God is invisible to mortal man, but Christ being previously on the throne of God, saw God's face because he was God, which is why, when he was made a man, he was filled with the Holy Spirit more than anyone else,
which upholds the law, by which is meant the spiritual law, but not the former prescription for justification by rule observance.
We have to be clear that all the former "petty" rules under the Old Testament were for justification. Those justified by faith do not have to obey them, because they are no longer profitable, even if at one time they were profitable.
The age of science is upon us. We can eat pork because we can make it safe to eat. We don't need ritual washings
Yet there is still a whole host of Old Testament rules that Christians are obligated to obey, because they are part of the spiritual law.
I agree, preovided you include in the "denominational" traditions the full gamut of Old Testament writ peculiar to the Jews, and that you apprehend by "denomination" a different system of justification from sin.