I see. Your problem lays in my postings started with the words "in my opinion..."
Yes, you got it exactly. I have this instinct, a near compulsion, to press people away from discussing matters of fact in terms of their personal opinion, especially when it comes to doctrinal matters that touch on the very character of God Himself.
Good, ignore those words and discuss the content following them.
Ignore the words that degrade right and wrong down to a mere matter of opinion? I doubt that I am capable of it.
No matter how smart your way to evade a simple question, if you don't know the answer then at least give "your" opinion about what the Law of God was made for. Don't worry, I will validate your opinion as worthy to be considered.
I do not evade questions! I may sometimes refuse to answer, but I generally tell people that so that there's no confusion about what is happening.
Having said that, if you've spent any good amount of time dealing with people who call themselves Christian on supposedly Christian discussion forums, I could understand why you'd suspect that I was being evasive.
I would have to say that the question you've asked requires context to know just what answer you're looking for. You've asked a broad question and so you'll have to tolerate a broad answer....
The over arching purpose of the law is to reveal sin and point people toward righteousness.
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for
by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good,
so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.
Galatians 3:24 Therefore the
law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Furthermore, there are two and only two things in scripture that have a ministry of death, the law and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Just as the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil killed Adam (spiritually) so the law kills us...
Romans 7:9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
...for without the law sin in not imputed...
Romans 5:13 For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
...but Christ, has undone the curse...
Romans 5:15 But the free gift
is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. 16 And the gift
is not like
that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment
which came from one
offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift
which came from many offenses
resulted in justification. 17 For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)
18 Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
...and we who are in Christ must not place ourselves under the law (for righteousness sake)...
Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
Galatians 5:2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
Now, that is an almost criminally abbreviated treatment of this subject matter, but it will suffice to communicate the answer to the question. I'm sure you'll notice that I do not present it as my personal opinion. In it NOT my opinion. These are biblical facts. Facts that have a depth of detail and meaning that can hardly be expressed at all in this format and that touch on issues as critical as God's own character and the meaning of words like "justice", "righteousness" and "morality" and pertain to whether one's beliefs and overall worldview are fully integrated and coherent. In other words, they touch on the very definition of truth itself.
