Justice for all cont

Your saying that God gave Moses the 10 commandments that God wrote with His finger on the tablets. But we also see in the following verses that they are not part of the law written on the tablets in which God pronounced curses for those who break the law. Your saying that because the curses were not part of the 10 commandments written on the tablets that they are not part of Gods moral law even tho they addressed the violation of the 10 commandments . So they are part of the ot ceremonial law that does not apply to the nt church.

But we find that God did not give His law to Israel to be successful if they cooperated with it. But all of His law is part of the creation ordinance.  Even the apostle argued that before the law was given on mount Sinai...that being there was no law written on tablets from the creation of man to the time God established Israel as a nation...that all men were held just as responsible because God wrote the law on the heart of each man. So we find that the law applied to Adam and Eve because God made them moral agents ...or His representatives to carry out His government over all that He created. We find that God placed man in the position of ruling on this earth. "You made man a little lower then the angels and crowned him with glory and honor."  Glory and honor are covenant terms that communicate that since God placed man in the position of ruling that God would enforce His creation law...that being in blessing and cursing...so that His covenant people could enjoy absolute success in ruling over the creation. God communicated that His success as Governor over the earth was real to us in terms of a conviction as we believed that His words spoken could not be thwarted. And this is why as Calvinist we draw a clear line of God ruling with absolute power. The glory of man is God displaying His glory in creating a successful government in which man is given value as he rules over Gods creation.

We find that God created the earth according to His laws, promises, covenants, decrees and statutes. The bible says that the whole earth speaks as a display of Gods glory...or His display of justice, faithfulness, kindness, and equity in Him carrying out His law by the order we see in God sustaining His creation. This is why I believe that Gods success as the ruler of the earth did not depend upon Israels success but Israel was a display of God communicating the perfect relationship in words toward His creation and toward His people as a nation. God ordered all events in time as a snap shot in eternity past in which He is proven to be perfectly just, faithful, long suffering and gentle in His pronouncement of blessing and cursing that is both revealed and mysterious that proves in absolute power that His will cannot be thwarted.

I present all of my arguments in the commentary from the Psalms. Every thing we believe has to be communicated in a biblical way.
 Deu 27 :16 “Cursed is anyone who makes an idol—a thing detestable to the Lord, the work of skilled hands—and sets it up in secret.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!” That one looks like the first commandment to not have any other gods.
Leviticus 20:9
“‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head." In the context of a covenant family this one looks like the 5th commandment.

cont
Yes Ive heard this all of my life. The apostle is teaching our side and Gods side. We work and God works. But I do not believe the apostle is teaching two equal sides to the christian life. Nor do I believe that the balance gives us successful. But I believe the apostle is teaching us that God creates a new man in us and the obedience is a by product of our experience of Christ.

If you look at the teaching in a superficial way then it seems that the apostle is teaching a certain balance. But we know there are absolutes that we are required to believe that are not in this teaching. So we repeat this teaching as a kind of mantra. Its easy for us to use the scripture and fit it in our culture and community. But we know that the NT context of scripture comes from how the words were used in the ot. You will find this same teaching of the two sides (Gods and our side) in the 119th Psalm. But it is taught in a more detailed and personal way in the Psalm. So here the apostle is coming in a general way of teaching as a letter to a church ...hitting the main points and then moving on to the next point. If you studied the letters written by the apostle they all are in this similar motif.( Having memorized most of the apostles letters. )

What Ive been seeking to do is to kind of put meat on the bones of the teaching. As we make a further examination we will more and more bring the apostles teaching into the context of the all of the bible. And this is my approach having memorized the ot Psalms, proverbs... the ot worship and wisdom books. I mean over the years of writing about this subject it seems that most people stay on this as if the balance makes the christian life automatic. But there is so much more to examine that sheds light on the apostles teaching that needs to be uncovered. But such is our culture.