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Expert: LEBoyd - 9/21/2008


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    Mr. Boyd,

            
                 Thank you very much for your time and wisdom concerning the gospel. I don't take your sharing of information lightly, that is why I always thank you. Your knowledge of scripture is consistent with information I have attained in my research. That is very encouraging, again thank you. I would like to understand how the Ten Commandments apply in relation to the New Covenant if we are under grace and the law was abolished in Christ? Where is this reference in scripture of it's relation to the New Covenant?"

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Zach,

The Ten Commandments, as well as the rest of the Old Testament, relates to the New Covenant by tells us a couple of things.  1) It tells us the nature of God (e.g., that He demands obedience, that He has mercy and grace and that He loves His people.  2) It tells how to know how to recognize the Christ (this is how the Apostles taught the Jews that Jesus was the Christ).  3) It tells us there's a difference between God's people and the rest of the human race.

So, specifically, we can see the nature of God in the Ten Commandments.  In the New Testament, we see commands, but they are not the Ten Commandments.  The primary command that is not in the New Testament is the commandment to remember the Sabbath.

Hope this helps.

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I am available to answer questions on most subjects dealing with the Old and New Testaments. I have more than 30 years of detailed study in both Testaments. Additionally, I have studied the many facets of evolution, including a detailed study of Darwin's Origin of the Species. I am a fundamentalist, in that I believe that all Scripture is inspired, or God-breathed, (II Tim. 3:16). I believe that there are no contradictions in the Bible, and that the Bible is complete in telling us our purpose on earth, how to gain salvation and how we should live to obtain salvation. I believe in sin, Satan, heaven, hell, choice-immersion, grace as the free-gift of God and that one can fall from grace. I am a 'layman' in that I taught myself Hebrew (in the English alphabet) and Greek (in the Greek alphabet).

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I have taught many adult classes on the Scriptures on many different subjects over the last 25 years. I have also debated many people (several at once) over subjects such as evolution, original sin, the Diety of Jesus, whether Jesus was perfect by choice, and so-called Biblical contradictions.

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I am a layman, so I come as a self-trained "expert". I can provide copies of sermanets, classes and emails where I have debated Scripture with others. I do have a BBA and an MBA from a Top-10 MBA School. I also have several NASD/SEC licenses.

Awards and Honors
In Bibilical areas, I have scored the highest score, or in the top 10, with other adults in an all day annual test on specific Bible books. Some of these books were Luke, Revelation, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronmy, Joshua, Judges, II Kings, and others. Currently, I am teaching an indepth study on the book of Judges.

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