Was the law was nailed to the cross?
What was nailed to the cross?
Colossians 2:14
NKJV - 14 Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
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Asked February 28 2014
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Ezra King
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Ezra King
So it was the Mosaic law and not the ten commandments that was "nailed" right?
Larry Truelove
Ezra, The Ten Commandments were part of the law. Contrary to the opinion of many, the law is never divided into distinct parts. It is helpful for us conceptually to think of it that way, but nothing in the Bible indicates or hints of that. On the contrary, the book of James says that any single violation of the law violates the whole thing.
And Paul suggests that anyone who regards himself as subject to the law is subject to the whole thing.
John Smith
Larry: God seperated His 10 Commandments twice.
1. Written in stone.
2. Placed them inside the Ark.
3. Mosaic law placed on the side of the Ark.
Deuteronomy 10:2
God Bless.
Larry Truelove
The NT interprets the Old, not the other. Conceptually, the Law was never divided into parts, never. The fact that a summary of the law was placed into the Ark does nothing to counter that. It was a summary, not a division.
Jack Gutknecht
Christ canceled the "charge of our legal indebtedness" (Colossians 2:13-14) by paying the penalty for our sins through His death on the cross. This act is understood as a definitive, legal transaction where our guilt was completely removed. As Paul writes, "God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins" (Colossians 2:13).
The "charge of our legal indebtedness" is vividly described in the original Greek as a cheirographon (χειρόγραφον), a "handwritten note" or bond that acknowledged a debt. This represents the record of our sins and our failure to perfectly obey God's righteous laws, which stood as a hostile accusation against us. The law itself, which we could not keep, served as the written evidence of our guilt.
Paul describes this cancellation in three powerful ways: He canceled the record of debt by blotting it out completely, He set it aside by removing its power over us, and He nailed it to the cross. In Roman times, a list of charges was often nailed above a crucified criminal. Paul uses this imagery to say that Christ took the "IOU" of our sin and publicly affixed it to His cross. As he states, "having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross" (Colossians 2:14).