Despite the emphasis on the Jewish traditions in the lesson, Tuesday's point is confused, somewhat : the moral law is the law in Galatians that leads to Christ and is replaced as a 'saving' tool by him as we accept him. The "law in Galatians" is very important, having being clarified in our midst since 1888, but disputed or avoided nevertheless to this day.

...The feast of tablernacles is indeed outstanding, but all point to Christ, even today..., to inspire us, like Passover and the Day of Atonement. They are not obligatory feasts.

The moral law is a guide for us to reach for Christ, who writes it on our hearts in our conversion experience, according to Jer 31:33, praise the Lord. Once we're believers the whole law is fulfilled as we live the life of faith, one day at a time, within this lifetime, for the final generation. What happens to the law wasn't actually allowed by the late author of the lesson, though he suggested that obedience wasn't excluded from our experience of the gospel - but, how much obedience?...full obedience, of course.

It is the moral law which leads to Christ and which Christ imputes to our hearts with his Spirit, then indeed to form perfect, Christlike characters in our lives as we cooperate with him. An internalised law is indeed being made righteous (Rom 5:19), the experience of justification by faith.

The law was given at Sinai to teach the people the impossibility of keeping it in their own strength. Their clear violation of it - golden calf - showed them their need of a Savior. Hence, the law, by showing them that they fall short of God's standard, led them to Christ, who it the only One who can meet the standard.

And once they accept Jesus, He gives them His righteousness, both imputed and imparted, so that they could meet the standard.

When we are cooperating with the agencies of heaven and experiencing the promises of God . . . then what? Are we sinning? Are we falling short of the glory of God? Are we required to repent?

Repentance is a change of mind. We don't go from having a wrong way of thinking to having the mind of Christ in an instant. As our thinking becomes more and more like Christ's, we are continuously repenting.

Repentance does not, of necessity, imply wrongdoing.

Tom, do you have SOP quotes to support the idea that repentance does not necessarily imply wrongdoing or confessing specific sins?

In the COL chapter about Peter before and after his fall, she writes that at every advance step repentance will deepen.

In a number of occasions, she wrote that Christ repented for us. Clearly He didn't repent of His own sins.

Quotes please.

The COL statement you can look up yourself. You've seen it a number of times. Both Rosangela and I have quoted it for you. It says at every advance step repentance will deepen. It's in the chapter that talks about Peter's fall and recovery, the one about the publican and the pharisee.

I'll see about finding an example of the second quote.

The 1901 General Conference Bulletin, April 4, speaks of Christ's taking "the necessary steps of repentance" on behalf of the human race. The following quote makes clear that it's possible for one person to feel repentance for another:



This is what Christ did. He put Himself in our place, and in our behalf felt repentance before God.

Only Christ could repent perfectly (for our sins, of course, since He didn't have any of His own).

True, our repentance deepens as our walk with Jesus deepens. Such repentance does not involve sinning and repenting per se. So, yeah, good point. Thank you.

And, the concept of feeling repentance in behalf of unrepentant sinners is interesting. Thank you for drawing my attention to it. It's certainly a different order of repentance, that's for sure. Every once in awhile I feel bad for people who have no idea they are being unChristlike.

Help me understand how this insight speaks to the question I asked above: When we are cooperating with the agencies of heaven and experiencing the promises of God . . . then what? Are we sinning? Are we falling short of the glory of God? Are we required to repent?