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  1. ok....so if the pedagogue did a lot of the work that parents do in our modern society....is it fair to say...that the law is a parent/Father?

    The law is strict and instructive but yet loving in its motives, as is our heavenly Father.
    Because we are disobedient(sinners), He(the Law) points us to Jesus the Obedient Son saying "He(Jesus) knows how obedience can be accomplished, and He has been disciplined in your place, so that you may stand blameless before me."

    Therefore if you believe that Jesus has done this for you,
    then 1 Pet. 2:21-25 is in effect.

    For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
    Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
    Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously:
    Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
    For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

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  2. I really liked your comment, Sinbad.

    It reminds me of this scriptural passage written by the apostle John.
    It's a passage with some very strong thoughts in it -- showing that a person truly in Christ can't continue his sinful life. The whole motive is to be more and more like Jesus!
    Quoting from the NLT:

    1 John 3 :1 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him. 2 Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is. 3 And all who have this eager expectation will keep themselves pure, just as he is pure.

    4 Everyone who sins is breaking God’s law, for all sin is contrary to the law of God. 5 And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins, and there is no sin in him. 6 Anyone who continues to live in him will not sin. But anyone who keeps on sinning does not know him or understand who he is.

    7 Dear children, don’t let anyone deceive you about this: When people do what is right, it shows that they are righteous, even as Christ is righteous. 8 But when people keep on sinning, it shows that they belong to the devil, who has been sinning since the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil. 9 Those who have been born into God’s family do not make a practice of sinning, because God’s life is in them. So they can’t keep on sinning, because they are children of God. 10 So now we can tell who are children of God and who are children of the devil. Anyone who does not live righteously and does not love other believers does not belong to God.

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