ALL THINGS NEW by R. F. Cottrell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 21, 1876

ALL THINGS NEW.

By R. F. Cottrell

To make it appear that the law of God has grown old and vanished away, we are often referred to the text that says all things are become new. The text reads, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” The change, according to the text, is in the man, not in the law of God.

But suppose it to teach the abolition of the law, it only asserts it on a certain condition, namely, “If any man be in Christ.” Therefore, if any man be a Christian to him the law is abolished; he may tread it under foot with impunity. But to those out of Christ it is still in force, they are still under obligation to keep it! Such are the conclusions to which the excuses of men and their evasions of the perfect, unchangeable, and eternal law of God unavoidably lead. R. F. Cottrell.