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A Colloquy

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 21, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 12.

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A Colloquy.

By R. F. C.

You say the law of God has been abolished, because it was imperfect. David, by the Spirit, says, “The law of the Lord is perfect.” What evidence have you that it is imperfect?
“Paul says, ‘The law made nothing perfect,’ and that it ‘can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.’”
Could not a law be perfect, and yet not be able to make its transgressor perfect? The carpenter’s perfect straight-edge will show just how imperfect a crooked stick is; but it takes another tool to make it straight. God’s perfect law shows us our imperfections. Nothing but the sacrifice of Christ can remove them.
R. F. C.