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09. What is the Law and Grace?

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09 - Law and Grace

The questions are the title of the above painting by Paul Gauguin, explained in Wikipedia as follows:

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (French: D’où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ?) is an 1897–98 painting by French artist Paul Gauguin. The painting was created in Tahiti and is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Viewed as a masterpiece by Gauguin, the painting is considered “a philosophical work comparable to the themes of the Gospels”.

Wiki explains that Gauguin attended a Catholic boarding school with a strong religious focus, and although he became anticlerical, these questions stayed with him.

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1. The Law
(1)  What is required for mankind to be restored to the joy of the presence of God?  Is this what was lost in the Fall?
Leviticus 19:2
Matthew 5:48
(2)  What is the Law, as referred to in "The Law and the Prophets"?
Matthew 5:17
Luke 24:27
Matthew 7:12
(3)  Content of the Ten Commandments
Exodus 20:1-17
John 15:26
John 16:7-8
John 16:13-14
(4)  Exodus chapters 21 to 31, following the Ten Commandments in chapter 20, have more details about God's commands or Laws, His commands for worship, and His relation to the people of Israel.
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(5)  Significance of the Ten Commandments
Romans 13:8-10
Matthew 22:36-40
(6)  Purpose of the Law?
Romans 3:20
James 2:10
2. Grace
(7)  What has happened to the Law with Christ's victory on the cross?
Romans 10:4
Galations 3:13
Galations 3:21-22
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