Contrary Things: Law <--vs--> Grace: Galatians 5:17

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Contrary Things: Cannot Coexist In Peace

Peace with God = Law vs Grace; Sacrifice vs Mercy; Confusion vs Peace.
God is not [the author] of confusion, but [the author] of peace: 1Cor 14:33.
A mixture of contrary things makes a Lukewarm Oxy-Moron with a Bad end.
<--BC<--Law(Sacrifice)<--divided: one against the other-->Grace(Mercy)-->AD-->
 the flesh
(allegory: Law) <-- warreth against --> the Spirit (allegory: Grace)
Bible Example of Contrary Things:
John 1:17: Law vs Grace: as if Lie vs Truth:
The law (as if the lie) was given by Moses,
But grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Romans 6: Ye/We are not under law, but under grace, if led of the Spirit: Galatians 5


Related Pages: Enmity -vs- Friend   Dare to Compare:  I will have mercy, not
sacrifice
Greeting: Paul's Holy Kiss of Charity(Pure Grace):
Grace (not law) unto you, and peace (not confusion),
from God our Father  and  the Lord Jesus Christ.

Galatians 5:17   Contrary Things   Law vs Grace

       "I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
       For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and
       these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would
.

       But if ye be
led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law".


Contrary Things    -    Law <--vs--> Grace    -    Contrary Gods

Law <--vs--> Grace are "contrary" things: Death <--vs--> Life

Of things created/made(before/after), two "contrary" things can notably be "made":
(i)   made one proselyte: twofold: more the child of hell(law): Matthew 23:15 ... Law
(ii)  made perfect (grace) by the God of all grace: Hebrews 5:9...1Peter 5:10 ... Grace

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Mixing contrary things makes an oxyMORON with a BAD end.
Contrary Things: Law vs Grace only combine (mix) to make "One Proselyte".

One Proselyte: is "twofold": "more the child of hell": Matthew 23:15.


Example of contrary things in Matthew 12: 30-37
It's good
(grace) or corrupt(law); not both good + evil
So "either make the tree good
or corrupt(evil)": JC.

Allegory: either make the tree grace (good) or law (evil).

Law:
"both good and evil"  was "corruptible", and "mortal": Paul.
Grace: good only, never evil,  is "incorruptible", "immortal": Paul.

The choice is non-violence (grace) or non-existence (law): Gandhi.

To be (grace) or not to be (law), that is the quest-i-on: Shakespeare


Dare to Compare (not mix) Contrary Things
"Comparing spiritual things with spiritual": Laws with Grace: 1Corinthians 2:13

Contrary things such as law vs grace, sacrifice vs mercy, confusion vs peace, shouldn't be mixed, as such oxymoronic mixture of contrary things is as mixing Life + Death(added) = Dead End. Rather we are biblically exhorted to compare spiritual things with spiritual: "comparing spiritual things with spiritual" (1Corinthians 2:13): notably comparing plural with singular (eg: "generations" of Adam: Genesis 5 with "generation" of Jesus Christ: Matthew 1): law law with grace; For such contradictory contrary things written aforetime for our learning are meant to be compared, not mixed. Example: mixing blessed(graced) + cursed(lawed) ends badly: "accursed" (Galatians 1:8,9), and since "there is no respect of persons with God", it applies to "every one" (Galatians 3:10,13).

1Corinthians 2:13 (Comparing, not mixing, of contrary things)
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth,
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual

Comparing this gospel vs that gospel
This gospel = "the beginning of sorrows"
That gospel = the end of sorrows (laws)
Both gospels notably go globe-all for compare-i-son
Example: Two Revelations: Revelation of St John vs Revelation of Jesus Christ
Example: Two Last Days: The day of the LORD(LAW) vs The day of God(Grace)

Let us Dare to Compare this God: Law <--vs--> "that God": Grace (Contrary Things)
Galatians 5:17 notes law(flesh) and grace(Spirit) are "contrary" things which are one "against" the other, and notably after Galatians 4 notes "which (contrary) things are an allegory". So let us dare to compare (not mix) contrary things such as this God: Law vs that God: Grace as flesh <--vs--> Spirit. To wit: "that God" (the God of all grace) was in "Christ" (the end of the law) reconciling the world (not some only), not law imputing their trespasses unto them: 2Corinthians 5:19. On the contrary Law imputes sin: Romans 4:15; 5:13, and law is the strength of sin's death sting: 1Corinthians 15:56, so law = strong man to bind in order to spoil the Mosaic house of sin and death: Matthew 12:29.

Mary Mary, Quite Contrary

Mary Mary, quite Contrary

                                                                    Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
                                                                    How does your garden grow?
                                                                    With silver bells and cockleshells,
                                                                    And pretty maids all in a row.

Them vs Them "oppose themselves" are quite contrary. Us-ward is neither of them vs them.
A simple nursery rhyme perhaps, but with biblical allegoric significance. For we have many allegoric biblical references to those who were double minded: "Moses, Moses" quite contrary; "Abraham, Abraham" quite contrary; "Simon, Simon" quite contrary; Also "Saul, Saul" quite contrary; Even "Jerusalem, Jerusalem" quite contrary. In Galatains 4 we find the mention of two Jerusalems: Jerusalem below (also called Babylon): in bondage (law) with her children: them; Compared with Jerusalem above: mother of us all. Jerusalem below is further described as "this Agar": Mt Sinai = The Law, or this of this/that, Which things are an allegory, and which things are as "contrary" as Life(Grace) or Death(Law), as contrary as Alive or Dead, Blessed or Cursed, Groomed or Gloomed, Uplifted or Depressed, Constructive or Destructive. When compared rather than mixed, Law is as God their Destroyer vs Grace is as God our Saviour. However perfection is not both (lukewarm, which is neither hot nor cold), but one only: "the only true God": the only wise God": "the blessed and only Potentate". So the only true God isn't two slices, but one slice. For a God who was both merciful and merciless could not be trusted to be merciful to all, especially if there is no respect of persons, which makes law merciless to all if the truth about law be known.

Dare to Compare Contrary Things:
Law worketh wrath is destructive.

Grace is sufficient is constructive.


Contrary Gods: Biblically two Gods (Law vs Grace) are opposed about them.
When looking closer at God in the Bible we find there are either two contrary Gods or one God that is contrary to himself. Further examination in the Bible reveals two contrary Gods opposed about them. One God concludes them all in unbelief and destroys all but eight souls. One God in Christ does not impute their trespasses unto them. Such contrary Gods are as contrary as law vs grace: impute sin or not impute sin. Such are allegorically this God and that God; "that God" being all light and no darkness at all, this God being both light and darkness, but the light of this God being also darkness as noted in Amos 5:18 and Matthew  6:23. So then the day of the LORD is darkness and not light, and another law is not light, but darkness.



Bible verses mentioning "contrary"

Interestingly, Leviticus 26 (Mosaic Law) mentions "contrary" seven times, and speaks of seven times more plagues; a good reason to flush law as dung (make law dead testator) to establish grace that is merciful, sufficient, and impartial:
1) Leviticus 26:21
And if ye walk contrary (q@riy) unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more 
                            plagues upon you according to your sins
.
2) Leviticus 26:23
And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me
3) Leviticus 26: 24
Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins
4) Leviticus 26:
27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
5) Leviticus 26: 28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times
                             for your sins

6) Leviticus 26: 40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which
                            they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me

7) Leviticus 26: 41 And I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity

Interestingly, there are also seven hebrew and greek meanings of the biblical word contrary:
1) q@riy (hebrew)
2) hephek (hebrew)
3) enantios (greek)
4) apenanti (greek)
5) para (greek)
6) antikeimai (greek)
7) hupenantios (greek)

Esther 9:1
Now in the twelfth month, that [is], the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)

Ezekiel 16:34
And the contrary (hephek) is in thee from [other] women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

Matthew 14:24
But the ship was now in the midst of the sea(humanity), tossed with (plural)waves: for the wind was contrary (enantios).

Mark 6:48
And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary(enantios) unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.

Acts 17:7
Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary (apenanti) to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, [one] Jesus.

Acts 18:13
Saying, This [fellow] persuadeth men to worship God contrary (para) to the law.

Acts 23:3
Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, [thou] whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary (not translated) to the law?

Acts 26:9
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary (enantios) to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Acts 27:4
And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary (enantios).

Romans 11:24
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary (not translated) to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural [branches], be graffed into their own olive tree?

Romans 16:17
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary (para) to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary (antikeimai) the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Colossians 2:14
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary (hupenantios) to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

1Thessalonians 2:15
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary (enantios) to all men:

1Timothy 1:10
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary (antikeimai) to sound doctrine

Titus 2:8
Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.


The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
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