having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us, and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Colossians 2:14? NASB
It ? What is ?it??? What is nailed to the cross?? According to the Greek text in this verse, it (autos) is the cheirographon, the hand-written certificate of debts.? Isn?t that clear enough?? What Yeshua nailed to the cross (metaphorically) is our debt accounting record, the record of all our sins that condemns us.? Yeshua took away that piece of paper that said, ?You owe.?? But if you read this verse in the NIV, there is a significant change.? The NIV says, ?having canceled the written code with its regulations.?? According to the NIV, the Torah was nailed to the cross, not the debts we accumulated due to disobedience but the regulations themselves!? This mistaken translation (or was it deliberate?) finds its way into popular Greek lexicons too.? Thayer?s Greek Lexicon suggests that Paul applies cheirographon metaphorically for ?the Mosaic law.?? In other words, some Christian theologians and translators simply converted a document that specified our debts into the entire legal system of rules.? That?s like going to traffic court with a speeding ticket and claiming that the ticket in your hand is the equivalent of all traffic regulations, and then telling the judge that none of them are valid.? What do you think the judge is going to say?? The ticket might not be correct but that doesn?t imply that the rules of the road are worthless.? The fact that you hold a ticket in your hand means that the rules do apply.? The only question is whether or not you are guilty of breaking them.
The idea that God instructions are ?nailed to the cross? or discarded is based on ignoring the meaning of cheirographon, the debt certificate.? My traffic ticket is a debt certificate.? It is not a copy of the traffic laws of the state of Florida.? I have the ticket because the laws are in place.? If someone comes into the court and pays the fine for me, I am no longer held liable under the law, but that doesn?t mean the rules went away.? It only means that I didn?t pay the fine!? As long as a debt certificate isn?t equivalent to the legal determinations it stands on, voiding the debt certificate will not erase the legal structure.? And in the Bible, my sin is not the same as the Law that tells me I have sinned.
In the NIV, you are actually reading the interpretation and theological position of the translators.? Unless you could read the Greek, you would never know this isn?t a translation.? Thousands of Christians have been taught that the Law was nailed to the cross when Jesus died.? They have been taught that the Law was replaced by grace and that no Christian has any obligation to the Torah.? How could they know anything different when the translators change the meaning of the verses?? We are called to correct this.? We must take a stand on cheirographon.? The Law, the Torah, matters.? God?s instructions are firmly in place, written so that you and I and all the nations will know how to live.? Grace is insufficient!? Grace is completely sufficient for our redemption, our deliverance, but it is insufficient for instructions for living.? We need God?s instructions in spite of our sins.? And fortunately, He provides them.
Topical Index:? Colossians 2:14, cheirographon, debts, Torah, grace
Source: http://skipmoen.com/2011/06/18/the-certificate/
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