Jul 11, 2026 · 41 min · 10 segments
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Are we still under the law in our current age, our current dispensation? We are currently in the sixth dispensation.
We are currently in dispensation number six, that of the church.
And we will obviously talk about that down the road a bit.
But the question is, are we still required to obey the law? Are we still under the law? And as I said, the answer is pretty simple.
Because we already have a definition of the law.
And that's one of the valuable things about this website and podcast and blog, faithbyreason.net, is that we provide...
It's part of our systematic breakdown, our logical systematic breakdown of Christian philosophy.
As a part of that, we provide definitions, objective, logical, non-contradictory, Bible-based definitions.
sounding terms.
And because we have these definitions, you don't have to worry about interpretation and all these, you know, the misnomer that there are various interpretations of the Bible.
We can never really know what it means.
Of course we can know what it means.
We've talked about this before.
And once you have those definitions, All you have to do to know if something is biblically true or not is just take that Bible-based, non-contradictory definition and compare it to the reality of the question you're asking, and you get your answer.
Very simple.
And we can easily do that for the law.
So let's do that by looking at what we've learned in the past few podcasts is the purpose and definition of the law, and then just apply it to the question of whether or not we are still obligated to do those things in this current dispensation.
So, as we've talked about before in these past few podcasts, the law serves three purposes.
Purpose number one of the law is to give a definition of sin.
They had no comprehensive definition for sin.
Are we still under the law in our current age, our current dispensation? We are currently in the sixth dispensation.
We are currently in dispensation number six, that of the church.
And we will obviously talk about that down the road a bit.
But the question is, are we still required to obey the law? Are we still under the law? And as I said, the answer is pretty simple.
Because we already have a definition of the law.
And that's one of the valuable things about this website and podcast and blog, faithbyreason.net, is that we provide...
It's part of our systematic breakdown, our logical systematic breakdown of Christian philosophy.
As a part of that, we provide definitions, objective, logical, non-contradictory, Bible-based definitions.
sounding terms.
And because we have these definitions, you don't have to worry about interpretation and all these, you know, the misnomer that there are various interpretations of the Bible.
We can never really know what it means.
Of course we can know what it means.
We've talked about this before.
And once you have those definitions, All you have to do to know if something is biblically true or not is just take that Bible-based, non-contradictory definition and compare it to the reality of the question you're asking, and you get your answer.
Very simple.
And we can easily do that for the law.
So let's do that by looking at what we've learned in the past few podcasts is the purpose and definition of the law, and then just apply it to the question of whether or not we are still obligated to do those things in this current dispensation.
So, as we've talked about before in these past few podcasts, the law serves three purposes.
Purpose number one of the law is to give a definition of sin.
They had no comprehensive definition for sin.
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