There has always been a tension for Christians when it comes to the Law of God. Right back to the earliest days of the church, the question of the Christian's relationship to the Law has been an issue of contention. As early Acts 15 the apostles had to make a decision concerning how much of the Law Gentiles were obligated to obey. When I am asked this question, I typically answer "None of it. . . and. . . All of it." Now in this post I want to focus on the none of it side and in a later post I will address the all of it response. When the question of the Christian and the Law arises, I find I am often faced with two false assumption. First, people tend to assume that the Law was created by God to allow mankind to gain eternal favour with God. The thinking goes, "If I keep the Law God is happy with me and if I break the Law God is happy with me." Therefore, I must obey the Law to make God accept me. Unfortunately this assumption reduces G...