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معارف اسلامی و الهیات::
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The same infinitely perfect and self-consistent decree ordains the moral law which forbids and punishes all sin, and at the same time permits its occurrence, limiting and determining the precise channel to which it shall be confined, the precise end to which it shall be directed, and overruling its consequences for good: "But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive" (Gen. 50:20).
(1) Because from its very essence the moral law demands absolute perfection of character and disposition as well as action.
It is also called a "legal covenant," because it demanded the literal fulfillment of the claims of the moral law as the condition of God's favor.
Man has no power, direct or indirect, to fulfill the moral law, or to accept Christ, or to change his nature so as to increase his power; and so can neither do his duty without grace, nor
It is of the essence of the moral law that it demands all that ought to be.
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