We have been released from the law

Although the subject of the letter to the Romans has already been addressed, I'd like to return here to a phrase regularly repeated by evangelical Christians: the famous "we have been freed from the law".

Romans 7:1-12
1 Do you not know, brethren, for I speak to those who know the law, that the law exercises its power over man as long as he lives?
2 Thus, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he is alive; but if the husband dies, she is released from the law that bound her to her husband.
3 If, therefore, during her husband's lifetime, she becomes another man's wife, she will be called an adulteress; but if the husband dies, she is freed from the law, so that she is not an adulteress by becoming another man's wife.
4 In the same way, my brothers, you too have been put to death by the body of Christ with regard to the law, so that you may belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, so that we may bear fruit for God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions provoked by the law acted in our members, so that we bore fruit for death.
6 But now we have been freed from the law, having died to that law under which we were held, so that we serve in a new spirit, and not according to the letter which has grown old.
7 So what shall we say? Is the law a sin? Far from it! But I have only known sin through the law. For I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, "You shall not covet.
8 And sin, seizing the opportunity, produced in me through the commandment all kinds of lusts; for without law sin is dead.
9 But when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

10 So the commandment that leads to life was found to lead to death for me.
11 For sin seizing the opportunity deceived me by the commandment, and by it killed me.
12 The law therefore is holy, and the commandment holy, just and good.

In the first two paragraphs of Romans 7, Paul isn't talking about the commandments of God's law at all! Paul explains very clearly what he's talking about: he's talking about the law that binds the wife to her husband. Not the law as a whole. If a woman becomes the wife of another during her husband's lifetime, she is an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is freed from the law that bound her to her husband, so she is not an adulteress. Reread the biblical text to check!

If you really think that the wife is released from the law when her husband dies, this means that Paul is teaching that according to God's law, widows are released from God's law and can therefore indulge in orgies, summon the dead or kill their mother-in-law!
It's ridiculous and senseless! Assume the absurdity of what you teach and what you believe! The widow is not freed from the law: she is simply freed from the law that bound her to her husband. Period.

In the same way that Christ freed us from the law of death and sin, He did not free us from the law of God! The 613 Commandments are still in force, more than ever!

May God give you the intelligence to understand His Word!

P. Clémentine