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Originally Posted by aron
This resulted in grievous misreadings of text. The OT promise of fealty and obedience often waved away as natural and fallen human attempts to please God, ignoring that the fulfilment was Christ – the NT use of OT makes this second approach plain. See Peter in his gospel message on Psalm 16, for example. The one who delights in God’s law in Psalm 1 – vain, per WL. But Psalm 1 goes to Psalm 2, the reigning King, obviously Jesus Christ per NT usage
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Actually Lee was definitely right in his assessment of the Psalms and David's natural and lawful concepts. Paul clarifies in Romans and Galatians that the law should not be uplifted and should not replace Christ
I think you're also doing a lot of weird leaps in logic here. Just because David in one Psalm expressed his natural fallen attempts at fulfilling the law, but at other times he expressed and uplifted Christ does not mean that the entire book of Psalms is supposed to be congruently cohesive in spiritual tone and efficacy. That's a logical error. David could be very fallen one day and very spiritual and ascended on another day, as can we all. And we see this a lot in the Psalms. We see a lot of David's negative fleshly concepts and a lot of his uplifting the law and trying to fit the mold of the law of God by his own efforts, etc. And then at other times we see him just transcending, even to such a point that Christ is speaking through him and they're one in their sufferings (see Psalm 22 which literally quotes what Jesus said on the cross, 1,000 years before Jesus was incarnated). That to me is solid proof that David was up and down in his experiences and this clearly came through in his writing