The laws and commandments that were not a shadow or type of Christ. The passover was fulfilled in Christ and most of the cerimonial laws pointed to Jesus but the Sabbath started before we needed a saviour. At creation. The 10 commandments was not nailed to the cross. Killing is still a sin and taking the Lords name in vain is still a sin.
Jas 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
Jas 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
Jas 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
Jas 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Jas 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
So....
Another SDA....
What about this:
Matt 22:36-40 NKJV
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36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and great commandment.39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”"
Strange...
None of these are part of the ten commandments are they?
And what about this:
John 13:34 NKJV
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A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another."
Now this commandment was not even part of the law as given to Moses by God on Mt Sinai, is it?
Then we get to the puzzling reality that none of the texts you quote actually state that the commandments spoken of are, in fact, the decalogue....
Then another puzzle arises: Ellen G. White taught that what was referred to as the Law of Moses, was indeed nailed to the cross, but, the Law of God, defined by her as the decalogue was not.
Except for one teensy weensy fact - there is no Law of Moses and Law of God! Oh sure, the terms exist alright, the OT is replete with references to the Law of God and the Law of Moses. The problem arises when closely examines what is been referred to in these myriad of references one discovers that the terms are used interchangeably. So much so that NO pattern can be deduced.
The only conclusion to be drawn is that this distinction is totally false....
Ask any JEW about this issue and the answer is clear - there is the TORAH, nothing more and nothing less - on this issue I would take the word of a Jew any and every day of the week over yours (and Ellen G. White).
In, fact the reason why the Sabbath is not binding on Christians is actually very simple: The New Covenant abrogates, completely, the Sinaitic Covenant - not just parts of it:
Gal 3:16-25 NKJV
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[FONT="]16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,”[i] who is Christ.
[/FONT][FONT="]17 And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ,[j] that it should make the promise of no effect.
[/FONT]18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.[FONT="]19 What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.[/FONT]
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.
22 But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.
24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor."
The tutor is a reference to the whole law as given to Moses on Mount Sinai.
I hear the howls of outrage, I can hear the accusations of antinomianism echoing...
However there are plenty of references that very comprehensively lay out the moral framework for practising Christians.
(I wont give references for these for the sake of brevity.)
However, there is absolutely no reference to keeping the Sabbath as a New covenant requirement as outlined from Exodus 20:8, Hebrews 4:9 notwithstanding because it is NOT referring to the 4th commandment.
Furthermore, the Sabbath was to be a sign between God and the Israelites of the Sinaitic covenant. This covenant has been abrogated, and certainly, Sabbath-keeping is NOT the sign of the New Covenant!
In addition, the Sinaitic covenant was EXCLUSIVELY between the Israelites and God.
I am not an Israelite (Jew) and so have never been part of this covenant.
The Jerusalem Council detailed in Acts 15:6-29 explicitly affirms that in order to be a Christian one does not first need to become a Jew!
Paul's epistle to the Galatians ALSO clearly contradicts the claims of the Judaizers in trying to force non-Jewish believers to adhere to the Law. (Circumcision to a Jew is merely the most obvious evidence that one is faithful to the law - obvious because those who were not of the circumcision were not expected to obey the law!)
The whole law as given to Moses on Mount Sinai including the Ten commandments have been abrogated by the New Covenant. The New covenant is NOT lawless in the sense that New covenant believers do not have strong moral direction.
A simple illustration for this: If one moves from one's country of origin to another country, one is no longer subject to the laws of the first country but the second! Now, the laws in the second country may share similarities with the first and may also have significant differences...and so it is with the situation with the Sinaitic covenant and the New covenant.
While there are many similarities there are also significant differences, and one, among many others is the absence of the command to observe the Sabbath - this makes perfect sense since the New covenant would not include the unique sign of the Sinaitic covenant.
The ten commandments along with the rest of the Sinaitic covenant is exactly where it should be - safely nailed to the cross.....
