DISAGREE? Please show scripture to disprove this post and show where God's word says none before Moses followed God's LAW (TORAH)
Gen 26:5 is not proof of anything....
The word law is used but that does not prove that it is a reference to the TORAH.
In fact it CANNOT be a reference to the Torah because the Torah was given to Moses on Mount Sinai - not a moment before!
You cannot provide any Scriptural evidence that Abraham or any other individual prior to Moses had any knowledge of the Torah, or kept the Sabbath!
If there was you would have gleefully pointed it out.
Nothing mentioned in Gen 26:5 can be used as proof that Abraham kept the Torah or observed the Sabbath.
All of your huffing and puffing and numerous Scriptural quotes to try and bolster this position that the Patriarchs were in possession of the Torah all fall flat because you cannot point to ANY Scripture which details them receiving it.
Nobody denies that sin was present prior to the reception of the Torah on Mount Sinai. It entered the human race as documented in Genesis chapter 3. All it took was a single command from God that was broken. Neither Adam nor his wife were in possession of the Torah - they had no need of it!
Your belief that Abraham or any other of the Patriarchs were in possession of the Torah and observed the Sabbath is the purest speculation on your part....
The first mention of the Sabbath is Exodus 20:8 - and that is that.
There is absolutely no evidence of Sabbath observance prior to this otherwise YOU would provided the Scriptures, but they simply don't exist.
The Torah is NOT eternal and unchangeable in the way that the SDA Church insists.
It was temporary first of all, and it was the detail of a covenant that was made exclusively between God and the Israelites.
Paul, in explaining the purpose of the Law, also highlights its temporary nature:
Gal 3:19 NKJV
"19 [FONT="]What purpose then [/FONT]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."
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If the Law was added it could only be that there was a time when it did not exist.
Does it have an expiration date?
Yes!
And Paul details this too!
"till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made"
The Seed is Jesus Christ and righteous requirements of the Law were met on our behalf by Him on the cross.
Gal 3: 24-25 NKJV
"[FONT="]24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. [/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="]25 [/FONT][FONT="]But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]"
As New covenant believers we are not under the Law as given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai.
So, New covenant believers are NOT subject to the Torah.
The Torah is NOT eternal, or eternally binding as the SDA Church tries to insist otherwise there was no way that Paul could write what he wrote in Galatians chapter 3.
The Patriarchs were NOT in possession of the Torah and could not have observed its statutes, much less observed the Sabbath, and no amount of twisting Scripture by the SDA can make it that way.
I am hugely confident that if such Scriptures existed that the SDA would have them up in lights with a fanfare of trumpets![/FONT]