Yet Paul separates them
1 Cor 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.
Because God did.
What number do you see here?
Exo 34:28 So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Deut 4:13 So He (God) declared to you His covenant which He (God) commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He (God) wrote them on two tablets of stone.
There is a law that defines sin and a law that was added because of sin- so no not all the laws are the same. God's law didn't start in Mt Sinai, it was a sin to commit murder with Cain. Without law there is no sin Rom 4:15 so obviously God's law started before sin because it defines what sin is. Sadly many get the different laws confused but they are not the same. The Ten Commandments is part of the law of Moses, its part of everyone's law because God is King and A King has laws, God didn't leave it up to man to write His holy and righteous law, that is perfect converting the soul, He wrote them and called them God's commandments, not the law of Moses. Moses is not God. Just like Paul is not above God t countermand anything God commands.
1 Cor 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.
Because God did.
What number do you see here?
Exo 34:28 So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Deut 4:13 So He (God) declared to you His covenant which He (God) commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He (God) wrote them on two tablets of stone.
There is a law that defines sin and a law that was added because of sin- so no not all the laws are the same. God's law didn't start in Mt Sinai, it was a sin to commit murder with Cain. Without law there is no sin Rom 4:15 so obviously God's law started before sin because it defines what sin is. Sadly many get the different laws confused but they are not the same. The Ten Commandments is part of the law of Moses, its part of everyone's law because God is King and A King has laws, God didn't leave it up to man to write His holy and righteous law, that is perfect converting the soul, He wrote them and called them God's commandments, not the law of Moses. Moses is not God. Just like Paul is not above God t countermand anything God commands.
To bad that there's no scripture regarding two seperate Old Testament laws in place. And Heb 10: 1-4 referring to all of the OT law tells us:
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
This is referring to all of the law and the prophets, not just the ten commandments which is the corner stone of what followed.
Whereas the New Testament lets us know that once we have faith in Jesus as our Savior, we are no longer under the law. I challenge you to show us how the ten commandments are exempt from being our schoolmaster...
But regarding the New Testament, we're told in Heb 9: 14-15:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
The law, including any part of the law, is unable to purge our consciences from dead works; whereas the New Testament made alive in us by faith in Jesus' sacrifice, makes us inherently able to serve the Lord in Spirit and in truth since we've thereby obtained justification, redemption, and a clear conscience. When a priesthood has been changed, there is of nescesity a change in the law. So in Christ we no longer use the standard of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life; but rather turn our cheeks seventy times seven. No longer are we only not to commit adultry, but rather we're not to look on another with lust or we've committed adultry in our hearts. No longer are we not to murder; but if we hate another, we've committed murder in our hearts. The standard for following the Holy Spirit transcends the standard contained in the law much as the Spirit of the law transcends the letter of the law. Our standard becomes "whatsoever is not of faith, is sin," and our consciences becomes a tool used by the Holy Spirit to bring us to righteousness.
Regarding the saboath itself, Jesus said that: "the sabaoth was made for man and not man for the sabaoth." By the Holy Spirit who indwells us, a greater than the sabaoth is here. We've become living temples of the Lord, holy as he is holy by the Holy Spirit who is now within us. One might say that, in Christ, every day is a sabaoth unto the Lord, and a good day to do good by serving those whom the Lord loves, by following the Holy Spirit's leading, and to worship the Lord in Spirit and in truth.
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