The Ten Commandments are the Covenant, did you know?
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It is interesting to learn look at some of the noncanonical writings, but the astute will agree with the reasons for not including them in the Holy Book.
Yes, whom Paul considered condemned in Galatians 1&5.
No, you have some reading to catch up on. Read the passages I cited and then you might understand what I meant.
The nt was written with only the old to reference.
Paul quoted the old heaps of times
The same God was leading in the OT and NT times
When people start to make the God of the NT different to the God of the OT they are interpreting things wrong.
Dispensationalism is a doctrine of Satan invented in the 1800s.
Mat 7:19-20
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Rom 16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
Obedience of faith.
You are saying that God's government is based on the 10 commandments. It is not. The law has a purpose. Once it has done its work, it becomes irrelevant.
You are the one who kept making a distinction between what was "under the mercy seat" (inside the ark) and the scroll of law written on papyrus which was placed beside the ark. You mentioned this a number times soI assumed you were making a point. Yet here you abandon your point by not differentiating between the spoken and written words of God. Well enough, I happen to believe that God's truth is the same no matter how He communicated it to us.
I agree that those who love God will obey Him. I called you a legalist because you make keeping Shabbat (which was required under the Law of Moses) a command for all New Covenant believers as a condition for their eternal salvation. I have never said "obeying God is bad and disobeying God is good" This is another one of your distorted straw man. As such, it does not represent what I believe nor, I imagine, does represent that of many here who disagree with the teachings of Judaizers.
The Judaizers were a group that arose in the early church as the message of the gospel spread beyond Jewish communities to Gentile (non-Jewish) believers. The central question was whether Gentile converts to Christianity should be required to observe the Mosaic Law, including circumcision, dietary laws, and other Jewish customs. This debate is recorded in the book of Acts and the Pauline Epistles. When the entire body of believers led by the apostles and elders, met to discuss this in Acts 15. they concluded that Gentile converts to the faith should not be burdened with the full yoke of the Mosaic Law. Instead, they were advised only to abstain from certain practices associated with idolatry and immorality (Acts 15:28-29) which, many times, included pagan rituals involving the consumption of blood.
Strangely enough, you have denied that circumcision is still a command although it had been mandatory under the covenants of Abraham and Moses. Apparently, your particular sect retains for itself the authority to pick and choose which commandments it must obey. Then you have the audacity to accuse non-Sabbatarians of being inconsistent.
What follows is another attempt to add credibility to your views by appending a list of scriptures which you present as proof. However, when these are examined they are found not to be relevant to your point. For instance, you cite
John 14:15-16
15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—
as if Jesus were telling His followers to keep the Law of Moses but He was not saying that. He was referring to obeying His own commandments which differed from the commands of Moses in that they included the promise of receiving the Holy Spirit.
When did Moses ever make such an offer?
Shabbat was originally about reflecting on God's power as creator and being thankful for the world He had made for us to live in. However, at that time (in Genesis 2) God did not issue a general command that all mankind must cease their own activities on the Seventh Day. That did not happen until after God had delivered Israel from slavery and made a covenant with them at Sinai.
…2The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3 He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today. (Deuteronomy 5:2)
Here, God says that the covenant of Moses (which included a commanded to keep Shabbat) was not made with ANYONE who preceded them. It was not made with Adam, Enoch, Noah or any of the Patriarchs which is why we read nothing about any of them keeping Shabbat. The covenant of Sinai was made exclusively with the generation who had been slaves (and their descendants) who were made to endure hard unceasing physical labor under Pharaoh.
In fact, God Himself told Israel explicitly the reason He gave them Shabbat;
15 Remember that you were SLAVES in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God BROUGHT YOU OUT of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. THAT IS WHY the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
(Deuteronomy 5:15)
God had no such reason to command any prior generation to keep Shabbat.
Just reading 2nd Chronicles and it mentions in Ch 5 and 6 about the ten commandments being the covenant with the children of Israel , Ch 5 v 10 and Ch 6 v 11 .
The Bible was written in human languages according to the conventions of human communication. One way of expressing ideas is through the use of synecdoche, which is a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole. Thus terms like The Law or the Law of Moses or the Book of the Covenant were often used interchangeably with the BOOKS Moses wrote which were also called the Book of the Law. All these terms were synonyms describing what Moses had written. When Paul wrote about the Jews habit of reading the Law he said they were "reading MOSES."
…14 But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed. 15 And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
(2 Corinthians 3:15)
Does this mean that the ONLY time the unbelieving Jews were spiritually blind was when they were reading the Torah but that when they read the Prophets their blindness went away?
Likewise the term "commandments" can be used to refer to the Covenant of the Law that included the commandments which Moses made with God at Sinai. However, the fact that is it is acceptable to use one word to represent a bigger system does not mean that a BLOOD COVENANT is exactly the same thing as the laws that govern it. Saying that would be the same as saying that the human marriage covenant is nothing but a set of rules. The covenants (of Noah, Abraham and Moses) was what formed their bond with God which necessarily brought its own requirements - the chief one being exclusive devotion to One over all others
The Bible was written in human languages according to the conventions of human communication. One way of expressing ideas is through the use of synecdoche, which is a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole. Thus terms like The Law or the Law of Moses or the Book of the Covenant were often used interchangeably with the BOOKS Moses wrote which were also called the Book of the Law. All these terms were synonyms describing what Moses had written. When Paul wrote about the Jews habit of reading the Law he said they were "reading MOSES."
…14 But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed. 15 And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
(2 Corinthians 3:15)
Does this mean that the ONLY time the unbelieving Jews were spiritually blind was when they were reading the Torah but that when they read the Prophets their blindness went away?
Likewise the term "commandments" can be used to refer to the Covenant of the Law that included the commandments which Moses received from God at Sinai. However, because it is acceptable to use a part of something to represent a bigger system does not mean that a BLOOD COVENANT is exactly the same thing as the laws that govern it. Saying that would be the same as saying that the human marriage covenant is nothing but a set of rules. The covenants (of Noah, Abraham and Moses) was what formed their bond of commitment with God which necessarily brought its own requirements - the chief one being exclusive devotion to One God over all others
A surp
A surprising number here have yet to realise that believers are beneficiaries of the New Covenant.
Never said it was a renewed covenant.
God said it was His Law that is to be in our heart. Jer 31:33; Heb 8:10.
That can be confusing for some and He knew it.
Why? Because some would cry what Law!
Others would say like @Sabbathblessings and @Vassel the answer to that question is the Ten Commandments.
And yet some would also say it is just the commandments repeated in the NT.
And even sadder some would say just love.
That is why God said what Laws beforehand in Deut 29:1- 30:14 There He said He shall make a New Covenant with the children of Israel before they entered into the promised land. He said besides the Covenant that He made with the children of Israel in Horeb, Mt Sinia. Deut 29:1. And God said in this Covenant He shall make an oath. And shall not just to the children of Israel but the STRANGER within the camp, from the hewer of thy wood to the drawer of the water Deut 29:11 AND neither with them only BUT WITH THEM WHO ARE NOT WITH THEM. And that my friends would mean that this New Covenant would be with everybody and anybody at anytime.
In this Covenant God said He makes an oath and this oath is revealed in Deut 30:6. There God says, He will circumcise the hearts of the children of Israel and the stranger within the gates and even those whom are not with them. And in this circumcision of the heart, the cutting away of the sins of the flesh, and that we be humbled and no more stiff necked Deut 10:16; Lev 26:41; Col 2:11 so that we Love the Lord our God He says, His Word is to be in our hearts and in our mouths that we do it. AND IN THIS OATH, THIS COVENANT HE REVEALS WHAT LAWS. God says, if we shall hearken, hear and listen in order to keep His Commandments and Statutes contained in the Book of the Law and turn unto the LORD our God with all our heart and soul We shall be blessed. Deut 30:9,10 And THIS COMANDMENT to keep His Commandments and Statutes contained in the Book of the Law, turning unto our Lord our God with all our hearts and all our souls is not hidden that we should have to call it down from Heaven or up from the depths of the sea that we may hearken, hear and do it. Deut 30:11-13 BUT the WORD, THIS COMMANDMENT to keep His Commandments and Statutes contained in the Book of the Law, turning unto our Lord our God with all our hearts and all our souls IS NIGH UNTO US! IN OUR HEARTS and IN our MOUTHS that we do it. Deut 30:14 THAT IS THE WORD OF FAITH IN WHICH WE PREACH Rom 10:6-8 adds as Paul paraphrases these text to draw our attention to Deut 30:6,9-14 so we thoroughly understand what it is Christ has done for us when He says that word is in our hearts. To even further emphasize the point of it all he adds in Rom 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto (INTO) righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For we are led by the Spirit and not by the flesh Rom 8:14.
Mind you it does not say the Commandments, Statutes and Judgements contained in the Book or the Law. The Judgements, those ordinances that dealt with when we sin ARE NOT MENTION in respect to the Word that God has placed in our hearts., Those Judgements that pertained to the Sanctuary and sacrificial service are not needed. Because the Blood of bulls and goats could never take away our sins. Heb 10:4 For by one offering He has perfected forever us who He has sanctified. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer sanctify to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ. Who through the Spirit eternal offered Himself without spot unto God shall purify our conscience, who we are, the inner man, the heart INTO THE SERVING the Living God. Heb 9:13-15 Once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin Heb 9:26 purify our conscience, our old man by the sacrifice of himself. FOR THIS CAUSE He is the mediator of the New Covenant that we may serve the Living God.
Shall we start in Hebrews then? Let's, the context to the veres you quoted pretty much starts right from the start. We see in verse that the context is the Priest and how it has changed. And because it has changed there must be a change also of the Law because the Law only spoke about Levites being Priests and our Lord Jesus was from the tribe of Judah.
Before we continue, are you with me so far?
Heb 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Heb 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
Heb 7:13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
Heb 7:14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
Heb 7:15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
This despite the fact that the book of Hebrews goes into great detail about the superiority of the New Covenant over the Mosaic covenant.