Not so. All of the 10 Commandments are embodied in the Great Commandment, love God, love man.
Commandments 1-4: Love God.
Commandments 5-10: Love man.
The Function of the Law in the New Covenant
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by Reformed, May 1, 2018.
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Iconoclast Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
JonShaff,
You are branching off here....the discussion is concerning...LAW
Both you and Dave are drifting off.
Before I go any further.....let's clarify something...
All the people who lived prior to Moses.....the sinners.....
Did they sin?
What specific laws did they break when they sinned?
At the White Throne judgment......what kind of sins will they be found guilty of?
What boundary did they live under?
What could we call that boundary?
Does God supply a name for this boundary?
What standard are we told the unsaved even do almost by conscience alone?[rom2] -
Iconoclast Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
"1689Dave,
Dave,
Here are the same questions I posed to JON S....
All the people who lived prior to Moses.....the sinners.....
Did they sin?
What specific laws did they break when they sinned?
At the White Throne judgment......what kind of sins will they be found guilty of?
What boundary did they live under?
What could we call that boundary?
Does God supply a name for this boundary?
What standard are we told the unsaved even do almost by conscience alone?{romans2} -
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Iconoclast Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
I would suggest this;ibid
The Moral Law is epitomized in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments, and answers to the law ontologically embedded in man’s nature at creation as the image–bearer of God (Rom. 2:11–16). The Moral Law was neither formulated nor instituted at Sinai; rather, it was codified and epitomized at Sinai in the Decalogue. The Moral Law expresses the moral self–consistency or absolute righteous character of the triune God. The Moral Law was codified as part of the progressively–revealed redemptive purpose (Rom. 5:20–21). [All post–Fall Divine revelation is essentially redemptive in nature]. The Moral Law was revealed to Moses and given to Israel in a codified and epitomized or summary form. Israel, as the covenant people of God, formed the repository of the Divinely revealed and codified Moral Law until the gospel took the true knowledge of God and his moral self–consistency to all the nations of the earth. -
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From Steven Smith's Book--Recapturing the Voice of God
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Martin Marprelate Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
1. Jeremiah 34:13-14; Ezekiel 44:6-8; Hebrews 9:1 & 9:18 are Biblical commentaries on the Sinaitic Covenant , but clearly identify that covenant with other things than the Decalogue.
2. Jeremiah 31:31ff says that the Ten Commandments will still function in the New Covenant.
3. All the commandments in the Decalogue pre-date that covenant (Exodus 19ff).
1. You shall have no other gods before Me. Genesis 17:1.
2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image. Genesis 35:2.
3. You shall not take God's name in vain. Exodus 5:2.
4. Remember the Sabbath day. Genesis 2:1-3; Exodus 16.
5. Honour your Father and Mother. Genesis 9:22; 26:34-35.
6. You shall not kill. Genesis 9:5-6.
7. You shall not commit adultery. Genesis 39:9.
8. You shall not steal. Genesis 31:32.
9. You shall not bear false witness. Genesis 3:4-5.
10. You shall not covet. Genesis 3:6.
Also, I suggest to you that when Adam took the apple, he put Satan's word before that of God, made an idol of his stomach, dishonoured his heavenly Father, coveted that which God had withheld from him and stole it, and killed all his progeny. That's six of the ten Commandments broken 2,500 years before the Sinaitic Covenant.
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Iconoclast Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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God gave the Ten Commandments as a synopsis of the two great commandments at a level the unregenerate could obey. Paul calls them menstealers, disobedient whoremongers and so on. By them, God harnessed their evil promising material gain for obedience and threatening loss, even death for disobedience. These were not good people, but obeyed having ulterior motives. God did not need to tell the born again not to steal, it wasn't in their nature. The civil laws and ceremonies were an inseparable part of this Old Covenant. And served the purpose to control the wicked and to illustrate spiritual truth to the believers.
In fulfilling the two great commandments on the cross, literally loving his Father, and his enemies for whom he died, giving body, soul and strength, Jesus also fulfilled the Ten Commandments. Abolishing them and circumcision. Therefore officially ending the physical State of Israel. And leaving the spiritual in place under Jesus.
Jesus and the NT writers imported some of the moral aspects of the Ten Commandments into the NT, but only as commentary and instruction. And we use it for a guide. But interestingly enough, if we do the exact opposite of what the Ten Commandments forbade, we end up living the love motive found in the two great commandments. Instead of stealing, we give. Instead of killing enemies, we love them etc. But the Old Covenant was the ten commandments and that entire system passed away, being replaced by the new. Had the Ten Commandments continued, the ceremonies and civil laws would too, because you cannot separate them. James and Paul say if you keep one part, you must reject Christ and keep it all. -
“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 22:37–40) (KJV 1900)
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