ok, like i said, we disagree.
contrary to what you say, the Sabbath rest of God has not happened yet, don't forget that we are currently living in the times of the gentiles.
the Sabbath rest will be ushered in at the establishment of the kindom. so, the sabbath is still binding pointing to that time. the sabbath is still the sign that identifies God's people, the church.
i'm just glad, that i'm not one who dares to post, that the law of the living God is done away with and we currently have no way to define sin. believe you, me, i don't want to be in that number.
you say that there was no law in the garden of eden, yet i showed proof that they were married, gen 3:4. i showed where paul mentioned that there was a law that bound them together in rom 7. there was a law in eden that bound their marriage.
like i told you before, i'm not going for the banana in the tailpipe. you can, but i won't.
Matthew 19:3-9 ( NKJV ) 3The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?
4And He answered and said to them, Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? 6So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.
7They said to Him, Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?
8He said to them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.
you can parse all you want, but marriage was instituted by God from the beginining, like verse 4 said.
and remember?
Genesis 1:27-28 ( NKJV ) 27So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28Then God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
now we know He didn't mean go fornicate. they were married and there were laws in place to govern, rom 7:2.
now, look at how Jesus answered the question posed to Him in verse 7, "wasn't like that from the beginning"! obviously, in the beginning you couldn't just up and divorce your wife.
that had to be according to the law! the law did not permit it!
the ten commandments were in force then, because it is the law against adultery that binds the marriage by law rom 7:2. this is the same way the COI was bound to the living God, but we know that they commited spiritual adultery.
the law was in force in eden, way before mediation at mt. sinai.