The "letter of the law" (first covenant) was called this because it was written down in the Hebrew language on scrolls.
I take it you didn‘t read the Scriptures I posted. It would have really cleared up your entire reply had you done so.
Can you please point out the words of the covenant , the Ten Commandments, where it was written on scrolls? God said He wrote His covenant, the Ten Commandments with His own finger
on stone and it says nothing about it being the law of Moses, God claimed them as His. Why do so many insist giving God’s work, His covenant that God claimed as His- MY covenant MY commandments to a human-being. Moses didn’t and he was there Exo 32:16.
Exo 31:18 And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony,
tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.
Deu 4:13 So
He (God) declared to you
His (God) covenant which
He (God)commanded you to perform, the
Ten Commandments; and
He (God) wrote them
on two tablets of stone.
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.
This first covenant was also called the Law and the Law of Moses by the first-century Jews because it was Moses who presented this first covenant to the Israelites.
I see your words here, not God’s.
I am going to stick with what God said, I trust He knows His own covenant and what it entails. He tells us in such clear words. Sad so many choose their own words over God’s. This is the core of the issue - faith comes by hearing the word of God, yet when God tells us in His word, even His own Testimony , sadly so many people lay it aside for their own teachings not found in God’s word. We were warned this would happen 2 Tim 4:3-4
Deu 4:13 So
He (God) declared to you
His (God) covenant which
He (God)commanded you to perform, the
Ten Commandments; and
He (God) wrote them
on two tablets of stone.
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.
It consists of about 600 written statutes and ordinances (commands) by which Moses yoked the Israelites because of their disobedience in the desert.
Again going off topic… and not all of the law of Moses is a yoke of bondage. For example, it contained the
blessings along with the curses for breaking God's commandments.
Peter's reply to the Judaizers:
Acts 15:4-11
When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the Church and by the apostles and the elders, and they gave a report of all that God had accomplished through them. 5 But some from the group of Pharisees who had become believers stood up and declared, “It is necessary for the Gentiles to be circumcised and ordered to observe the Law of Moses.”
Yes, the law of Moses is not the Ten Commandments. If you would read the Scriptures I posted in the reply you are posting to, you should be able to plainly see the differences from God’s own written and spoken Testimony . You did not engage in my post , just went on to other arguments that are already addressed in the post you are relying to. Nor did you answer the one question I originally asked.
Regarding Matthew 4:4:
Jesus answered, “As it is written:
‘Man does not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.’
Jesus spoke through His Holy Spirit to Peter and to the other apostles about which ones of the first covenant requirements were to be commanded for new covenant Gentile converts to Christianity:
Thats not at all what Jesus said. He said to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of
God, nothing about Peter. Peter is not God. Jesus was quoting OT Peter wasn’t even born.
Acts 15:28-30
It is the decision of the Holy Spirit and also our decision not to lay any further burden upon you beyond these essentials: 29 you are to abstain from food that has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of animals that have been strangled, and from unchastity. If you avoid these, you will be doing what is right.
Are there Saturday sabbath requirements and circumcision requirements commanded for Gentile Christians? No, there are not.
Where does it say Gentiles do not have to keep God’s commandments in this chapter? If you read in this very chapter they were keeping
every Sabbath Mat 15:21 Jew and Gentiles Acts 13:42 Acts 13:44 Acts 18:4 so it obviously does not say what you are claiming it says. If one beleives worshipping God on the day He set aside from the beginning as a blessing is a yoke or burden would certainly not be happy in the new heaven and new earth Isa 66:23
The Jews who lived at the time of Jesus' lifetime on earth called God's first covenant with the Israelites the "Law of Moses."
Again, nothing we can find in our Holy Bibles.
1 Corinthians 9:9
In the Law of Moses it is written, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned,
The law of Moses that is not the Ten Commandments Exo 20:1-17 Deut 4:13 Exo 34:28
One of the commandments in the Law of Moses:
Deuteronomy 25:4
Do not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
Nothing about muzzling an oz in the Ten Commandments. Yes that comes from the law of Moses as stated in the post you are replying to.
Luke 2:22
When the days for their purification were completed according to the Law of Moses, they brought the child up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,
Nothing about purification laws in the Ten Commandments, yes they come from the law of Moses. You keep proving my point.
In contrast, we have Jesus quoting directly from the Ten Commandments- calling them the commandment of
God. Moses while very important is not God.
Mat 15:3 He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress
the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4
For God commanded, saying,
‘Honor your father and your mother’; quoting Exo 20:12 and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’
Luke 24:44
Then he said to them, “This is what I meant when I told you while I was still with you: Everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”
John 7:23
Now if a man can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for making a man’s entire body completely healthy on the Sabbath?
Yes circumcision is not in the Ten Commandments but the law of Moses, again thanks for proving my point.
The New Covenant is also called the Law of Christ.
Galatians 6:2
Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:19-21
Although I am free and belong to no man, I have made myself a slave to all so as to win over as many as possible. 20 To the Jews, I became like a Jew in order to win the Jews. To those under the Law, I became like one under the Law—although I myself am not under the Law—in order to win over those under the Law. 21 To those outside the Law, I became like one outside the Law—although I am not outside the Law of God but am subject to the Law of Christ—in order to win over those outside the Law.
No where does it say in these verses, the New Covenant is the law of Christ- the New Covenant God said He wrote His laws in the hearts and minds of His New Covenant believers Heb 8:10, sadly many people rebel against God’s laws so they do not subject themselves to them and therefore, makes themselves an enmity to God Rom 8:7-8. God’s Laws went from tables of stone to tablets of the heart 2 Cor 3:3 Heb8:10 There is no dichotomy between God’s law and Christ’s law as if Christ is not God. God keeps His promises not altering His words Psa 89:34 Mat 5:18. God did not make a mistake in His own Law that He wrote and He spoke that is under His mercy seat. Sadly, just His rebellious children laying aside God’s commandments in lieu of their own man-made commandments Mark 7:7-13 Mat 15:3-14 the path Jesus said leads one to a ditch. It’s a hard teaching, but one I believe we need to take more serious. Again, it comes down to faith. Hearing, believing, doing what God said, not man. Mat4:4 The whole bible is about the testimony of God though His prophets and apostles, yet when it comes to God’s own personal Testimony written not by man, but the God of the Universe Exo 31:18, so many choose to not believe as if they can re-write the ending of the Bible on what He clearly tells us is going to happen. Mat 7:21-23 Rev 11:18-19 Rev 22:14-15 1 John 2:4. He tells us ahead of time because He loves us so much and longs for us to hear His voice and not harden our hearts in rebellion, sin, unbelief which is disobedience Heb 3:7-19 but have faith in Him and hear His voice and abide and follow Him John 15:4,5,10 1 John 2:6 that will only lead one on the narrow path back to reconciliation Rev 22:14
