Please show me where the "Hand of God took away the 10 commandments. I will be the first to go back to the old life I left if this can be proven. Not because I liked my old life better, but because I can have and do whatever I want; Not only now, but for all of eternity and do it in the presence of an All HOLY GOD without any shame or remorse. If the Law is not eternal why did Christ, the Eternal Son of God, have to pay the price for our breaking the Law? This thinking concludes that His eternal sacrifice was not really necessary. Eventually, the price could be paid by ourselves, some other person, or another method. Is that really the position you want to take with regards to Salvation?
The times the covenant from Mount Sinai (the ten commandments) began and ended are well documented.
- Moses received it from God, and the during the second issue of the tables of stone God referred to the previous tables of stone Moses received with the Words of the covenant as the "first" (Exodus 34:1). Before the first issue that Moses broke, there was no ten commandments, and Moses testified in Deuteronomy 5:2-3 that prior to his own generation, the ten commandments didn't exist. The ten commandments originated when they were spoken from Mount Sinai and handed to Moses.
- Hebrews 8:13 states that the new covenant made the first covenant obsolete, and Hebrews 10:9 tells us that Jesus Christ took the first covenant away to establish the new covenant.
A covenant made with only one group of people (the children of Israel, Deuteronomy 4:8), with a documented beginning and end is not "eternal".
It appears that your whole argument is that the death of Jesus Christ accomplished nothing. You have not perceived His redemption that was caused by that event that established the new covenant.
Hebrews 9
13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,
14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
16 For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives.
Christ's death fulfilled the law and completed it, and by His death redeemed us from the law. Romans 7:6-7 supports this when it states that we have been delivered from the law, which is identified by quoting it: "
You shall not covet". That is a quote from Exodus 20:17 and Deuteronomy 5:21, found only in the ten commandments.
So, sadly, it is your understanding that the from the time of Sinai until the resurrection of Christ that the Jews were the ONLY people who had any hope of having a relationship with God? I assume nothing as to what you believe was nailed to the cross, you have plainly stated in your own words that it was the Moral Law of God as enumerated in the Ten Commandments. Of course, you have yet to produce any scripture or line of logic to back such an assertion.
Really.
My post contains 18 citations or quotes from Scripture, and you provided nothing to support your view.
Ephesians 2
11 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands—
12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,
15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,
16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.
Being an alien from the promises of God without hope during the tenure of a covenant conveys a certain demise, and that is confirmed as the Gentile's status prior to the Gospel in Romans 2:12: "
For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law". While we're on the topic of covenants, why do you suppose we're instructed to cast off the bondwoman in Galatians 4:30, which was defined as the covenant from Mount Sinai in verse 24 of this same chapter?
The
only covenant that came from Mount Sinai was the ten commandments, and Moses confirms that in Deuteronomy 4:12-13.
Indeed, so it is your position that since we cannot exceed the outward righteousness of the pharisees, there is no point in even attempting to keep any of the 10 commandments whether from fear, a human sense of duty or converted heart? This is the call of an unrepentant heart or an anarchist. I don't think you are either of those so you should rethink your position
God has not only
concluded everyone to be disbedient, but God has
committed everyone to disobedience as a condition of receiving His mercy in Romans 11:32: "
For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all".
Perhaps instead of asking others to re-think their position, you should learn what the Bible actually explains the Gospel to be.
Galatians 4
4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born[a] of a woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
This is the shortest summary of the Gospel in Scripture, and it places God's adopted children's jurisdiction under the law in the past tense. That is the former entity that held us in the past tense (Romans 7:6, Galatians 3:23) until faith in our redeemer came.
Galatians 3
24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
Couldn'thave said it better.
