There it is, the term "shadow law". As if the law can be divided up between "shadow laws" and... not "shadow laws". This is a doctrinal workaround on your part to deal with these scriptures below. Which say "the law" (the whole law) with no qualifying, or limiting in what the Bible says, that you say we should not change (by adding or subtracting). For shame.
Not really, dear friend. I believe that the shame is all your side for trying to teach a false doctrine of lawlessness that has it's origin in Universalism and Genesis 3:1-5 but allow me to show why from the scriptures why your teachings are not biblical once context is added back into the scriptures you have provided here because it is actually the context that your leaving out of these scriptures you provide here that determines subject matter, meaning and interpretation of the scriptures. Or exegesis (reading out of the scriptures) as opposed to eisegesis (reading into the scriptures what the scriptures do not say and do not teach. I might brake this post down into two sections with a detailed scripture response to evaluate both scriptures you provide. Let's start in Hebrews... Part 1/2
Hebrews 10:1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
According to the scriptures there are many different kinds of laws under the old covenant. For example, these included...
*God's 10 commandments *Exodus 20:1-17 spoken and written by God alone that was the work of God alone given to His people *Exodus 32:16;
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Laws for remission of sins which included the Levitical Priesthood, the earthly Sanctuary laws which was a copy of the heavenly, the laws of animal sacrifices and sin offerings the laws for the annual festivals (e.g.
Leviticus 1:1-17;
Leviticus 2:1-16;
Leviticus 3:1-17;
Leviticus 4:1-35;
Leviticus 5:1-19;
Leviticus 6:1-30;
Leviticus 7:1-38;
Deuteronomy 16:16;
Leviticus 23:4-44;
Exodus 23:14-18;
Leviticus 16:1-34;
Leviticus 18:1-16;
Leviticus 21:1-24;
Leviticus 22:1-33;
Leviticus 24:1-23;
Exodus 25:1-40;
Exodus 29:1-46;
Exodus 21:18-19;
Exodus 22:15-29;
Deuteronomy 22:29;
Deuteronomy 25:2-3;
Deuteronomy 22:26;
Deuteronomy 32:38;
Exodus 22:27;
Leviticus 19:26-31;
Deuteronomy 18:11;
Numbers 18:1-32; Number 19:1-22;
Numbers 28:1-31;
Numbers 29:1-40;
Deuteronomy 12:1-32 etc etc),
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Civil laws for ISRAEL under the old covenant, health and hygiene laws (
Deuteronomy 16:18;
Deuteronomy 1:17;
Leviticus 25:14;
Exodus 22:9-14;
Deuteronomy 7:3;
Numbers 5:30;
Deuteronomy 24:1-4;
Deuteronomy 25:5-9;
Deuteronomy 14:22;
Leviticus 25:37;
Deuteronomy 23:20;
Exodus 22:24;
Deuteronomy 24:10-17;
Leviticus 19:35;
Deuteronomy 25:13-14;
Leviticus 19:13;
Deuteronomy 23:25;
Exodus 21:2-8;
Leviticus 25:39-53;
Deuteronomy 15:13-14;
Leviticus 25:46;
Numbers 27:8-11;
Exodus 21:33-36;
Exodus 22:4-27;
Exodus 23:1;
Deuteronomy 24:16;
Leviticus 25:23-29;
Deuteronomy 19:14;
Exodus 21:20;
Leviticus 26:25;
Leviticus 20:10-14;
Deuteronomy 21:23;
Numbers 35:25;
Deuteronomy 19:3;
Deuteronomy 16:1-22;
Deuteronomy 17:1-20;
Deuteronomy 19:1-21;
Deuteronomy 20:1-20;
Deuteronomy 21:1-23 etc etc),
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Laws for health and hygiene (
Leviticus 11:1-47;
Deuteronomy 14:3-21;
Exodus 23:19; Genesis 1:29;
Leviticus 7:23-26;
Leviticus 17:13;
Leviticus 19:26;
Deuteronomy 21:20;
Leviticus 12:1-8;
Leviticus 13:1-59;
Leviticus 14:1-57;
Leviticus 15:1-33;
Deuteronomy 14:1-29 etc etc).
Now we have
not even started talking about the
laws of the blessings and the curses for obedience to God's law or disobedience to Gods' law (e.g Deuteronomy 28 etc). So in the old covenant there were indeed different laws that God gave for different purposes.
It is the laws for remission of sins that are the shadow laws that prophesied of the coming Christ and what Jesus was referring to when he says that the law and the prophets were until John because it was these laws that were the shadow pointing to Jesus as Gods' true sacrifice for the sins of the world *John 1:29; 36 and Jesus as our true great high Priest who ministers now on our behalf in the heavenly Sanctuary that the earthly was only a copy of the heavenly Sanctuary that the Lords pitched and not man based on better promises *Hebrews 7:1-25; Hebrews 8:1-6.
The book of Hebrews is not divided in chapters it is one long epistle and teaching and teaches the what has been shared with you here in regards to the shadow laws for remission of sins being fulfilled in Christ. For example (please prayerfully read it for yourself), Hebrews 7:1-25 talks about is talking about the change of the Priesthood fulfilled in Christ as our true Great High Priest. Hebrews 8:1-13 show us that the earthly Sanctuary is only a copy of the heavenly Sanctuary that the Lord pitched and not man. Hebrews 9:1-27 shows us that Gods' true sacrifice for the sins of the world is fulfilled in Jesus, while Hebrews 10:1-22 is talking about the
laws for remission of sins and animal sacrifices and sin offerings which is the subject chapter context and subject matter of the laws being discussed here where it is written...
HEBREWS 10:1-3 [1],
FOR THE LAW HAVING A SHADOW OF GOOD THINGS TO COME, and not the very image of the things, CAN NEVER WITH THOSE SACRIFICES WHICH THEY OFFERED YEAR BY YEAR CONTINUALLY MAKE THE COMERS THEREUNTO PERFECT. [2], For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. [3],
BUT IN THOSE SACRIFICES THERE IS A REMEMBRANCE AGAIN MADE OF SINS EVERY YEAR.
Note: What is the law that is being referred to here that was a shadow of things to come? "CAN NEVER WITH THOSE SACRIFICES OFFERED YEAR BY YEAR CONTINUALLY MAKE THE COMERS THEREUNTO PERFECT. So the the law being referred to here is not God's 10 commandments it is the Mosaic laws for remission of sins and animal sacrifices and sin offerings for atonement of sin under the old covenant. Context is to the day of Atonement.
HEBREWS 10:6-10 [6], In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure. [7],
THEN SAID I, SEE, I COME IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME, to do your will, O God. [8], Above when he said,
SACRIFICE AND OFFERING AND BURNT OFFERINGS AND OFFERING FOR SIN YOU WOULD NOT, NEITHER HAD PLEASURE THEREIN; WHICH ARE OFFERED BY THE LAW; [9], Then said he, See,
I COME TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD. HE TAKES AWAY THE FIRST, THAT HE MAY ESTABLISH THE SECOND. [10], By the which will
WE ARE SANCTIFIED THROUGH THE OFFERING OF THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST ONCE FOR ALL.
Note: The scriptures here in Hebrews 10:6-10 show that these laws for remission of sins under the old covenant were the "Shadow laws" that pointed to Jesus. Note in the volume of the book it was written of me he takes away the first so that he might establish the second, we are now sanctified by the offering of the body of Christ once for all. No more animal sacrifices and sin offerings. Yep the old covenant laws for remission of sin sin offerings and the Priesthood were all shadow laws now fulfilled and continued in Christ.
to be continued...