Here is Deuteronomy 4:2;
You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I am commanding you
Now then, where does Deut 4:2 restrict the scope of what we are not to "subtract" to the 10 commandments?
It's not restricting but it most certainly includes. Seriously, what man could possibly improve on something God personally spoke and personally wrote with His own finger and in doing so would make them above God.
What many fail to understand is the earthy temple was an exact replica of God's Heavenly Temple Hebrews 8:5 God's Holy Commandments are in the ark of the covenant and are revealed in heaven Revelation 11:19 and what the earthy temple was modeled after exactly, so what God wrote and God spoke and placed in the ark of the covenant in the Most Holy of His temple is exactly what is in heaven unchanged.
The burnt offerings are ordered by God, so how are they not commandments? Are you seriously suggesting that they are not commandments because they were "handwritten" by Moses?
I am not suggesting this, scripture is....
Neh 9:13 “You came down also on Mount Sinai, And spoke with them from heaven, And gave them just
ordinances and true laws, Good statutes
and commandments.
Exodus 12:43 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This
is the
ordinance of the
Passover:
Ezekiel 43:18 And He said to me, “Son of man, thus says the Lord God: ‘These
are the
ordinances for the altar on the day when it is made, for sacrificing burnt offerings on it, and for sprinkling blood on it.
Here is something from Exodus:
10 “Then you shall bring the bull in front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull. 11 And you shall slaughter the bull before the Lord at the doorway of the tent of meeting. 12 Then you shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. 13 And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the [f]lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and offer them up in smoke on the altar. 14 But the flesh of the bull and its hide and its refuse, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
Whose words are these? Moses? Aaron?
No - there are the words of
God. If God says "do X", how is that not a command?
It's an ordinances and this was after the fall of man because man broke God's law and sinned. This is for the forgiveness of sin which pointed to Jesus.
To the neutral reader, it will certainly seem that you are trying to have your cake and eat it - you want to include the 10 commandments within the implications of Deut 4:2, but you also have to exclude the burnt offerings.
Because its not a commandment as clearly shown through the scripture
How do you justify such selectivity? Are you going to concede what I have proven in this post: if you are going to invoke Deuteronomy 4:2 to argue that we cannot subtract out the Sabbath, you also cannot subtract out the sin offerings - they are both commandments from God.
The sin offerings pointed to Jesus who became our Sacrificial Lamb and ended at the cross Col 2:14-17 Hebrews 10:1-10 and we no longer sacrifice animals for the forgiveness of sin, we can go directly to Jesus. Sin is still the same as it always been and it is breaking God's law 1 John 3:4 and Paul quotes directly from the Ten Commandments to point out sin Romans 7:7 which James says if you break one you break them all James 2:10-12
You have to know this (now at least), but I am sure you will dance. Just as you danced away from the argument about Romans 3:28-29.
No dancing, just using plain scriptures from the Word of God.
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