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Off the top of my head, the people were slaves prior to Exodus, God then gathered the people and began forming a nation, that required giving the people a common set of laws and educating them in who God is in contrast to the gods of the nation they had been living in.
There were laws/regulations before God established the 10 Commandments.
The law was introduced as the covenant of blessing and cursing and applied only to Israel. You will find no reference to God's law prior to God giving the commandments to Moses. God gave instructions, such as to Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, but they were not Law in the sense that they were a set of rules.
Laws are created because there are transgressors. At the time the Sabbath was instituted, it was a radical idea to have one day off a week. At the beginning of Genesis, not so much. The law in this sense is more like "doctor's orders"
The word "Sabbath" first appears in Exodus 16:23 - Then he said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.
The same author who wrote Exodus is the same author who wrote Genesis. Once the Word reveals the meaning of something it doesn’t change the next time you see it.
Actually no that is not true and your quite wrong here but let me explain why if it might be helpful. According to the scriptures on the creation account of the "seventh day" in Genesis 2:1-3, the Hebrew words used in Genesis 2:1-3 translated in English as "rest or rested" is שָׁבַת (shâbath | H7673), which is a Hebrew verb for keeping Sabbath and means Sabbath keeping. So שָׁבַת shâbath (rest) is the root word of how the sabbath is kept by "resting" which is a verb form or what it means to keep the Sabbath or Sabbath keeping. The noun form of this word is שַׁבָּת (shabbâth | H7676) why the description of what is being kept by resting which in English is translated as "Sabbath" which simply is a noun meaning from one Sabbath (seventh day) to the next Sabbath (seventh day). So there was no Sabbath (noun) at creation because the Sabbath had never previously been creation. Sabbath keeping by resting therefore comes first (שָׁבַת (shâbath | H7673). So sabbath keeping came first then the noun or description of what was being kept came afterwards. Jesus also tells us in Mark 2:27 that the Sabbath was made for mankind in Mark 2:27 and according to the scripture God made the Sabbath for all mankind at creation *Genesis 2:1-3
This is simply untruthful and neither is it biblical but allow me to explain why from the scriptures if it might be helpful. According to the scripture, the Sabbath was made before sin and before law as a part of creation on the "seventh day" of the creation week *Genesis 2:1-3. There was no sin, no law, no Jew, no Israel, no Moses, only Adam and Even that God created on the sixth day of the creation week in Genesis 1:26-31 who were sinless and walked and talked with God in no need of salvation from sin because when the Sabbath was made for them they had not sinned therefore were in no need of "shadow laws" pointing to the coming Savior from sin. It is impossible for God's creation Sabbath to be a "shadow law" of anything because it was made before the fall of mankind and sin and before any laws were given because of sin. Gods Sabbath that God blessed, on the "seventh day" of the creation week and set aside as a holy day of rest was a memorial of creation so it points backwards not forwards to things to come and it was a day set aside by God for mankind to rest with God. All the Mosaic "shadow laws" for remission of sins were made after the fall (sin) entered the world pointing forward to the coming Messiah and Gods' sacrifice for the sins of the world once and for all (John 1:29; Hebrews 10:10). The Sabbath was made before sin and before law pointing backward to the finished work of creation, not forward to things to come when there was no sin in the world and no laws and plan of salvation given to mankind because of sin. According to the scriptures before the written word, Gods' people had the spoken Word of God handed down from parents to their children. According to the scriptures it is written that, "Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." - Genesis 26:5. Your teachings are not biblical or supported in scripture.
Brother, yes! The human race will end without love. Because of the increase in sin, our love from God grows cold.
They were fourth generation descendants of Abraham over 200 years later when they went to Egypt.
There were no laws given directly from God until Exodus. The seven laws of Noah are from the Talmud and are extra biblical. Once the Mosaic laws were given, Israel became a Theocracy until the first King was raised demanded by the people. Before the law few were found righteous. After the law even fewer.
I couldn't care less about the Talmud which was written by men. Only the Bible, thank you.
And yes, of course basic things were a given. Like don't slaughter your brother when he [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]es you off. Mom and dad might get upset. And Sabbath means "to cease, desist."
Correct, and the Sabbath didn't apply to man until the law of Moses.
