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You are assuming that anything written by God's finger must last forever. This is pure assumption with no biblical evidence whatsoever to support this view. Where is the biblical evidence? What God wrote with His finger is not evidence.
That which was written was the letter of the law. We now live by the Spirit of the law. The letter is now obsolete.
He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant - not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life...if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone (the 10 commandments), came with glory...will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?...2 Cor 3:6-8.
God might have written the latter of 10 commandments with His finger, but we do not rely on the written letter anymore. We now rely on the Living Spirit; we rely on Christ.
This is not New Age theology; this is biblical facts.
Revelation says "the commandments". It does not say the 10 commandments.
Why do SDAs keep putting a 10 where the bible does not have a 10?
Don't you know you shouldn't add to the bible?
Yes, it seems as though every time God writes with His fingers it's associated with some kind of punishment.There are three times that it is written that God wrote with His finger..
The Ten Words on stone
The judgement on the wall of babylon
In the sand before those who want punishment inflicted and they are still full of sin themselves.
WordHe has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant - not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life...if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone (the 10 commandments), came with glory...will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?...2 Cor 3:6-8.
Which verse?The fact is that the 10 Commandments will be the standard in the judgment, see the book of James.
Wonder if it could be those in Reve 16:21There are three times that it is written that God wrote with His finger..
The Ten Words on stone
The judgement on the wall of babylon
In the sand before those who want punishment inflicted and they are still full of sin themselves.
The whole book?The fact is that the 10 Commandments will be the standard in the judgment, see the book of James.
What John saw in heaven was the eternal spiritual ark with the eternal spiritual and living law of Christ, and not a written law of 10 commandments.The fact is that that John saw the ark of the covenant in the heavenly sanctuary as recorded in the book of Revelation. And what is the contained in the ark of the covenant? The 10 Commandments!
Yes, it seems as though every time God writes with His fingers it's associated with some kind of punishment.
Word
Which verse?
The whole book?
Would you be so kind as to show me the verse, or even the chapter. Or maybe you can explain the book in your own words.
What John saw in heaven was the eternal spiritual ark with the eternal spiritual and living law of Christ, and not a written law of 10 commandments.
The shadow copy of 10 commandments that Moses lugged around with for forty years in the desert are not up there. God got rid of those along with the ark.
Why do you think no one can find the ark? It is for the same reason no one could find the body of Moses.
Moses represented the 10 commandment law, so did the ark. God buried them both somewhere so no one can ever rely on them again.
The lesson is that we are not to rely on the dead and buried 10 commandment law of Moses, but on the living spiritual law of Christ.
James 2:8 is describing the royal law found in Scripture, and not the written law found on stone.Doveman: You need to do more in depth study before you make such claims. You should know the texts that I'm referring to already, James is not a long book and its not hard to understand. Look at chapter 2 and verses 10 & 12; there James clearly shows that the Ten Commandments will be used in the judgment. .
Moses was not taken into heaven and shown the heavenly sanctuary.Regarding the ark of the covenant in heaven, have you not read in the book of the Hebrews where the author points out that God showed Moses the heavenly sanctuary and had him pattern the earthly sanctuary after what he was shown in heaven. See Hebrews 8:5, where it clearly saws that Moses was to make a "copy" of the heavenly things.
Moses was not taken into heaven and shown the heavenly sanctuary.
Moses was given a pattern. A pattern is not real. A pattern is a pattern. Moses made an earthly sanctuary according to the pattern. He did not make it according to the actual heavenly sanctuary in heaven which is spiritual.
Heaven is spiritual. There is no spiritual gold, or spiritual wood, or spiritual stones in heaven. Those things only exist in material form here on earth. He was given a pattern, and not the actual heavenly sanctuary.
Yes, it was symbolic, and not real.I'm sorry but I have to disagree. The bible says that the pattern Moses was given was based off of the heavenly sanctuary. God gave Him the pattern to use because it was meant to be symbolic of the heavenly sanctuary service.
I agree there is a sanctuary in heaven, but it's the real spiritual sanctuary of Christ, and not the symbolic sanctuary of 10 commandments.You are totally correct that there is no thing as spiritual material, at least from what we know. But the bible is clear that there is a sanctuary in heaven in which Christ works as our High Priest.
Yes, it was symbolic, and not real.
I agree there is a sanctuary in heaven, but it's the real spiritual sanctuary of Christ, and not the symbolic sanctuary of 10 commandments.
Yes, it was symbolic, and not real.
I agree there is a sanctuary in heaven, but it's the real spiritual sanctuary of Christ, and not the symbolic sanctuary of 10 commandments.
No.yes.
god be with you.
The Law being described here is not the 10 commandments, but the Torah, the entire writings of Moses, which included God's command as to how God wanted human excrement to be disposed of. That command is now obsolete.Mat 5:17-19
17"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Again, Christ is not describing the 10 commandments here, but the entire writings of Moses and the writings of the Prophets. Christ fulfilled or accomplished all that was written in them about Him.18I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. .
Notice that Christ did not say 'the least of these 10 commandments'. He said “the least of these commandments”. There is no 10 included in the text.19Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven." .
"In" and "out" are not relevant terms in heaven. Heaven is spiritual. It is not time bound or space bound, so "in" and "out" has no relevance. God Himself is the sanctuary.The bible doesn't teach that. It teaches that Christ is our great High Priest and is at work in the sanctuary right now, working on our behalf.
In the earthly sanctuary the 10 commandments were 'sat' on by God while they were in the ark. They were in the the ark in the middle of the sanctuary.And who said the 10 commandments were a symbol of the sanctuary?
"In" and "out" are not relevant terms in heaven. Heaven is spiritual. It is not time bound or space bound, so "in" and "out" has no relevance. God Himself is the sanctuary.
In the earthly sanctuary the 10 commandments were 'sat' on by God while they were in the ark. They were in the the ark in the middle of the sanctuary.
Christ is in the middle of the heavenly sanctuary. The 10 commandments were only a symbol of Him.
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