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| Pnoga Registered user Username: Pnoga Post Number: 15 Registered: 1-2007 |
Ok so what was included in the book of the law written by Moses and placed on the side of the Ark? Which eventually was copied and distributed everywhere, to kings, etc. Now the Ark eventually disappeared along with the 10 commandments right? So how is it we know about the 10 commandments? Are they not also written in the book of the law written by Moses? This same book we read and study, which is now made up of 5 books of the bible, which the Jewish call the Torah? Am I wrong to say that the 10 Commandments were also written in this book of the law placed on the side of the ark that was to be a witness against Israel? Thus when SDA's say that it was only the book of the law written by Moses, ceremonial laws placed on the side of the ark that was abolished at the cross, they may not realize that the 10 commandments are in that book too. otherwise when the Ark disappeared along with the 10, how do we know about them today? Are they not included in this book of the Law written by Moses that was in the side of the ark and copied over and over and handed down from generation to generation? Tell me what you all think? God Bless! | ||
| Jeremy Registered user Username: Jeremy Post Number: 2056 Registered: 10-2004  |
Pnoga, You're right--they were included in the "book of the law," and we can still find them there today in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. We don't even have those supposedly "eternal" stone tablets anymore! Jeremy | ||
| Asurprise Registered user Username: Asurprise Post Number: 161 Registered: 7-2007 |
Pnoga, a friend of mine gave a good response to what you said. If you don't mind, I'd like to share it here: He has it nailed. The book of the law that Moses wrote are the first five books of the Bible or the Torah or Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Yes, he is exactly right the 10 commandments were recorded in EX 20 and that is how we know of them today. Even Israelites could not look on the two tablets of stone as it was death to look in the Ark of the Covenant and it was death to even touch the Ark of the Covenant. The Jews have never ever made a distinction between God’s law and Moses’ Law as Moses got the Law from God - it was all God’s Law. There is no separation between Moral Law and Ceremonial Law to them either. It is all God’s Law. The words Moral and Ceremonial cannot even be found in the Bible. The so called ceremonial laws were never considered “ceremonial” to them as they were required to keep them and never really got the true picture of what these Laws shadowed. Circumcision, sacrificing animals and the Sabbath, etc were not considered to be ceremonial to them at all. They were kept or they were stoned. They took all of God’s Law very seriously. But no one has ever kept them perfectly, Not the 10 commandments and not the 600+ other laws except for the Lord Jesus Christ. He kept the 10 commandments and allllllllll of the rest of the law 600+ perfectly. He is the only one to keep the whole law perfectly. No one else ever will keep. If you think you can you are very foolish. Only by being IN Christ can we keep the law. Only IN Christ can we meet the requirement of God to have no sin at all. we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and yet IN Christ we have the righteousness of God. |
