Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: pgaughan@nmsu.edu (Patrick Gaughan) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Eternal Law of God (Why the Mosaic Law) Message-ID: Date: 7 Oct 89 23:12:31 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 34 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu >The mosaic law is never equated with the eternal moral code which operated >from the very beginning of human history. Although they were not written >down until Mount Sinai, the Law of God was understood and honored by the >earliest patriarchs. True, but the eternal moral code was never equated to the Ten Commandments either. I agree that the patriarchs knew the commandments and laws of God from the very beginning, but that the law WAS the Ten Commandments is not self evident. For example, there is no reference of the patriarchs observing the sabbath before the law of Moses. Here is one reference to the passing of the old law that I have not seen used yet: "But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?" 2 Corinthians 3:7,8. He refers to the law written and engrave in stone. That seems like a very clear reference to the ten commandments and the rest of the law. In fact this verse is alludingecifically to the ten commandments since it is refering to the time when Moses' face shined so brightly that it had to be covered (Exodus 34:29-). I am not saying that the all of ten commandments are not to be observed. At least nine of them are repeated as principles of the new law. Observance of the sabbath is not. "Let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths" Patrick Gaughan (pgaughan@nmsu.edu)