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Originally Posted by grip_daddy
First I would like to know what intent God had in pronouncing the ten commandments to the Israelites in Person. After He Himself assembled these people, He spoke (see the words of James in James chapter 2) then wrote the same words in two tables of stone. The rest of the commandments were just written in a book by Moses as God said them to Him as opposed to God writing them Himself as He did with the ten commandments.
So if you could give me a reason for this distinction and specialty in treatment given the ten commandments, I would explain my understanding to the words, "law", "commandment", "ordinance", etc as found in the NT.
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Grip, the commandments in exodus 34 were written by God (in person).
And its interesting to note that when Jesus expounded on the (exodus 20) commandments in the Sermon on the Mount, he didn't mention the one dealing with the Sabbath.
I think one problem we have is that we have two different sources of authority. For you its the Bible only, and for me its the Bible and the Tradition of the Orthodox Church.