05-04-2008, 04:39 AM
Ndigila,
The people who insist that the Sabbath must be kept do not say that the other laws (laws outside the ten commandments as recorded in Exodus 20) must also be kept because of:
1. The civil laws were given as a guide to Israel as a nation...of which a particular nation can borrow when making their own laws, constitutions, and penal codes. Stoning to death was a method of capital punishment of which nations have diverse methods.
2. The laws (sacrifices, ordinances of days, sabbaths, offerings) were given to foretell the first coming of Christ, His ministry and death. At Christ's death, the laws ceased, or terminated (Daniel 9:24-27, Ephesians 2, Colosians 2, Galatians). These laws were not abolished as some may claim, but their usefulness had reached an end rendering them insignificant.
3. The difference between the ROYAL law is seen on the special treatment of the ten commandments. The ten commandments, all of them, are traceable back to creation, but the other laws came with the children of Israel forming a nation. So those not traceable to creation can not be said to bind non Jews.
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