Did God abolish the Ten Commandments, leaving us to try to discern moral principles from nature or from philosophical speculation?
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Does the continuing obligation to keep the Sabbath depend upon the continuation of the penalties for Sabbath-breaking given to the Israelite theocracy?
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Here is section one of “Answers to Objections,” the 19 objections dealing with the continuing obligation of the moral law.
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Does Deuteronomy 5:15 mean that the Sabbath was intended only for the Jews, not for all mankind?
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Does the fact that the Sabbath law was given to Israel in the desert mean that it is only for the Jews?
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Did Moses make the Sabbath holy when he wrote Genesis, or did God make it holy at the creation?
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The bottom line on faith and works: we are not saved by keeping the law, but if we are saved, we keep the commandments of Him who loved us and died for us.
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Is the law only for the lawbreaker, or does it apply to everyone?
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Do Adventists teach law-keeping in order to be justified, or law-keeping because we have been justified through faith in Christ?
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Does preaching the continuing application of God’s law deprive us of Christian liberty?
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If we cannot be saved by keeping the law, what good is the law?
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Why do Adventists emphasize obedience to the law as well as faith in the saving gospel of Jesus Christ? And what produces sanctified works in the repentant sinner?
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Hasn’t Jesus’ commandment to love one another done away with the Ten Commandments?
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Did Christ set forth his own set of commandments that were intended to replace those given by God at Mt. Sinai?
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What about “the law of commandments contained in ordinances” in Ephesians 2:14 and the “handwriting of ordinances” in Colossians 2:14? Was not this law clearly done away with?
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Does Paul’s statement in Romans 7:4 that “you also died to the law through the body of Christ” means that the law of God has been done away with?
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Does Luke 16:16 “The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presses into it” abolish the law?
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Paul states that “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.” (Rom. 10:4) Does this prove that Christ abolished the law?
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What are we to make of Paul’s allegory in Galatians 4:21-31: Sarah and Hagar represent two covenants, Hagar from Sinai, whose children are slaves, and Sarah from the free Jerusalem above, whose children are free?
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Was the Ten Commandment law the “ministration of death, written and engraved in stones” that was “done away” with?
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