Thanks for the explanations, Pegg, but I have difficulty putting your statements together. I can understand this by itself:
And I can understand this by itself:
But I don't know how to put the two groups of statements together. In the first quotation, you say that the Ten Commandments are "a...
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That much makes sense to me. What baffles me is the...
I can't judge of the correctness of your account, but it sounds plausible and banishes much of the darkness that has covered this matter for me. In the case of the Ten Commandments, though, the first four are not moral laws but laws of worship.
Thanks, Biblestudent. I will have a look at that text, but a Scriptural reference doesn't necessarily answer my question. From the fact that some passage in the New Testament says X, one cannot infer that Christians believe X. Besides that, if I read the text, what I think it means may be...
I will confess right off that I have only distant and faint recollections of the New Testament, and I don't think I ever even read the whole thing; so please pardon me if there is some easy answer to my question that I have missed through ignorance of Scripture.
The books of Exodus, Leviticus...