Eph 2:15 proves the 10 commandments are abolished! |
A. "Commandments contained in ordinances" refers specifically to the 10 commandments:
The Ten texts where the 10 Commandments are called, Statutes, Ordinances and Decrees. To the shock and horror of Seventh-day Adventists, they will learn they have been lied to by their leaders and that the 10 commandments are the ordinances that were abolished in Col 2:14 and Eph 2:15.
Deut 5:1 The Ten commandments are called "My statures and all My ordinances"
Ezekiel 20:19-21 The weekly Sabbath is called "My statures and all My ordinances"
Mal 4:4 Book closes with a call to keep "statutes and ordinances" which obviously include the 10 commandments because it would be unthinkable for such a doxology to leave them out completely!
Neh 9:13-14 the weekly Sabbath is included without distinction: "right judgments, true laws, good statutes, commandments"
Lev 19:1-37 The Ten commandments and the ceremonial law are mixed together without distinction and called "My statures and all My ordinances"
Deut 5:1-6:25: Two whole chapters that deal exclusively with the 10 commandments and the following 5 terms are used interchangeably without distinction: "statutes", "ordinances", "commandments", "judgments", "testimonies".
Lev 23 The Weekly Sabbath is lumped in with all the yearly Sabbaths without distinction and they are all called "The Lord's appointed times" and "holy convocations".
Ezek 20 calls the first and fourth commandment, "My statutes and My ordinances"
Neh 8 uses interchangeably without distinction, the following terms: "the book of the law of Moses", "the law", "the book of the law", "the law of God", "book of the law of God" and includes
B. Keyword connections of Eph 2:15 with other texts
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Found in Texts |
How Adventists interpret |
Abolished (Strongs #2673) |
Eph 2:15 |
Ceremonial law |
certificate of debt |
Col 2:14 |
Ceremonial law |
commandments in ordinances |
Eph 2:15 |
Ceremonial law |
C. Greek word study
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Eph 2 |
Col 2 |
2 Cor 3 |
Rom 7 |
Abolished (2673) |
abolished v15 |
"Canceled out" "Nailed to cross" v14 |
done away, fades away v7,11,13,14 |
released v2,6 |
CHEIROGRAPHOS (5498), a handwriting |
the enmity v15,16 |
"Certificate of debt" v14 |
ministry of death |
The law |
the Law of commandments |
v15 |
- |
Tables of stone |
"coveting" |
Decrees (1378) |
v15 |
v14 |
- |
- |
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