Body: | Click to View Seventh-day Adventists are quick to point out that Ten
commandments are quoted in the New Testament.
Actual Adventist false argument: The New Testament quotes several of the 10
commandments proving that all 10 are binding today including the Sabbath!
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False argument answered:
While it is true that the New Testament quotes several of the Ten
Commandments, the 4th commandment, (the Sabbath) IS NEVER quoted! The
Sabbath law is never even quoted in the New Testament, instead, it is said
to be abolished: Col 2:14-16
If we follow Adventist logic when they say, "if something from the
Old Testament is merely quoted in the New Testament means we must keep them
today", then we must keep the Jewish feasts of Passover (Acts 12:4),
Pentecost (Acts 2:1). Why Jesus even commanded animal sacrifices! (Matthew
8:4) Yet keeping Jewish feast days are forbidden in Gal 4:10, even though
the new trend in Sabbath keeping churches is to wade deeper in to the
waters of judaizing.
According to twisted Sabbatarian logic, if quoting "Thou Shalt not
covet" in the New Testament binds the whole 10 commandment law; then
quoting "Love your neighbor as yourself" binds the whole book of Moses. If
quoting some of the "ten commandments" binds the Sabbath day, then quoting
some of the laws in the "book of the law of Moses" binds the entire
"ceremonial law" (as Sabbatarians incorrectly call it). What proves too
much proves nothing at all!
The two greatest moral commandments are not found in the ten
commandments: Jesus said the greatest commandment was not part of the 10!
Mt 22:36-40 (Too bad for Sabbatarians: Great place for Jesus to quote the
Sabbath law!)
Commandments only mentioned collectively twice in new testament:
both times abolished! (Hebrews 9:1-4 and 2 Corinthians 2). The ten
commandments (tablets) are part of the first covenant that was replaced by
the new covenant of Heb 8:13
Notice that the Ten Commandments were the first abolished covenant:
Heb 8:13 "When He said, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete.
But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.
"Now even the first covenant had ... the TABLES OF THE COVENANT." Heb 9:1-4
2 Corinthians 3:2-11 The abolished Old Covenant was the 10
commandments:
2 Corinthians 3:2-11
Old Covenant
New Covenant
Written with ink
Written by the Spirit of the living God,
Written on tablets of stone
Written on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.
Of the letter that kills
of the Spirit that gives life
Ministry of death, written and engraved on stones
Ministry of the Spirit
Was glorious, had glory
More glorious, exceeds much more in glory
Ministry of condemnation
Ministry of righteousness
Is passing away
Remains
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"you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth" Jn 8:40
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