Do Christians Have to Obey the 10 Commandments?

What about those 10 Commandments? Are Christians required to observe them all, including the law of Sabbath?

There are some who make a distinction between the Law of Moses and the 10 Commandment Law. First off, I want to see what the Bible says about that.

The reason I even got wrapped up in the issue of the 10 Commandments and the issue of the Sabbath keeping cults was largely because of a 7th Day Adventist I know who thought we'd be a trophy family for their dwindling group.

I'm not going to dwell on the food laws that some of them observe, but suffice it to say, we as Christians were warned that in the last days some would forbid to eat meat( 1 Timothy4:1-6) What I struggled with was the usual tactic employed by cults to change the accepted meanings and interpretations of words into fodder fit for their own use.

For instance, the term "the law" suddenly develops a multitude of new meanings under the interpretation skills of the Adventists. The law is no longer just "the law". Now there is "the Law of Moses", and the "law of sin and death" and "the law of God", and "the 10 Commandment Law", and depending on what the Adventist wants you to believe about a Bible passage, the interpretation varies.

So, rather than give a ton of instances, I went to see what God says about "the law", and specifically "the 10 Commandments".Jesus declared the 10 Commandments to be the Law of Moses when he said

Mar 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Mar 7:10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

And Joshua declared Moses' Law to be one and the same with the 10 Commandments
Jos 8:30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,
Jos 8:31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
Jos 8:32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
Do you think that he wrote all 600 plus laws of Moses there or just the 10 Commandments?

You see, the 10 Commandments are not for the Christian, but for the unregenerate. If you are a Christian, you are no longer under the Old Covenant, which is the 10 Commandments.
Deu 4:13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

Exo 34:27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
Exo 34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Notice in Exodus 34:27, that God commanded Moses to write the words. Those words became the Book of the Covenant, or the Law of Moses. The law of Moses is the complete instruction on how to keep the 10 Commandments. It is why we cannot do it, and why Christ had to die. We are all condemned under the law, we are guilty of being unable to keep His laws. We deserve death, as the author of Romans said " "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God". There is none righteous, no not one.

Dan 9:10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Dan 9:11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him



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