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Originally Posted by BlackCalvinist The moral laws are all repeated in the NT. They would typically classify the Sabbath as being a part of the ceremonial law (with the Deut. 5 version as justification), saying it was given to Israel, not the church. | Hmmm ... ten commandments on tablets of stone, but one was apparently written in chalk.  | Tom, comments like this are part and parcel of the reason why many dispy folks run the other way from covenant theology and discussions on Calvinism. They show a lack of grace, charity and the maturity in Christ that should mark an elder or one who has held the office.
No dispy that I've ran across believes it was written in chalk. Rather, it was fulfilled in Christ...along with the rest of the ceremonial law. |
Of course they do. The ten words are not ceremonial law. That is plain from all the language surrounding their institution and maintenance. The dispy cannot get around that fact.
So it is difficult to take their hermeneutical system seriously when they make such claims, their radical Israel/Church dichotomy being preeminent. Within their faulty system, Sabbath is absolutely part of old Israel.
I think they are running away because they cannot stand the rigor of covenant theology and its implication for how we deal with all the Bible. I know because I have interacted with enough of them (and I used to be one many moon ago).