For hundreds of years the church has been bobbing and weaving around the Law (Commandments) of God by falsely interpreting what both Old Testament and New Testament writers proclaimed in the Holy Bible. Today’s ministers use both Old and New Testament passages to “disprove” the stone-etched Law written by the Word (the God of the Old Testament Who came to earth as Jesus of Nazareth) who commanded that His personally written Law be OBEYED FOREVER WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A JOT OR TITTLE (TINIEST MARK) BEING CHANGED, ADDED OR DELEATED. Read The God of the Old Testament. Key word–Old.

According to modern day Adams, the Law was “bad” and was, in fact, our enemy. The Law, we have been told for almost 1900 years has no part to play in the life of the true saint, who can break it and will “… not surely die.” According to all Law-rejecters, this “truth” lines up with the Word of God. With a tiny exception, those who claim allegiance with the Biblical God and His Son “know” that the Law was made void by the death of Jesus of Nazareth. Therefore any reference to God’s Law is to be ignored in that it has been replaced by a much more user-friendly, believer-optional, salvation-guaranteed, group-sensitive series of suggestions guaranteed to place the belier on the highway to heaven as soon as he/she completes the prescribed man-dictated ritual. Each church having its own version, its own god and its own savior, it of necessity has its own specialized rules of engagement based on each groups version of “truth,” commonly known as “church doctrine.”

Though the groups (churches, denominations, faiths, etc.) have very little to do with each other, these law-less (iniquitous) organizations do share several beliefs and customs, some of which are listed on the homepage of this website. When the protesters (protestants) left the mother church under the leadership of Martin Luther they took many of her Scripture-defying beliefs and practices with them. These supposed “truths” had been borrowed from numerous heathen religions that the mother church had embraced over many years.

We will now examine some of the Old Testament and New Testament Scriptures (Jn. 17:17) to see which ones the church uses to supposedly “prove” that the Ten Commandment Law does not apply to the New Testament Church BECAUSE IT WAS, AND IS, “NOT GOOD.” In Ezekiel 20:24,25 the Lord is quoted as saying about the ancient nation of Israel: “Because they had not executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes and polluted My Sabbaths and honored their fathers’ idols, I GAVE THEM UP to statutes that were NOT GOOD and judgments according to which they were NOT TO OBEY.” At first glance, the Lord does appear to have given His chosen people bad laws by which to live. However, if we use God’s study method as commanded in Isaiah 28:9-13, and search out the clearest translations of the Hebrew text available such as the New King James and New Living Translations, we find more accurate translations of Ezekiel 20:24,25. They, like the writings of the Apostle Paul, paint a different picture relative to the Law.

We will now examine some quotes from both testaments in order to determine what the writers believed about the Law of the Lord. King David wrote in Psalm 19: “The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul …. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the command of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. They are more to be desired than gold, yes, more than much fine gold. They are sweeter than honey and the honeycomb (vss 7-11).” We are warned against breaking them and told that the keeping of them brings great reward (7-11). Also read verses 97 to 100, 127 and 128. David was “a man after God’s own heart.” Could he be so wrong about God’s commandments? Would David have called them “not good?”

Relative to the goodness of the Law, the Prophet Isaiah was led to prophesy that the Messiah would come to earth to “MAGNIFY THE LAW AND MAKE IT HONORABLE” (Isa. 45:41). Was the prophet lying? Wasn’t he one of those about whom the Apostle Peter was writing when he stated that “Holy men of old spoke (and wrote) as they were moved by the Holy Spirit” (2 Pet. 1:21). Was the Holy Spirit lying? Writing about the same situation, God says in Psalm 8:11,12: “But My people would not hearken to My voice; Israel would have nothing to do with Me. Therefore I GAVE THEM UP TO THEIR OWN HEARTS’ LUSTS SO THAT THEY WALKED ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN REASONINGS. In other words, they would not obey His Laws and statutes, so He GAVE THEM UP (TURNED THEM OVER) TO THEIR OWN LAWS AND STATUTES WHICH THEY THEMSELVES HAD CONCOCTED.

In writing to the once godly sinners in the church at Rome, the Apostle Paul noted in chapter one that such people “BECAME vain” and their foolish hearts “were DARKENED” (1:21). They “BECAME” fools (vs 22). In verse 24, 26 and 28 he noted that God “GAVE THEM UP (OVER) to the desires of their lustful hearts (minds). Clearly these people had once been keepers of God’s Law but had turned away from Him. For this reason He had allowed them to do what they wanted to do. Read about the five foolish virgins in Matthew 25 whom God allowed to follow their own hearts to their spiritual deaths. They, like the people in the Rome Church, had turned from the Lord and to Satan, just as had their original parents in the Garden of Eden.

The statutes spoken of in Ezekiel 20:25 are not God’s Laws, but were the laws and statutes of men which were “not good” and would lead to their deaths (Prov. 14:12). Nothing–neither the Law nor the Giver of the Law–has changed. The command is the same and the rewards or curses for obeying or disobeying it is the same. In this sense, we are the determiner of our present and future destinies.

What do the New Testament writers, who also wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, have to say about the Law of God. In First John 3:4 we find that the Law of God defines sin and righteousness: “To transgress the Law is sin; for sin is the transgression of the Law.” The opposite of sin is righteousness. Therefore, to obey the Law is righteousness. The Apostle Paul, by the Holy Spirit, said that the Law of God was HOLY, JUST AND GOOD (Rom. 7:12). In 2:13 he said that only the DOERS OF THE LAW can retain their justification. Read Matthew 10:22, 7:13,14 and 22;14. Just hearing and believing His Word/Law/Truth accomplishes nothing. The Apostle James said that those who do not obey the Law are DECEIVING THEMSELVES (1:22). Jesus said that we prove our love for Him by OBEYING THE LAW (Jn. 14:15), that we can be His disciples only by OBEYING THE LAW (Jn. 8:31); that to receive eternal life, we must KEEP THE LAW (Mat. 19:17); and that to remain in His love we must OBEY THE COMMANDMENTS (Law), just as He remained in God’s love by KEEPING THOSE SAME COMMANDMENTS (Jn. 15:10). AS A MAN JESUS HAD TO OBEY GOD’S LAW IN ORDER TO REMAIN IN HIS LOVE AND TO BECOME MANKIND’S MESSIAH. If Jesus had failed we would not have a Savior. Nothing has changed. We must obey God’s Law in order to remain “in Him” and “in Christ” and to qualify for salvation upon His Second Advent.

The church says that none of the above is true. Who do you believe? Your answer will determine your eternity. L.J.