Oh - further to my last post, the 'Royal Law'? don't you just think you should explain exactly how you came up with THAT description? and just how did you come to the conclusion that'blood sacrifice got more than a little out of control'? By who's standards? the Blood Sacrifice Committee?
The royal law is based on this passage.
Jas:2:8:
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,
ye do well:
Jas:2:9:
But if ye have respect to persons,
ye commit sin,
and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
Jas:2:10:
For whosoever shall keep the whole law,
and yet offend in one point,
he is guilty of all.
Jas:2:11:
For he that said,
Do not commit adultery,
said also,
Do not kill.
Now if thou commit no adultery,
yet if thou kill,
thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Jas:2:12:
So speak ye,
and so do,
as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
How about the 'fine flour' substitution was rarely used, would that be enough, if not how about this references. the very last one came into effect at the time of the cross.
Heb:10:8:
Above when he said,
Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not,
neither hadst pleasure therein;
which are offered by the law;
Isa:1:11:
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?
saith the LORD:
I am full of the burnt offerings of rams,
and the fat of fed beasts;
and I delight not in the blood of bullocks,
or of lambs,
or of he goats.
Isa:1:12:
When ye come to appear before me,
who hath required this at your hand,
to tread my courts?
Isa:1:13:
Bring no more vain oblations;
incense is an abomination unto me;
the new moons and sabbaths,
the calling of assemblies,
I cannot away with;
it is iniquity,
even the solemn meeting.
Isa:1:14:
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth:
they are a trouble unto me;
I am weary to bear them.
Isa:1:15:
And when ye spread forth your hands,
I will hide mine eyes from you:
yea,
when ye make many prayers,
I will not hear:
your hands are full of blood.
Isa:1:16:
Wash you,
make you clean;
put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes;
cease to do evil;
Isa:1:17:
Learn to do well;
seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed,
judge the fatherless,
plead for the widow.
Isa:66:3:
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man;
he that sacrificeth a lamb,
as if he cut off a dog's neck;
he that offereth an oblation,
as if he offered swine's blood;
he that burneth incense,
as if he blessed an idol.
Yea,
they have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Rather than reply to your previous post I tried to make it clear that the 10 commandments have to deal with how God judges a person's conduct. The 600 other laws are guidelines to how neighbors should treat other neighbors. So they are both morality laws but there are two separate ones they are meant for.
