No more Ten Commandments?
Workers removing the Ten Commandments Monument from the rotunda of the State Judiciary Building at Montgomery, AL.
The prevailing belief today is that the law that God gave to Moses is no longer relevant to Christians today because, as they claim, Jesus Christ had abolished it. This is despite Christ’s clear and emphatic words to the contrary.
In His message in what is popularly known as the “sermon on the mount”, Jesus said:
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
The original Greek for the word “destroy” means loosen down, demolish or dissolve. So by Christ’s own declaration, the law will stay – as long as heaven and earth exist, at least!
That is so clear. Yet despite Christ’s clear statement, mainstream Christians believe the law had been abolished. Some even venture to say that it is wrong to keep the ten commandments!
In the next series of posts we will examine the arguments popularly used to “prove” that the Ten Commandments and the so called “Law of Moses” had been abolished.
