20/05/2024
MORAL LAW OR CEREMONIAL LAW. WHO SEPARATED THE LAW? This was one of the first things I realized that started my journey out of Adventism. I couldn't find a clear answer to what is the ceremonial law, and what is the moral law. How do I know what stays in the new covenant and what goes, or is it all picking and choosing to support an agenda?
If the distinction is the Ten Commandments versus all the other laws, then that keeps the sabbath but gets rid of hating your neighbor, homos*xuality, premarital s*x, beating someone up, destroying someone's property without stealing anything, killing or hurting someone's animals, etc.
If the distinction is those laws which pertain to morality and are commands for all people not just Jews are the moral law, and the ceremonial laws are those which are laws about worshiping God and were given specifically for the Jews and those that followed God. If this is the case then all the feast days, sacrifices and ceremonies would be gone but so would the sabbath and possibly the rest of the first four commandments.
If the distinction is simply those we deem moral vs those we deem ceremonial, then the distinction is completely subjective and honestly it should still include the sabbath as a ceremonial law.
Once I realized none of these options made logical or theological sense I couldn't just accept it as fact from my SDA teachers.