Mosaic Law

Many beliefs that cannot be grounded on Scripture are nevertheless very common among Christians. These beliefs might be part of the great deception Jesus warns us against (Mat 24:4). We call these beliefs obstacles - Here is one of them:

Obstacle 1: God’s Law Is Done Away With

Let me give you a few examples from Scripture that refute the notion that God’s Law as given to Moses and explained in the case laws in the Old Testament is not valid anymore:

• Exo 12:14 states that keeping the Passover is an everlasting ! ordinance.
• Look at Exo 20 and Deu 5: The Ten Commandments are to be kept throughout the generations.  God is a jealous God, He will show mercy to those that keep His commandments into the thousands generation, but if you work iniquity, that is, lawlessness, it will be held against you and your family for up to four generations.
• Lev 18 states that you are defiling yourself and the land by things abominable to the Lord, by lawlessness.
• Isa 24 shows that there is severe punishment for changing the ordinance as well as for breaking the covenant.
• Jesus Himself enforces the Law:

“For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.” (Mat 5:18)

• John stresses in his 2nd letter that the Law has been unchanged from the beginning:

“And now I ask you, dear lady–not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning–that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.” (2 Jn 1:5-6).

Christians really need to learn this, and learn it fast, if they are able. Time after time we are told by pastors, preachers, evangelists and others of a similar ilk that God (the King they say) did away with his own law. And yet, these devoted followers of Christ (who was God by the way) will, when confronted with concepts and commands from scripture that would be contrary to Man’s law, point to verses such as Romans 13:1 (God’s law?) that prove that they must obey the law of the state. To them, God’s law is a curse, a heavy chain, and a burden they cannot bear, while the law of the State is not. Preposterous!

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 1 John 5:2-3

When ever in the course of history has a king done away with his own law, and required his subjects to follow the law of another king? Nowhere that I have discovered, except in the case of Yahweh, as taught by modern Christianity and it’s neo-pharisaic rulers, and if ever it has happened (I’m no historian) then that king was most certainly a fool, and not a king for long. According to this convoluted logic of modern churchianity, Biblical Law (God’s Law-Word!) actually requires that God’s people to commit idolatry. God forbid!

Rushdoony, as always, had a few words to say on the matter of law.

“Law is in every culture religious in origin. Because law governs man and society, because it establishes and declares the meaning of justice and righteousness, law is inescapably religious, in that it establishes in practical fashion the ultimate concerns of a culture. Accordingly, a fundamental and necessary premise in any and every study of law must be, first, a recognition of this religious nature of law.” RJ Rushdoony, Vol. 1, The Institutes of Biblical Law, p. 4

Also:

“Modern humanism, the religion of the state, locates law in the state and thus makes the state, or the people as they find expression in the state, the god of the system.” Ibid. p. 5

So you have two options it would seem. Love God and keep his commandments, or love the State and all it has to offer. You cannot serve two masters. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!

Oh yea, one more thing for those who would say that Love conquerors all…

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not
murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment,
are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Romans 13:9

The first table of the law shows us how to love God, and the second table of the law shows us how to love the brethren. To think that we are left to our own devices, to whim and fancy and our own conscience about how to love God and the brothers is to buy the lie of the nachash, and to become like God, knowing (determining for ourselves) good and evil.

Rushdoony, Romans 13:1, 1 John 5

“A central characteristic of the churches and of modern preaching and Biblical teaching is antinomianism, an anti-law position.  The antinomian believes that faith frees the Chrsitian from the law, so that he is not outside the law but is rather dead to the law.  There is no warrant whatsoever in Scripture for antinomianism.  The expression, “dead to the law,” is indeed in Scripture (Gal. 2:9; Rom. 7:4), but it has reference to the believer in relationship to the atoning work of Christ as the believer’s representative and substitute;  the believer is dead to the law as an indictment, a legal sentence of death against him, Christ having died for him, but the believer is alive to the law as the righteousness of God.  The purpose of Christ’s atoning work was to restore man to a position of covenant- keeping instead of covenant breaking, to enable man to keep the law by freeing man “from the law of sin and death” (Rom. 8:4).  Man is restored to a position of law-keeping.  The law thus has a position of centrality in man’s indictment (as a sentence of death against man the sinner), in man’s redemption (in that Christ died, Who although the perfect law-keeper as the new Adam, died as man’s substitute), and in man’s sanctification (in what man grows in grace as he grows in law- keeping, for the law is the way of sanctification).”

RJ Rushdoony, Vol. 1, The Institutes of Biblical Law, p. 1-2,

antinomianism, Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law, Galatians 2:9; Romans 7:4