Your earlier claims and question was...
As shown through the scriptures alone in the post that responds to the quote above from
post # 245 linked, it was shown that before the written word of God there was the spoken word of God. Your argument for trying to claim no one kept God's 4th commandment before Exodus is in fact an argument of silence as you have
no scripture to say that God's LAWS were not kept
before Exodus.
On the other hand you were provided God's Word showing that God's people who were given the
spoken word of God, "before" the written Word of God at Mt Sinai did indeed keep God's LAW's.
No one said these laws were exactly the same as the Mosiac laws. Your stating something I have never said therefore your making a strawman argument no one has ever said or believes and if I have never said as such why are you pretending that I have?
The spoken Word of God shows that before the written Word of God Abraham
obeyed God's voice (the spoken Word), and kept his charge, his commandments, his statutes, and his
laws. The Hebrew Word used here as shown earlier is תּורה תּרה; tôrâh tôrâh; to-raw', to-raw' From H3384; a precept or statute,
especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch: - law. *Genesis 26:5
This was provided to show that God's laws were given by the spoken Word of God before the written Word of God and to show that God's people knew about God's laws were before Sinai including the sin offereings or burnt offereing reguired for the forgiveness of sin *Genesis 22:3-13.
A burn't offering is a voluntarty freewill offering of dedication and what you leave out are for the
cleansing of sin..
“He shall lay his hand on the head of the
burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him
to make atonement for him. Then he shall kill the bull before the Lord” (Leviticus 1:4–5).
According to God's Word sin is the transgression of God's LAW *1 John 3:4; James 2:10-11. Burnt offerings under the old Covenant are for both dedication and for cleansing of sin (atonement). These of course are shadow laws pointint to JESUS as our true sacrifice for sin *John 1:29; Hebrews 10:1-10
As posted earlier your argument is one of silence as there is no scripture that says God's people by the spoken word of God did not know about or follow God's laws. Yet it is the word of God alone (not mine that says God's people before Exodus knew about God's laws and followed them *GENESIS 26:5; GENESIS 22:3-13 if they did not know what sin was there was no reason to have sin offerings.
The
knowledge of sin for God's people by the spoken Word of God before Exodus is also shown in GENESIS through Joseph...
Genesis 39:7-9
7, And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
8,
But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
9, There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife:
how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
If Joseph did NOT know God’s LAW then
how did he know he was SINNING against God by committing adultery with Potifer’s wife?
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CONCLUSION: SIN existed BEFORE Mt Sinai, SIN is disobeying God's WORD and breaking his law (Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7; James 2:9-11). Joseph knew that to commit ADULTERY (7th Commandment; Exodus 20:14) was SIN against God and refused not to SIN.
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Finally your claims to Romans 14 only show your reading into the scriptures something that they do not say. Where in Romans 14 does it say that it is talking about God's 4th commandment Sabbath? It doesn't. Happy to provide a detail look at Romans 14 showing all context if you like? Just let me know.
The scriptures are talking about food connected to days (eating and not eating (fasting) on days
men esteem over other days. Not what days God esteems and judging others.
The things that men esteem are an abomination in God's eyes.
LUKE 16:15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves
before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for
that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God
There is no mention in all of
ROMANS 14 of God's 4th commandment or any of God's 10 commandments. Your reading into the scriptures something it is not talking about.
