I didn't elevate one portion of scripture above another, God did. God did not allow humanity to author the Ten Commandments by mouth or writing even by inspiration or vision as He did all the rest. He came down to earth in person and personally spoke and wrote it for us. This makes it different than all other scripture which was by inspiration or a vision from God. I'm not the one ignoring the obvious here. I do not negate the words of Christ pertaining to man living by every word which proceeds out of the mouth of God, but simply point out a distinction within the same which God Himself made.
What kind of question is that? What does it pertain too? Do you mean to say one can worship God while ignoring what He has commanded? Who worships the commands of God, rather than God HImself? Is it not those who make their observance their salvation? No one can be saved by keeping God's commandments, but a great many can and will be lost by ignoring them.
Just what do you think the righteousness of Christ is my freind? Christ perfectly obeyed the commandments of God in our fallen human flesh, because we could not. He did not do this so we could or would continue to ignore God's commandments, but that we might join Him in keeping them.
Heb 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7 ¶ Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 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; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
We could not perform God's will in our sinful flesh, which is the keeping of the commandments of God, therefore Christ came to perform the same for us. Not that we might continue in sin, but that we might join Him in righteousness.
Rom 8:1 ¶ There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Those who keep the law as a means of salvation neither do keep it or are saved, they are trying to live by the letter of the law. The law is spiritual, and its purpose is first to lead us to the cross of Christ where we might die the spiritual death which is unto salvation. If you do not understand this, then you do not understand the gospel of Jesus Christ. The law leads us to Jesus Christ and Him crucified unto salvation over and over again. The law is spiritual, it is those who try to be saved by it that make it of the letter instead of the Spirit. Its purpose never has been and never will be to save us, but rather to lead us to Christ who alone saves. It is the essential standard that leads to Christ.
Rom 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. 14 ¶ For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
The law is spiritual, we are carnal. It is the carnal heart that seeks salvation by the law, the spiritual heart is lead to the cross by the law. It responds to the conviction of the law by the Holy Spirit of God, by seeking the promised Messiah. Not that the law can continue to be ignored or used improperly, but that it might be obeyed by submission to and by Christ who alone ever did or will fulfill it. Those who refuse to die the death of Christ though, will not either have the life of Christ in their stead.
Rom 6:1 ¶ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Those who do away with the law, do away with the conviction of the Holy Spirit of God regarding sin. Thus they will not seek forgiveness or repentance according to the Spirit, or obtain the same. Dying in Christ that He might live within is not a one time experience, it is the continual experience of the saved. Those who do away with the law, do away with that which ever convicts them of their need for Christ in both death and life.
2Cor 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Those who will not die with Christ, will not have His life within them either. Those who ignore the law, will not be lead to the cross by it either.
Even if what you are proposing were true, do you think they caught God by surprise on this one? Do you think He didn't know that they would be afraid and tell Moses to speak to them instead of God? Of course He did, and then He knew also that He would not speak the civil and or ceremonial laws of Israel to them with his own mouth. Nevertheless, it is highly unlikely that the scenario played out as you suggest. What do you think the Israelites did, do you actually think that they interupted God while He was speaking and told Moses to tell God to speak through him to them and not to speak to them Himself? Get a grip, God was already done speaking to them, which is why they had a chance to ask Moses to speak with them instead of God. Just because they asked for this when God stopped speaking, doesn't mean that God intended to go on speaking to them in the frist place. To the contrary, I think it absurd to believe that they interupted God and told Him not to speak to them. This would not have gone over well at all.
Once some Israelites touched the arch of God when and how they should not have and they were immediately destroyed. Once two of the HIgh Priests sons burned incense when and where they were not supposed to, and they were immediately destoryed. Here now you think all Israel interupted God while He was speaking while the mountain He was upon was shaking, burning, and smoking like a chimney stack, without any consequence but God HImself stopping His speech to them. Really?
