The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880Various
Religion
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880
Various
Religion and science -- Periodicals
word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall
speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.” Now one of
two things is evident: first, all the laws that Moses gave in the name of
the Lord were His; or, secondly, Moses violated the law governing the
prophet. And if the record is false on this account, how can we trust it
in other respects? It is as easy to turn God out of all the pentateuch,
and put Moses into it, as to maintain the proposition that Moses had a law
of his own. Sabbatarians act the part of the unbeliever in getting the
Lord out of the law that was done away, and Moses into it. All that is
accredited to the Lord was His, otherwise the record is untrustworthy. If
our friend’s position is true, it follows that Moses is the sole author of
the sacrificial system of blood, without which there was no remission, and
thus the ancient remedial scheme falls, being without divine sanction. But
the Lord claims all that our friends hand over to Moses. The following
phrases are uttered with reference to the priests and other things: “My
priest,” “My sacrifice,” “Mine altar,” “Mine offering,” 1st Samuel, ii,
27-29; “The Lord’s pass-over,” Exodus, xii, 11; “The feasts of the Lord,”
Lev. xxiii; “My sanctuary and my Sabbaths,” Ezekiel, xxiii, 38. The manner
in which Sabbatarians emphasize the phrase “My Sabbath,” and “My holy
day,” is well calculated to mislead the unsuspecting, but those who are
schooled in biblical literature will regard it as mere _rant_, _cheap
theology_, _mere display_! All that Moses gave, as law, was from the Lord,
_was His_. “The Lord came down upon Sinai, and spake to them from heaven,
and gave them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and
commandments, and made known to them His holy Sabbath, and commanded
precepts, statutes and laws, by the hand of His servant Moses.” Nehemiah,
ix, 13, 14.
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