p. 10 | The Ten Commandments

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 15, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 49.

The Ten Commandments

THIS is what one soul writes to the editor of a paper which conducts a Bible study:

“I have for the past fifteen years taught a Sunday-school that salvation is by grace through faith, and have shown that 2 Cor. 3:7-11 teaches that the Ten Commandments were done away, and that God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him should not

perish, but have eternal life. Yet I find from the Sunday School Times the statement that the Ten Commandments will be in force until the end of the world. Now these things confuse and ought not to be. M. M. I.”

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And the editor replies:

“This raises a question as old as the Christian church, and one that will excite discussion to the end of the age.”

Why did not that editor show that inquirer that God’s Decalogue, like Himself, is eternal; that it is easier for heaven and earth to pass than for one tittle of the law to fail; that the object of the Gospel is to place that law within our hearts; that only the carnal heart is opposed to the law of God? 2 Cor. 3:7-11 confirms the Ten Commandments.