The Moral and Ceremonial Laws

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 12, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 28.

The Moral and Ceremonial Laws

The distinction between the moral law of God and the code of ceremonials and civil regulations of the Mosaic dispensation was marked very distinctly. The one was written on tables of stone by the finger of God (Ex. 24: 12; 32: 15, 16; 34: 1; Deut. 10: 1-4). The other, altho dictated by the Lord, was written in a book by Moses (Deut. 31: 9, 24). The moral law is perpetual (Matt. 5: 17, 18; Luke 16: 17; Rom. 3: 31), being the only true indicator of sin (Rom. 7: 7; 1 John 3: 4), while typical ordinances contained in the civil, or ceremonial, law naturally came to an end when the Antitype came and fulfilled His earthly mission. See Eph. 2: 15; Col. 2: 13-17. This distinction is so plainly set forth in the Scriptures that only a desire to evade the force of obligation to the moral law of the Ten Commandments could possibly blind any student of the Word to the obvious point.