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Originally Posted by Amanah
What about Deut 5:15 which says that the Sabbath was instituted as a remembrance of being delivered from Egyptian bondage? doesn't that show that it was not observed prior to the exodus? |
Good point.
They had rest from Egyptian bondage. And this also relates to the new covenant's spiritual rest from sin.
It has been proposed here that morality is not known by man without God's word. What you mentioned reminded me of something when you noted it does not seem that the commandment was in existence before Moses.
I disagree that morality is not known without the written word about it, but it is known by God's word through a means aside from written word -- spoken Word! And God
created all by his word, and creation informs people of His moral truth.
But if the direct commandment and written word alone is the only way that man could know morality, and sabbath is supposed to be a moral law, the last thing we can assume is that man had received this commandment before it was written down in the record that we have without a written word to verify that anywhere. The argument, therefore, defeats itself in several levels. We cannot assume anything when it comes to the word of God.