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Originally Posted by Esaias
What is meant by "the foundation"?
Either way, the two greatest commandments are the broadest, so that all other commandments are encompassed by them ("upon these two hang all the law" and the commandments are "comprehended" in those two, as Paul put it). Thus the various commands, statutes, judgments etc are but the Divinely appointed mechanisms by which we love God and our neighbour.
Some folks though think if they love God and their neighbour they are thereby not required to do any of the specific acts of love given as the various commandments. Kind of like people who claim they believe in Jesus or love Jesus but refuse to believe and obey His teachings.
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Yup. My point was about the flaws in the argument that the 10 commandments are what carried over to the new and nothing more nothing less because they are some sort of core or foundation of the moral law.
I was just demonstrating the flaw of the argument in many fronts: the whole idea of “moral” and such classification; the whole idea of the “core”ness of the 10 commandments and their reason to be the core commandments for the New Testament, etc…
My point is the entire law is moral, and everything is binding as the starting point because the entire law determines what it is sin. The question is not what is core and what it is not to identify what is binding in the new, but rather what is discontinued and what is not after the new covenant.
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