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The Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai
The Nature and Function of Law
Scriptures to research: Exodus 29:9-20:26; 2 Corinthians 3:7-18; Galations
3:1-29; Deuteronomy 5:1-33; 6:1-25; Luke 15:18, 21; James 2:8-12; 4:10-12;
Leviticus 11:1-47.
- Name the 10 commandments.
Classify them under three categories:
1)Responsibility to God
2)Responsibility to man
3)Responsibility to self
- Why did God choose these
commandments? Was it just an arbitrary choice?
- Research "Hammurabbi's
Code" (Babylonian origin about 2,000 B.C.) because there is some
similarity between his code and the ten commandments and relate what
you find.
- Did Moses copy of Hammurabbi's
Code which laws were suitable to the needs of the society of Isreal?
Explain your answer.
- According to Luke 15:18,
21, when man sins, against what does he sin?
- Is is only through law that God gives purpose and direction to man's
way of living. Study Exodus 3:1-13. What is the authority behind the
law?
- Since all men have sinned and voilated law (Romans 1:18- 3:23), is
it the function of the law to justify?
- Particularly, the law of Moses had a function as it related to the
nation of Isreal. What was that purpose? (Galations 3:19).
- The detailed and tedious laws in Exodus and Leviticus not only relate
to moral and religious legislation but also to ___________ laws because
Isreal was not only a religion but also a nation.
- Which law did God give through Moses which the children of Israel
were not responsible to keep? (study James 2:8-12; 4:10-12)
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Why would God say "Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's
milk"? (Exodus 23:19; 34;26)
- Why did God make a distinction between unclean animals clean animals?
Summarize the differences between the clean and unclean animals. (Leviticus
11:1-47)
- What were the people to do if a dead mouse fell into an earthen water
vessel? Why?
- Why would God command that the fire on the altar be kept burning all
the time and that only this fire and that only this fire could be used
in sacrificing? What difference does it make about the source of fire?
Doesn't it seem to be too stringent a law?
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