A Mere 30-Point Historical and Scriptural Disputation on the Real Law of Moses in the Infallible Scriptures

 Dr. MA Petillo

The law of God is good and wise
And sets his will before our eyes,
Shows us the way of righteousness,
And dooms to death when we transgress.
Its light of holiness imparts
The knowledge of our sinful hearts
That we may see our lost estate
And seek deliv'rance ere too late.
To those who help in Christ have found
And would in works of love abound
It shows what deeds are his delight
And should be done as good and right.
When men the offered help disdain
And wilfully in sin remain,
Its terror in their ear resounds
And keeps their wickedness in bounds.
The law is good; but since the fall
Its holiness condemns us all;
It dooms us for our sin to die
And has no pow'r to justify.
To Jesus we for refuge flee,
Who from the curse has set us free,
And humbly worship at his throne,
Saved by his grace through faith alone.  (TH, 449).

1.  The moral law of God in the Ten Commandments points us to our Redeemer and Creator Jesus Christ.

2.  No one is spiritually saved by obedience to the Ten Commandments but the obedience of faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ our Savior and Friend.

3.  The Ten Commandments are essential for practical obedience, but not essential in spiritual salvation (i.e., how someone is right with a holy God).

4.  It is better to trust in the sinless merit of Jesus Christ alone in how He earned spiritual salvation for His people alone than to trust ourselves in earning spiritual salvation through the moral law.

5.  The law of Moses was given at the real historical site of Mt Sinai by God's design to teach people about their radical corruption and their desperate need for Jesus Christ.

6.  The law of Moses was written with the fingerprints of God Himself, because it was revealed divine revelation of a holy God.

7.  Disobedience to the moral law of God involved divine consequences by a holy God, but obedience to the moral law involved God's cosmic test of loyalty.

8.  The Ten Commandments is a knowledge of cosmic sin.

9.  The moral law of God manifest God's practical righteousness.

10.  Fallen man is unable to keep the moral law of God.

11.  Repentance should be used to see where men have fallen in light of the Ten Commandments.

12.  The Ten Commandments if understood by God's Spirit will led someone to Jesus Christ in His all-exclusive Cross.

13.  Fallen man is conceived and born under the law of Moses.

14.  The only Person who obeyed the moral law of God is Jesus Christ.  That is, He earned spiritual salvation for God's people.

15.  The Ten Commandments are written on the heart for God's people alone in Christ alone.

16.  No one is justified by the Ten Commandments before God, because the inspired Word teaches justification by faith alone through Christ alone.

17.  The only true Lawgiver is the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

18.  The moral law is there to teach us about lawlessness.

19.  The Ten Commandments teach us about our iniquity.

20.  The law of Moses teaches us about unrighteousness, but also our desperate need for the unified divine imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ alone in how someone is right with a superlatively holy God.

21.  Violations of the moral law are understood as cosmic sin.

22.  The Ten Commandments is "civil obedience."  That is, it cannot save someone except Christ alone.  The moral law cannot save, but it does not mean we ought to disregard it.  Christians ought to never disregard the law of Moses.  It will always direct us toward Jesus Christ as our only true Savior and Lawgiver.

23.  Disobedience to the moral law by cosmic reprobates, will cause the righteous to be in torment like righteous Lot in the historical city of Sodom.

24.  Lawlessness is a way of the Roman Emperor Nero.

25.  Lawlessness is descriptive of many antichrists.

26.  In a positional sense before a holy God, Christians are right with a holy God through the person and work of Christ alone.  That is, it means no one can be more right with God then through the person and work of Christ alone.  In a experiential sense, we grow in our practical obedience in reflecting what is legally true about us: namely, that we are redeeming the time and not giving place to sin.

27.   The law of Moses ought to teach us that we sorely need forgiveness, but it does not come through obedience to the law.  Rather forgiveness comes through Jesus Christ and His Cross.

28.  For argument sake, let's suppose that the ancient law of Moses is not the first manifestation of law in ancient history.  Does the fact that something else may be "more ancient" tell us it is "more true" like the divine revelation of the Old and New Testaments?  That is, is the mere fact that something is "older" make it necessarily better?  The acid test of orthodoxy is not age, because fallen Lucifer committed cosmic idolatry.  Would you say because cosmic idolatry is ancient it is something you should practice?  God forbid!  Again: does this mean that we should embrace his fall in our practical experience just because it is extremely ancient?  By no means!  The reason why the world government should display the moral law of God in public is because it is the plain testimony of matchless and incomparable divine revelation revealed in the infallible Scriptures.

29.  The Ten Commandments do not support a lifestyle of homosexual marriage or homosexual church government.

30.  The Ten Commandments are simple rules of obedience that are meant for Christian living in the holy presence of a holy God.

Most perfect is the law of God,
Restoring those that stray;
His testimony is most sure,
Proclaiming wisdom's way.
O how love I thy law! O how love I thy law!
It is my meditation all the day.
O how love I thy law! O how love I thy law!
It is my meditation all the day.
The precepts of the Lord are right;
With joy they fill the heart;
The Lord's commandments all are pure,
And clearest light impart.
The fear of God is undefiled
And ever shall endure;
The statutes of the Lord are truth
And righteousness most pure.
They warn from ways of wickedness
Displeasing to the Lord,
And in the keeping of his Word
There is a great reward.  (TH, 450).