distinction between god’s 10 commandments (Moral law) and Law of moses (ceremonial law).

     Sabbatarians insist on a sharp distinction between moral or ethical law and ceremonial law. They contend that the 10 commandments are therefore bound today because of their moral fabric. To distinguish the Ten Commandments as moral and the Law of Moses as ceremonial becomes a slippery step with all kinds of mental gymnastics that must be hurdled. Inspiration speaks of “moral” and the so-called “ceremonial” laws together, in the very same breath. They are intermingled and fused together to be “the law” (see Lev. 19:1-30).

     Neither do the 10 commandments speak inclusively of all moral law.  While it condemns adultery, it is silent about homosexuality and bestiality (see Lev. 18:22, 23). Certainly these are “moral” laws, yet they are not in the10 commandments. The 10 commandments do speak against bearing false witness “against” your neighbor, but what about bearing false witness “for” your neighbor? The question that begs the issue is what is the moral essence of keeping the Sabbath day holy? Sabbath keeping should fall under the “ceremonial” law in view of the fact that it had sacrifices associated with it.  "And on the Sabbath day two lambs in their first year, without blemish, and two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, with its drink offering—this is the burnt offering for every Sabbath" (Num. 28:9, 10). 

     Please consider that this distinction of laws creates two laws and is foreign to Biblical writers.  “Law” is always in the singular and generally refers to the whole Mosaic law.  Paul spoke of only “one” law that came forth from Mount Sinai, “And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later [after Abraham v. 16, sjw], cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect” (Gal. 3:17). The law that came 430 years later was the 10 Commandment Covenant, the Law of Moses.  He later speaks of the covenant that came from Mount Sinai as one that gives birth to bondage (Gal. 4:24).

     Dear reader, honestly consider the following which conclusively shows the superficial distinction between the Law of God (10 Commandments) and the Law of Moses (Ceremonial Law).

• God gave the “Law of Moses” (Ezra 7:6).
• Moses gave God’s law (Neh. 10:29).
• New moons, Sabbath offerings and set feasts are written in the “Law of the Lord” (2 Chron. 31:3). Sabbatarians want it to say, “Law of Moses.”
• 10 Commandments are called the Law of Moses (Mk. 7:9, 10; Jn. 7:19; Heb. 10:28; cf. Deut. 17:2-6).
• Law of Moses is called Law of the Lord (Lk. 2:22-24).