The Faith of Abraham Pt 4

 Truthfully we need to comprehend more than we seek to. We get the basics and then say it's enough, no more is needed. We say we understand and we don't want to cloud that understanding with more details. We hide from the advancing truth, deeming it unneeded to our salvation, we have what we think we need. The truth is, God would not be seeking to give us more comprehension if we didn't need that understanding for His purposes. 

Today in the following study I learned something I want to expound on just a bit- 

The Ten Commandments, God's moral laws were in effect from the very beginning  of creation because they are the epitome of God's love. We sinned. Sin is a transgression of God's law. Adam and Eve could not have sinned had there been no law, no moral spiritual moral compass written on their very hearts. 

Too many people believe that the Ten Commandments given by God to Moses were the start of the law we could break and thereby sin. But we know sin happened in the Garden of Eden. We know that Satan sinned first, and for him to have sinned there had to have been a law even before human creation. The law of God is -as revealed already- written on the hearts right into the very living essence of every intelligent being created. Once sin began to pervade mankind's entire thought process, corrupting them entirely where they no longer recognize sin as the evil it is, God destroyed all of mankind except Noah and Noah's family. Making a promise to never destroy all of mankind again in that manner, God's reboot of humanity did not erase the evil, it couldn't because Satan wasn't destroyed in the flood, and mankind is so very weak separated from God. With the plan of salvation in place- the woman's seed destroying Satan- would have to occur to irradicate sin entirely and ultimately destroy all evil. 

The reality is the laws of God were and are spelled out in detail to mankind so they could have no excuse whatsoever to disobey them when they could no longer hear them from the heart. 

Christ died so we could have the laws written on our hearts revealed once more to us and sin would appear all the more sinful so we would seek to sin no more! 

The laws of God are love detailed and from everlasting to everlasting.

God help us know Him as He would have us know Him and allow His will to be done in our lives completely, all through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior- now and forever!!!!!!! Amen.

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'CHAPTER IV. STEPS OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM

Continued…

'Repent of sin, and be baptized for its remission. Sin lies back of baptism--back of repentance; and the law lies back of sin. To ignore the law is to have a baptism without any foundation--without any significance. Now if there is no distinction between laws in their nature, then it would be reasonable and proper to command thus: Honor thy father and thy mother, for the remission of sins; Thou shalt not steal, for the remission of sins; Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy, for the remission of sins. Why is it not as correct to read them thus, as it is to command to be baptized for the remission of sins? Clearly because those laws are of another nature; they are moral laws, and required because their transgression is sin. But baptism is not a moral duty, and may therefore be incorporated into a system of remission. If baptism was a primary obligation, it would be required on its own account, as are the ten commandments, and then it could not possibly have any place in the gospel plan. 

Ceremonial laws are made necessary by the action of man; moral law has its origin in the will of God, without any regard to human actions. Of this nature is every one of the ten commandments. And every precept was known before the days of Moses. When the Lord told Cain that sin lay at the door, it was evidence that he knew the law; and this law certainly included the sixth commandment, which Cain broke, for he was condemned as a murderer. That crime could not have been imputed to him if there had been no law on the subject. Gen. 4:7, 10-12; Rom.

5:13. 

Gen 4:7  If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. 

Gen 4:10  And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. 

Gen 4:11  And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; 

Gen 4:12  When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. 

Rom 5:13  (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

To be continued.