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Moses, Gustave Doré.1
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Roy Moore's affinity for the Ten Commandments is to be commended. However, his Bible begin and ended with Exodus Chapter 20. Yet, that was quite sufficient for most of his judicial decisions, but not the rest!
The Scriptures contain far more, some that would have been very advantageous to the judge, had he taken the time — matters pertaining to "thoughts and intents of the heart.""
"Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. (Matthew 5:27-28).
Or:
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?" (Job 31:1-2).Back to Moore who demanded that we as a society hear the trumpet of Sinai from which hailed the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, Moore never realized to whom the twentieth chapter was written "I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage" (Exodus 20:2). Hopefully, that will give a clue.
Moore, was marooned on an island in the Dispensation of the Law of Moses, void of the Spirit, where God's will was written on "tables of stone" rather than in the present Dispensation of Grace where it is written by "the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart" (cf. 2 Corinthians 3:2-8).
Likewise, many churches today, failing to "rightly divide the word of truth" (cf. 2 Ti 2:15), have been marooned on islands in the Dispensation of the Law of Moses while wearing life jackets of Grace. Hard to swim when shackled to "tables of stone"!
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