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ARE THEY STILL BINDING?

How many commandments are
contained in the Ten
Commandments? Does that sound
like a foolish question? Then

consider the fact that thousands of
religious people would give an
answer like “94” or “110.” You see,

there is a strange belief on the part
of many that the great God-written
law of the Ten Commandments was

actually a part of the ceremonial law
of Moses which contained scores of
specific regulations. They do not see

the decalogue as being distinct and
totally unique because of its divine
authorship. Neither do they see the
clear limitation which the Bible sets for this moral code by calling it the TEN

Commandments.

It seems quite obvious that one would effectively do away with the “Ten

Commandments” by mingling them with ninety or a hundred others and calling
them “ordinances” instead of commandments. Such a radical effort has been
made to dilute the force of the only words of the Bible which God wrote with

His own hand. Furthermore, the claim has been advanced that since the Ten
Commandments were a part of the mosaic law of ordinances which ended at
the cross, we are no more obligated to obey the decalogue than we are to

offer lambs in sacrifice.

Is there proof positive in the Scriptures that there was no such blending of the
ceremonial and moral law into one? Can it be shown that the Ten

Commandments were of a permanent, perpetual nature while the ceremonial
law of statutes and ordinances came to an end when Jesus died? Indeed there