I know you said not to reply to your post but I'm going to and also request your continued participation in this discussion. We have discussed many things on this forum that are of little practical value. Our relationship to the Law of Moses, IMO, is decidedly not one of them. If it is God's will that we keep the Sabbath, then it is of great importance to know this.
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But wasn't the second commandment actually spoken by God to Moses and then through Moses to the people? Thus, believing Jesus to be God (The Word), in the SOM Jesus would be reiterating His own command! I know it is easy to forget, as we often do, that The Law was not of Moses but of God.Jesus is not on record as ever having said, "You shall not take the name of Lord your God vain." But Moses is. So do we get out of keeping this command since we, supposedly, only follow Jesus' Commands? I think not! Jesus accepted Moses' teaching on this matter, as all Christians do.
Your remarks about Jesus' comments on the second commandment provide a good illustration of an important point about the Law. Suppose you were born and raised in England. You learned at an early age that it was unlawful to commit murder. Then, as an adult, you immigrated to the United States, where, to no surprise, you found it also illegal to commit murder. Would you think you were still under the law of England? Of course not. In the same way, many things of the Law of Moses are the same under the Law of Christ, the New Covenant. And many were in effect long before Moses.
Jesus came and taught as no one had ever taught before. Just as in His illustration, the wineskin of the law was burst asunder, unsuited for His teaching.
I wish to get to the heart of the matter. The question, to my mind, is this: could a person having absolutely no instruction in the Law of Moses, but thoroughly instructed in the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles, live a life completely satisfying to God, within, of course, his ability according to the grace given to him to do so? I say emphatically yes. What say you, or any others who read this?
May God give us the truth in this matter.