Remarkable, seems that even after Christ, His commandments are to be placed subordinate to the 10 commandments, even though scripture is clear that His teachings and death altered our relationship with them - as well as their structure. Seems the Law of Moses is very flexable - stop sacrifices, yet when it comes to Jesus being our sabbath rest, we are told He isn’t.
Exactly. It all boils down to whether the will of God revealed through his Son in the New Testament is higher authority than the Old Testament, or not. Are the commandments of the New Testament to be interpreted and administered as of the New Covenant or as of the Old Covenant? The idea of of interpreting commandments in light of the Covenant under which they are given seems to baffle them. They are like an applicant who goes into Probate Court expecting the Court to administer an Estate under an old will that has been revoked and superseded by a new will that has already been admitted, and they can't even understand why the framework they want to impose on the administration of the Estate is an absurdity. It doesn't matter how many of the provisions of the new will are similar to the provisions of the old, or different from it, the estate is still going to be administered under the new will, not the old. Their unwillingness to accept the obvious would at least account for what frequently appears as reckless indifference to hermeneutic consistency.
Cordially,