THESIS 29: THE NEED FOR A PEDAGOGICAL LEGAL STRUCTURE

The generation that came out of Egypt was unable to apply the Law of God to every area of their lives, being dominated by the slave mentality inculcated by Egypt.[93] Therefore God raised up Moses as a social-legal mediator between God and the people.[94] Although God's Law was given to the Patriarchs,[95] it was necessary for Moses to re-issue it and institutionalize it for the immature and slave-like Israelites coming out of bondage.[96] This temporary regression was thus necessary at the time, and God was rightly praised for it.[97]

Exposition

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

93. Exodus 14:11-12; 16:3; 17:3; Numbers 9:16-17; 11:4-7; 13:31 - 14:4,7-10; 21:5-6 + Exodus 7:11-12; 1 Samuel 15:22; Psalm 78; 106:7; Ezekiel 20:8; Hosea 6:4-7; Acts 7:39.

94. Exodus 18:19-20; John 1:17; Hebrews 3:1-6

95. Genesis 18:19; 26:5

96. Deuteronomy 4:14; John 7:19,22

97. cf. 1 Kings 8:5; 2 Chronicles 2:12; Galatians 3:9.

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