Creed Of Principle Extraction

1. The Mosaic Law – The Mosaic Law contains Precepts, Statutes, and Laws (Nem.9:14).

• (Moral) Precepts - Precepts encompass the division of the Mosaic Law relating to the personal moral character of man and his responsibility to others (Ten Commandments, responsibility to others, conduct related to others).

• (Regulatory) Statutes - The practices of the Judges and Priests of the nation of Israel that extends its binding force to all the Israelites. These statutes concern the process of adjudication and it the judicationary processes. These statutes regulate the conduct of the judges and the case laws regarding the violation of moral obligations. These statutes do encompass Judicial Practices, Levitical Practices, etc...

• (Obligational) Laws – The common law or the division that addresses national, tribunal and personal obligations regarding Sacrifices, Feasts, National Assemblies, Jubilees concerning the realm of non-moral personal responsibility.

2. Principles - All Moral Precepts (Commands and Mandates) of the Holy Scripture are the contextualization of principles.

3. Principle(s) Of Causation - The Principle(s) Of Causation are one or more principles that have been contextualized of which the precepts origin is attributed to.

4. Deductive Extraction – The Extracted Principle(s) of Causation (which are deduced from a precept) must be sufficient in themselves to reconstruct the precept in full form.

   The precept must be deducible from the principles extracted from its precept in order to be defined as the "Principles Of Causation" (Ps.119:104,128; Rom.13:9)

5. Immutability - God is immutable and neither do His sentiments change. The sentiments of God are expressed through His moral precepts. Hence, all divine moral principles are immutable. If God's sentiments expressed through His Moral Law change, then God would not be therefore immutable and hence imperfect. If the morality of God changes they are therefore fallible principles governing morality. (Num.23:19; Jms.1:17)

6. Non-Obsolescent - These moral principles are applicable to all cultures, in all eras, and are non-situational. Hence, They are applicable to 21st Century B.C. and 21st Century A.D. Hence, are not displaced by any dispensation because they are immutable.

7. Abominations - All practices described as being abominations are moral issues, which practices of such are perpetually condemnable irrespective of dispensation, because they violate eternal immutable principles.

8. Divine Sentiments - Divine principles are the divine sentiments of God Almighty. The sentiments do not change over time as God does not (Num.23:19; Heb.13:8). God is personable and the principles underlying His precepts are the revelation of the heart.

9. Necessity - It is necessary to pursue the extraction of principle for the purpose of understanding the sentiments of God. Hence for the true worshiper, loving God is the pursuit of His sentiments, being His sentiments are the expression of His heart (Ps.25:4). Knowing and loving God is equated with knowing His sentiments (principles, precepts, commands). Hence, partiality in this pursuit is an indicator of the absence of a passion to know and love his Creator. (Ex.33:13; Ps.25:4; Jn.14:15,21; Jn.15:10; 1Jn.5:2,3).

10. Accountability - We are morally obligated to the adherence of the moral principles of God and must maintain a clear conscience in their observation or we are committing deliberate sin against our conscience, our families, communities and our God. Faith must be exercised in all areas of moral consciousness or it is sin (Obligation/Accountability: Jms.4:17; Rom. 4:12; Mt.7:21; Lk.12:47,48; Lk.20:35; Lk.21:36; 1Pt.4:5; Rev.20:12,13; Mt.12:36,50; Lk.16:2 )(Conscience: 1Tim.1:5,19; 1Tim.3:9; Act.24:16; Rom.2:15; 1Cor.8:12; Heb.13:18; 1Pet.2:19;1Pet.3:21) (Sin: Dan.9:5; Hos.4:6; Rom.14:23; 1Co.15:34 ).

11. Obedience Of Faith - We are not justified by the works of the law (Rom.3:28), we establish the morality of the law (Rom.3:31) by its moral principles (Rom.3:20), and by application of it's moral principles denounce antinomianism (Rom.6:1,2; 1Jn.3:9; 1Jn.5:18; Hb.10:26). The principles of scripture are for the purpose of knowledge of sin (Rom.3:20) so that we may come to the obedience of the faith (Rom.16:26; Col.1:9). Recognizing obedience cannot be exercised without knowledge of His principles and that intentional ignorance is not excusable for lack of moral fortitude (Lev.5:17; Hos.4:6;1Co.15:34). Abraham was justified by faith but his faith was only demonstrated by his observance to the principles of God (Gen.26:5; Jms.2:20-23).

12. Fulfillment Of The Mosaic Law – Christ is the fulfillment of the Mosaic Law and the prophets (Mt.5:17). His fulfillment of the Law did not abolish our accountability to the Moral Law but if we teach them and do them we are considered great in His kingdom (Mt.5:19). Christ's reference to teaching and doing the commandments was referring to the Mosaic Law. In addition the moral obligation of the law is referred to and upheld in the lists of exclusions which were extracted from the precepts of the Mosaic Law concerning those who would not obtain salvation (1Co.6:9; Gal.5:21). We are instructed to abstain from association with any person who considered himself a “believer” yet lived contrary to the moral precepts taken from the Mosaic Law (1Cor.5:9,10). The moral obligation of the Law to provide for widows is affirmed in the new covenant practice (Dt.10:18;Act.6:1;1Ti.5:16; Jms.1:27). Hence, all undergirding principles of moral precepts from the Law stand as our tutor to righteousness.

    There is no longer any obligation to keep the following divisions of the Law: Dietary (Mk.7:19), National Obligations (i.e.Ex.23:17), Sacrificial (Heb.7:27,28), Health Obligations (i.e.Deut.24:8), Festivals (Col.2:16).

    If we as individuals are sanctioned with the task to apply moral law to a nation, we would then be obligated to adhere to the division of Judicial Obligations of the Law in exercising justice and adjudication. Such synchronization of Judicial Obligations of the Law and the principles of Christian ethics is the foundation of the Judeo-Christian ethic. Again, Christ did not come to abolish the Law (Mt.5:17) many of the principles of His teaching were from the law and the prophets (i.e. Lev.19:18,34 vs. Mt.19:19; Dt.6:5 vs. Lk.10:27; Dt.7:9 vs. Jn.14:15,21; Isa.61:2 vs. Mt.5:4).