The Negotiable Laws of the Covenant

The Bible gives clear evidence that the commandments are endlessly negotiable, he says. If they were flatly, singularly non-negotiable, you would need to take a case, and maybe it's a kind of a safe case,. But Moses said, or God said, whoever said, what he's written, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Amos understands that the Sabbath is really a guard for weak people against strong abusive people. And then when you read on the third Isaiah and Isaiah 56, they have a discussion about whether to let eunuchs and foreigners into church. It's because they had to find some way through all the business of the non-neg