B. Answer the following questions.
1. Where did Moses receive the Ten Commandments from God?
2. Why did God give the Ten Commandments?
3. Why did Moses throw the tablet stones inscribed with the Commandments?
4. Do you consider Ten Commandments as a moral law? Explain your answer.
5. How does correct use of freedom lead man to goodness?
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Answer:
1. Mount Sinai
2. God declared that the Israelites were his own people and that they must listen to God and obey His laws.
3. According to the foregoing, Moses wished to punish the Israelites severely, when he beheld that they were unworthy of the precious gift he carried. By their rash deed they had broken the covenant between them and their Father in heaven. He therefore broke them at the foot of the mount in front of them.
4. Yes it is a moral law. 1. The law of Ten Commandments is the unchanging, eternal, and moral law of God. 2. God's law is eternal in its nature. His Commands. 10 Commandments is a general law, a universal law.
5. God gave us a freedom to choose between good and evil. God gave us a knowledge, so we might know the difference of good doing from bad and evil doings. "If we will use our freedom righteously, God will bless us abundantly."