And yet the Ten Commandments are much more than only a law for an ancient people; they are the summary of God’s moral law, which is binding on all people in all places at all times.3 The Ten Commandments articulate what God originally required of Adam and what Israel was called to embody: true righteousness and holiness before the LORD and (for Israel) in the midst of an ungodly world.4 The Ten Commandments were written by the finger of God on tablets of stone as an abiding testimony and record of the law of God.
