The holy spirit character named Sarayu had asked Mackenzie why he thought they created the 10 Commandments...
"I suppose, at least I have been taught, that it's a set of rules that you expected humans to obey in order to live righteously in your good graces."
"If that were true, which is it not," Sarayu countered, "then how many do you think lived righteously enough to enter our good graces?"
"Not very many, if people are like me," Mack observed.
"Actually, only one succeeded-Jesus. He not only obeyed the letter of the law but fulfilled the spirit of it completely. But understand this, Mackenzie-to do that he had to rest fully and dependently upon me."
"Then why did you give us those commandments?" asked Mack.
"Actually, we wanted you to give up trying to be righteous on your own. It was a mirror to reveal just how filthy your face gets when you live independently."
"But as I'm sure you know there are many," responded Mack, "who think they are made righteous by following the rules."
"But can you clean your face with the same mirror that shows you how dirty you are? There is not mercy or grace in rules, not even for one mistake. That's why Jesus fulfilled all of it for you-so that it no longer has jurisdiction over you. And the Law that once contained impossible demands-Thou Shall Not...-actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you."
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