Tradition Comparator
Can the commandments given at Sinai be changed or annulled?
Each row is one tradition: its answer in its own categories, the reading principles its lens removes, and which of the case’s positions still stand when the record is read through that lens.
Not every row answers the same question. Each row applies one tradition’s lens — removing the reading principles it rejects or sets aside — and shows which positions are still supported under that lens. A lens records explicit rejections only; principles a tradition does not address are left in place. Where a tradition asks a different question, the row says so.
| Tradition | Answer | Lens removes | The commandments are permanent | Fulfilled in Christ | A law for each community | Fulfilled, by Restoration scripture |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rabbinic Judaism | Addresses the question The commandments stand forever. A prophet may suspend one for the need of the hour but cannot abrogate it; interpretation and protective legislation belong to the sages. mitzvot · horāʾat shāʿāh · Torah she-beʿal peh · takkanot and gezerot Position: AM-CLAIM-000219 | AM-AX-001, AM-AX-008, AM-AX-009, AM-AX-011 | Supported under selected assumptions | Not established under selected assumptions | Not established under selected assumptions | Not established under selected assumptions |
| Catholic | Asks a different question Asks how the Old Law relates to the New: its moral precepts endure, its ceremonial and judicial precepts are fulfilled in Christ. The question is about covenant fulfilment, not about whether a prophet may legislate within Israel. moral, ceremonial and judicial precepts · fulfilment · new covenant Position: AM-CLAIM-000221 | AM-AX-005, AM-AX-007, AM-AX-008, AM-AX-009, AM-AX-011, AM-AX-013 | Support weakened | Supported under selected assumptions | Not established under selected assumptions | Not established under selected assumptions |
| Reformed | Asks a different question Divides the law into moral, ceremonial and judicial: the ceremonial is abrogated, the judicial expired, the moral binding — all within one covenant of grace. threefold division of the law · covenant of grace Position: AM-CLAIM-000221 | AM-AX-005, AM-AX-007, AM-AX-008, AM-AX-009, AM-AX-011, AM-AX-012 | Support weakened | Supported under selected assumptions | Not established under selected assumptions | Not established under selected assumptions |
| Sunni Islam | Asks a different question Asks how successive revelations relate: each community is given a law and a way, and later revelation may lift earlier precepts. The Sinai law is honoured as revealed for its community, not binding on Muslims. sharīʿa · naskh · shirʿa wa-minhāj Position: AM-CLAIM-000225 | AM-AX-001, AM-AX-005, AM-AX-007, AM-AX-010, AM-AX-011 | Support weakened | Not established under selected assumptions | Supported under selected assumptions | Not established under selected assumptions |
| Shiʿi Islam | Asks a different question As for Sunni Islam; Shiʿi jurisprudence develops the same principle through its own legal tradition. sharīʿa · naskh Position: AM-CLAIM-000225 | AM-AX-001, AM-AX-005, AM-AX-007, AM-AX-010, AM-AX-011 | Support weakened | Not established under selected assumptions | Supported under selected assumptions | Not established under selected assumptions |
| Latter-day Saint | Asks a different question The law of Moses was fulfilled in Christ, on the authority of the Book of Mormon, while the covenant with Israel continues through the restored gospel. law of Moses · covenant Israel · Restoration Position: AM-CLAIM-000227 | AM-AX-005, AM-AX-007, AM-AX-008, AM-AX-012, AM-AX-013 | Support weakened | Supported under selected assumptions | Not established under selected assumptions | Supported under selected assumptions |
| Historical-critical scholarship | Not comparable Describes how the Deuteronomic and Priestly formulas function in their settings and how each tradition received them; it does not answer whether the commandments can be changed. Deuteronomic and Priestly sources · reception history | AM-AX-001, AM-AX-002, AM-AX-003, AM-AX-004, AM-AX-005, AM-AX-007, AM-AX-008, AM-AX-009, AM-AX-010, AM-AX-011, AM-AX-012, AM-AX-013 | Support weakened | Not established under selected assumptions | Not established under selected assumptions | Not established under selected assumptions |
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