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Tom said:
Basically my question was: Were the 10 Commandments in existence before they were given at Sinai?
<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/yep.gif" alt="" /> The moral law of God as summarized in the 10 Commandments was engraved upon man's heart (conscience) beginning with the first couple. This can be seen in many ways, e.g., the two most easily seen are #1 and #2 when Cain offered vain/unacceptable worship and Cain's fear of being apprehended and killed (capital punishment) for murdering his brother. More so, Paul writes that the punishment for sin was exacted upon men even before the law came:

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Romans 5:12-14 (ASV) "Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:-- for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come."
In His grace,

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