conformity to its spirit and requirements.”19 All of this yes-and-no attitude toward the law can be avoided by a simple distinction between the eternal moral law of God and the Mosaic law. The first is as immutable as the character of God but the second was temporary and has been abolished. Even Robert McQuilkin, who first gives the careful distinction between the moral law and the Mosaic law, seems to forget that distinction later when he writes: “All of the references in the New Testament, direct