Christians keep talking about how the law cannot be kept. What is so hard about these?

Question

1. Not to deny God.

2. Not to blaspheme God.

3. Not to murder.

4. Not to engage in incestuous, adulterous, bestial or homosexual relationships.

5. Not to steal.

6. Not to eat a limb torn from a living animal.

7. To set up courts to ensure obedience to the other six laws.


This is all a Gentile need do; the other laws are for Jews. Which of the above cannot be done?

These are the Noahide laws. The laws in Torah for non-Jews. This is all non-Jews need follow.

Who mentioned the 10 commandments?

These are the Noahide laws. The only laws in Torah (The Christian OT) that a non-Jew is required to keep.

Answer 1

Wow, where did you come up with those?

Answer 2

What you have there is the 10 commandments (sorta)
The LAW you will find through out
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy

Leviticus 19
5 And when ye offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Jehovah, ye shall offer it that ye may be accepted.
6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if aught remain until the third day, it shall be burnt with fire.
7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination; it shall not be accepted:

This is a LAW
one of many

Answer 3

Agreed to all except your #4 including homosexuality which is not specifically forbidden in any text of the bible. LOVE is the overridiing principle upon which Jesus preached yet it's not okay for like gendered individuals to have loving relationships. Many see this for what it is a contradiction and are taking up the cause for gay rights. At least gay unions (most gays will concede that the word marriage which connotes sanction by God (if there is one) may/might not be acceptable ever to the religious community...but a SECULAR UNION should be). I am not gay, but have several freinds who are and the intolerance/lack of understanding they endure on a daily basis is unfathomable. PEACE!

Answer 4

Do you really know "The Law"? Do you really know what is meant by the 10 Commandments?

#1 Have no other Gods..... what about idolatry? Our love of pursuing money, sex, etc... do you think about those more than God...probably.....Guilty

#2 Do not take the Lord's name in vain.... ever used God or Jesus in cursing someone....Guilty

#3 Keep the Sabbath....when did you last go to church? Guilty

#4 Honor Mother and Father....I bet Guilty

#5 Do not Kill..... even when you feel anger and hatred toward someone you are guilty of this one. I bet you didn't know that one

#6 Do not commit Adultery.... Jesus told us even if you look upon a woman with lust in your heart you have commited adultery with her... kind of like the do not kill thing.. Guilty

#7 Do not steal.... you're going to tell me you've never taken anything? Never?! Guilty

#8 Do not lie.... Guilty

#9 Do not covet your neighbors goods..... you have never been jealous of someones goods or success? You liar....Guity

#10 Do Not covet your neighbors wife....GUILTY

We CANNOT keep the law, we are weak and faulty humans subject to our fallen nature....we need a Savior. We need Jesus Christ because we can't save ourselves.

Answer 5

God doesn't exist. Gay people have a right to marry and live openly. A court set up to enforce religious beliefs go against the United States Constitution.

I don't know what blaspheming God would be since God is an imaginary being like the Easter Bunny.

Christians are free to do what they want as long as they don't bother the rest of us.

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Answer 6

Are you referring to the Ten Commandments? If you are, you got 5 of them correct. #6 and 7... where did you get that at? Plus, you're missing the other five.

Yes, Christians are commanded to obey the Law (10 commandments). Jesus did not get rid of the Law, He upheld it and gave us a deeper understanding of the Law.

We are to be obedient to it at all times; this is our command from
God.

God bless.

Answer 7

There is nothing wrong with keeping these commandments.... It is simply mans inability to to have a made up mind and a sold out spirit to accomplish and maintain them.... while remembering we are prone to fall and that is why the father desire for us to repent when we fall... by the way you may want to review law and commandments.... and the history behind some of the laws and the commandments in it's entirety

Answer 8

I think the point can be made if we just look at your number 1. We deny God every time we do not put him first in our lives. Can you truly say that you have never acted in a selfish manner in thought word or deed? Every time that selfishness shows itself, you have put yourself before God. Another common one is the love of money. We are sinful human beings who easily put many things before God.

We need a Savior because we cannot keep the Laws perfectly.

Answer 9

As a christian we never say that we live by the ten commandments and yes we can keep the laws. Who said we didn't.

Answer 10

It's not that the law cannot be kept. The issue here is whether the law can attain salvation for us. The answer is that it cannot.

Only Jesus and the Blood that He shed on the Cross can do that.

Answer 11

From a God's eye perspective as the prophet Isaiah said "all your works of righteousness are as filthy rags before Me"

Jesus summed up the law saying you shall love the Lord with ALL your heart and with ALL your soul and with ALL you might and wth ALL you strength and also... to Love you neighbor as yourself... and no one does this if we are honest

You left off do not put any other God before me
and do not covet and the porblem is people are virtual idol factories turing God into Santa or their Grandfather in the sky
People make idols and don't even realize it.

People are designed to return glory to God, respecting God, respecting Parents and respecting others. But we do not do this in a pure way and are tainted by sin in our best efforts falling short of God's glory. People go through the motions of worship, but are they always thankful

People do not act purely for the glory of God, usually for selfish pursuit People give to feel good or look good not necessarily for God;s glory

A man might send his parents a fathers day or mothers day card, but is he as considerate about honoring them allways other ways

A man might be faithful in his marriage, but do they fanticy about things sexually sometimes

People might not murder, but do the commit character assacination disrespecting the image of God in that person who was made inthe mimage of God

...and the 10 commendments ends with not coveting, going back to the first putting no God before you. Do you trust God to supply... really? or not really? if you covet and are ungrateful... the answer is not really and you broke em all

those are god's rules... and the kicker.... you are bound ot whatever rules you make as well... if you judge others, you are making rules for yourself... and can be held to those

no one of us can keep these laws, Adam fell in the garden and man now has a tainted will. We have free will, but our free will is tainted and limited by a nature more currupt in the last slice than we are willing to admit Man freely chooses but it is freely according to a sinful fallen nature

only one was born with an unfallen sinful nature as a result of the virgin birth and that was Jesus Christ, existing eternally divine and taking upon himself an additional human nature to attone for sin.