why do most Christians think just because the messiah died for us that we no longer have to obey Gods Law?

Question

God never said ok when the messiah comes you can stop obeying my laws

Answer 1

I agree with you. I am a christian and I think the doctrain of grace can go to far. Yes, we can't earn our way into heaven but he said be holy as I am holy. Of course he knows we can't be perfect like him but the commandment to love one another ("that all other commandments will be done if that if followed") is not obsolete. It IS a commandment.

Answer 2

The truth is, Christ taught us that the laws were being obeyed too strictly, and people were forgetting the Spirit of the law. The laws were given as guides for living. They were never meant to be used to persecute and opress people as many religions do even today. The Scribes, Pharisees, and Saducees condemned Jesus for not obeying the Sabbath. Jesus responded that it is allright to do good on the Sabbath. God never meant for the law to prevent us from doing good in any situation. God expects us to use a little common sense.

May God Bless Ya'

Cal-el & Swissy

Answer 3

As stated, your question indicates a faulty premise.

You have not laid adequate foudation for your assumption that "most Christians" think as you have described. Indeed, it could be argued that, by definition, all genuine Christians diligently strive to adhere to God's Law.

Through Christ, mercy is given procedural status under the Law. However, God is no fool, and the machinations of man cannot deceive the Almighty.

Ponder Hebrews 4:12-16.

I am a veteran. Among the freedoms for which I risked my life was the right of others to say and do things that I then believed were distasteful (for instance: burning the Flag).

Many people want to take away that right, because they have idolized that piece of cloth; they are unreasoning and unreasonable cowards having no appreciation whatsoever for freedom or the cost by which it was purchased.

Those cowards don't understand that freedom is not tantamount to chaos, or that liberty and order are not mutually exclusive terms; therefore, they selfishly and unreasonably seek to impose their opinions and beliefs through force of law on others.

Recognizing that this is not a perfect world, freedom and liberty challenge us each to think and act with compassion and civility towards others; fundamental to the exercise of freedom and liberty are laws defining and proscribing certain behaviors.

Consider "God's Law." What does that term mean? Does it consist only of "The Ten Commandments" or does it include the "Levitical Law" -- or is it actually neither of those?

Jesus answered this question in Matthew 7:1-12. Arguably, it is this short, humanistic answer that most effectively communicates God's intent.

Jesus again answered this question in Matthew 22:36-40 -- and lest one ask what does it mean to so love God, consider Romans 3:10-24.

Diligently ponder John 13:34,35 and John 14:15,20,21,23 -- and consider the context thereof.

Despite the introduction given in John 1:1-17, some yet argue that the Bible is the "Word of God" -- and their idolatry of the Bible is manifested through their religiosity.

In that way, it matters not whether the revelator is The Word of God (Jesus) or the "Divinely-inspired word of God" (the Bible): the true character of each person is revealed in how he or she regards the statutes, laws, ordinances and precepts set forth in Biblical text.

There are plenty of posers, who are not Christians, who usurp the faith and its icons for personal (typically social and/or pecuniary) and/or political gain -- and "churches" and other organizations supporting, promoting and advancing such evil.

Common sense preceded the Law, and *should* have been commonly used to respond to and interpret the Law -- but, as observation clearly reveals --

MOST PEOPLE (regardless of claimed faith or lack thereof) prefer to enslave themselves and others, to delude themselves by conflating freedom and slavery, and to appease what remains of their seared consciences with icons and lying language.

Thus, while there exists a social element to local society, society as a general concept is by nature an organizationally complex structure comprised of rigid castes effected by popular design.

Answer 4

There are over 400 laws in the Old Testatment. To keep all of them would be humanly impossible, which is just the point God was trying to make! We are not perfect, that's why Jesus came to fulfill the law, and become our sacrifice for sin. That's why there is no more sacrifice at the alter in Jerusalem.

Answer 5

I didn't know that most Christians thought that way. Of cousre we have to obey the 10 Commandments plus the Jesus' commandment (...love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you... Matt 5:44).
****************News Flash People********************************
We still have to follow THE LAW! Check these Bible verse:
Matthew 5:17, 18; 7:12; 23:23
lUKE 16:17
John 7:19, 49
Romans 2:18, 23

Answer 6

It is a new covenant, obey the teachings of Jesus not the old testament law. There are commandments or laws (if you will) in the New Testament. That is what we obey..
How do you know what most christians think???

Answer 7

Jesus Christ came into the world to fulfill the Law. He did not come to change it.

Definition of the word: fulfill or fulfil \fu(l)-fil also fe(l)-\ fulfilled fulfilling [ME fulfillen, fr. OE fullfyllan, fr. full + fyllan to fill] (bef. 12c)
verb transitive
1archaic : to make full : fill
2a : to put into effect : execute
b : to bring to an end
c : to measure up to : satisfy
3a : to convert into reality
b : to develop the full potentialities of syn see perform
fulfiller noun
fulfillment \-ment\ noun

When you say most Christians, I believe you are wrong. I'm a Christian and I don't believe that, nor do any one I know.

Answer 8

I didn't know true Christians thought that way. I don't think that way.

Answer 9

I don't know anyone who thinks that way