If Jesus obsoletes the Old Testament, shouldn't God have sent some new guy with some new commandments? Obviously all that business about not killing people, not lying and not coveting isn't working out.
2006-09-25 09:54:35 · 12 answers · asked by Nerdly Stud 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Curse those cotton polyester blends!! That must be a sin!! New guys are always inventing new rules and laws. I don't pay much attention to them.
2006-09-25 09:58:46 · answer #1 · answered by Angelina DeGrizz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Out of the thousands of different Christian sects, there must be some that think the eating restrictions are still in effect. I imagine that the cloth thing has just never come up. I wonder if God has let Jews off the hook about sacrificing animals. I know that the muslims still sacrifice to Allah(PBUH). If you don't know that God can smell all that yummy burning camel and goat then you are cruising for a very stony bruising. They should show the public lashings and hand choppings off and such on western T.V. so that we too can experience the joys of Islam.
2006-09-25 10:13:30 · answer #2 · answered by eantaelor 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We, the elders of the church of Seventh Day Opportunists, hold that the old dietary laws, especially those that prohibited shrimp and lobster, are part of the "Old Covenant" and no longer apply. However, wearing polyester-cotton combos continues to be an abomination unto the Lord, and sorely lacking in taste and style.
2006-09-25 10:01:40 · answer #3 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NONE: Jesus finished the Old Testament
He PREDICTED ITS END in Matthew 5:18
Mt 5:17 “Do not think I have come to get rid of what is written in the Law or in the Prophets. I have not come to do that. Instead, I have come to give full meaning to what is written. 18 What I’m about to tell you is true. Heaven and earth will disappear before the smallest letter disappears from the Law. Not even the smallest stroke of a pen will disappear from the Law until everything is completed.
IF IT WAS NOT TO BE DONE AWAY WITH, "until everything is completed" IS MEANINGLESS
2006-09-25 10:00:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If "mosaic regulation does not prepare to Christians", as Priscilla101 says, then why do fundies keep bringing up Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, and Genesis 19 (the Sodom & Gomorrah tale), every time the "sinfulness" of homosexuality comes up for communicate? the two ALL of Leviticus applies to Christians alongside with the passages against blended-fiber clothing, the eating of shellfish, the cutting of hair and beard, and so on -- or NONE of it does, alongside with 18:22 and 20:13. you could no longer have it the two approaches without being uncovered as finished hypocrites. So -- that's it?
2016-12-12 14:59:32 · answer #5 · answered by donenfeld 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For Christians, Jesus fulfilled the Law of Moses.
Christians are not held to the ceremonial parts of the Mosaic Law concerning of dietary purity and temple worship.
Christians are held to the moral law of God, some of which is expressed in the Ten Commandments.
However Jesus took the Ten Commandments to the next step summarizing them into the two Great Commandments:
+ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
+ You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
And teaching things like
+ Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
+ Everyone is our neighbor including our enemies.
Therefore we have to go much farther than the original recipients of the Ten Commandments ever dreamed.
With love in Christ.
2006-09-29 19:16:02 · answer #6 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The alternative answer is the whole thing was a bunch of horse $h!t and all you have to rely upon are your own ethics.
I never heard the shrimp (sea cockroaches) thing before. I don't eat them because their primary food near shore nowadays is human sewage rather than krill.
Pork chops are good food though. That and dry ribs. Yum!!
2006-09-25 09:59:52 · answer #7 · answered by SpankyTClown 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matthew 5:17-18---Think not that I am come to destroy the law,or the prophets:I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass,one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, til all be fulfilled.
2006-09-25 10:18:38 · answer #8 · answered by DJ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many Muslims and Jews have strict food regulations, whereas some are more relaxed in their attitudes. As to clothing, I am not familiar with any modern-day restriction.
2006-09-25 09:59:12 · answer #9 · answered by Yngona D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I get people telling me all the time that the OT is "old news" and that it's invalid.
Then......
WHY IS IT STILL PART OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE???
Cheese and rice.
2006-09-25 09:57:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋