another question for christians?

Question

FEW MINUTES AGO I HAVE ASKED CHRISTIANS ABOUT OLD TESTAMENT....http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkWjlpAH4Nj23JeSmNnsKE3zy6IX?qid=20061210194231AA5fZsR
AS I READ THE ANSWERS I ALSO GET TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME CHANGINGS IN RULES ............WHO CHANGED THESE RULES.....WHO CHANGED OLD LAWS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT....IF U SAY A PREIST OR IF U WROTE A PERSON NAME THEN.....HOW CAN U SAY IT IS A BOOK OF GOD????PLZ I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND....

Answer 1

the rules are the same, some just do not understand them.

Answer 2

Every book ever written was written or "penned" by a human being. The books in the bible however, are inspired and authored by God. That is where the term "God breathed" comes from. The Old Testament was a forshadowing of what was to come, Christ. If I had written a prophetic book that said, "Right now we use an eraser and once a week we must write something and then erase it in honor of the One who will come and erase all the wrongs." It would be like a law that fortold of a coming change. Then lets say, bare with me, that a person came who brought great change and eventually all the bad in the world would be erased. That person would say, "Now you no longer need erasers because I have erased all the bad. Please now just make pencils with NO erasers on them in honor of what I have done"...Then there would be a program change because that prophecy had been fulfilled. I hope this analogy helps you understand why christians believe as they do.

Answer 3

The rules were not changed. The 10 Commandments are still valid today, but again, they are not the way to heaven, but rather point out how imperfect we are.

The jewish customary laws given in Deuteronomy and Leviticus have not been changed, but in most cases are no longer needed. Many of these laws were given by God to help protect His people.

Any changes to the laws were made directly by God. For example, in Acts 10-11 God gives Peter a vision teaching that the previously "unclean" animals were now to be considered "clean" and able to be eaten. Jesus also fulfilled the sacrificial requirements rendering them unneeded.

In summary, only God has made any "Changes" to the Old Testament laws.

Answer 4

The High Priest after the lineage of Melchizedek is Jesus. Hebrews 5:6 and Hebrews 5:11 He did not change any of the rules and added only one commandment; "to love one another." He was not in favor of the 600 new laws the Pharisees and Sadducees added to God's original 10 commandments, Neither the ten Commandments or the added new one is negotiable. John 13:32-35

Answer 5

The plan of salvation is like a big, long, complex operation. In any operation there are phases. Let's say we're building a car at a local GM plant. The car has been assembled, and now it's ready to be painted. You say, "Wait! What about all the assembly rules?" but the boss says, "No, we're in the paint phase now." Not a perfect illustration, I must admit.
It was God who "changed the rules." He didn't obliterate the Old Testament, but now it's not so much a rule of life as it is a book of illustrations and stories that help us understand.
We are in a new phase now, a phase of following the Spirit and living by faith. All else will fail us when it comes to sanctification (becoming holy, becoming better people, becoming what God intends us to be, fulfilling our potential as children of God).
Do we fulfill the law? Yes, but by following the Spirit (Romans 8:4). Children need a list of dos and don'ts. That's legalism, Pharisee-ism. God has invited us to live in a more mature manner.
Again, the people of Israel worshiped in Jerusalem, that is a specific place they had to go to to fulfill their worship duties. But Jesus told the woman of Samaria, "Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father....But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers Shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers." (John 4: 21-23)

I agree with the one who advised you to read Galatians and Hebrews, particularly Galatians. (And most the other answers you've received--several of them excellent!)

The ceremonial law of the old testament is out--otherwise, we should all be at a Jewish temple, a conservative one, going through all their rituals with them. What's still is in effect is the moral law.

Answer 6

You have to understand that the OT was all a foreshadowing of the coming of Christ. All the sacrifice, as in Leviticus were symbolizing the sacrifice Christ would eventually make.There are no changes God remains the same, but instead of sacrificing animals every time you sin, Christ came and died as the perfect sacrifice once and for all. If you want a good understanding of the old testament go to www.ttb.org and listen to J. Vernon McGee. He is doing a study in the book of Leviticus right now.

Answer 7

If any laws were changed, they could be found in the end of that same book, The Holy Bible. When Jesus came, in the New Testament of the Holy Bible, some of the old laws of the Old Testament we abolished because He died on the Cross. MayGod Bless

Answer 8

King Constantine changed much of the Bible. He took out everything to do with Vegetarianism and Reincarnation. He put the doctrines of Paul in the bible. Paul was not a real christian. He never even met Christ. He was a killer of Christians and most of his teachings go against Christs. Read The Gospel of The Nazirenes Edited and restored with historical documentation By Alan Wauters and Rick Van Wyhe. go to Thegospelofthenazirenes. for full details. There is so much fundamentalists Christians don't know what they did to the Bible.For real seekers of the Truth

Answer 9

When Jesus came ,and he was proclaimed in the old testament to come to be our Savior,When he came he changed some of the beliefs that they had ,they made Christianity too hard and put added on things that were un-important.Such as wearing wool with cotton etc... things that were childish, yet there were so many rules that it was hard to live by them.They had nothing to do with salvation that man as usual put his two sense in and these rules grew.Jesus made it simple .He said believe in me and thou shalt be saved and thy house.He also said when we were children we thought as a child but now we are grown we are to put way childish things.Its like building an idol with your own hands then worshiping it.We are smarter ,educated and wiser today Back then they were,in old testment ,theywere ignorant.They didn`t have a Bible they had prophits that told them about God that traveled from one place to another.Look at todays churches,they have the same Bible yet the preachers teach a different meaning to a lot of the same passages that are the word of God.

Answer 10

well, most Christians you encounter aren't really Christians ... they're Palmists. they follow Paul.

early Christianity was a small Hebrew sect and one had to be a Jew to be a Christian. that meant you followed Hebrew dietary and cleansing laws. Few Gentiles would convert to Judaism, go through the painful circumcision ritual and follow complex and restrictive dietary laws so Paul went about undermining Hebrew law to make it easier to convert Gentiles to Christianity. (Peter, the rock upon which Jesus' church was suppose to be built protested Paul's changes.) now Christians claim that Jesus created a "new covenant" so they don't have to follow the same laws that their savior followed despite the fact that the Bible says Jesus said

Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Christian make excuses because it's far easier to claim exemption from their god's rules then to follow them. they couldn't have it easier. someone else pays for their sins, they get a free pass into heaven no matter what heinous sins they commit and they need make no effort to follow the ways of their lord. they get to eat their cake and keep it too and their "got it made in the shade" spirituality has made them (as a group) spoiled, arrogant and aggressively demanding.

Answer 11

People like us that have read the bible and don't believe everything we have read, because the bible has been written a long time ago and it is out dated in my opinion. Like I told you in my last answer, I believe and follow some of the bible, but I mostly believe people should just be good people and help out each other and respect each other and give to one another, I think that is more important to me than anything else and some other people might believe as I do. Also, I don't really know if you would get the kind of answers you are seeking or if people really know the right answer to help you, you might have to read the bible yourself and come up with a conclusion. Good Luck!