Old testament law still in effect: Can you explain?

Question

In Exodus 35:2, god says: "For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death. "

Matthew 5:17-18 Jesus says "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."

In light of these two quotes, why don't you think people who work on the Sabbath should be killed? Why don't you think adulterers should be stoned, etc.

I would take "everything is accomplished" to mean the second coming, final judgement, etc. In that case you would still have to follow the law.

I don't intend to do any of it because I don't believe, but if you do then it seems to me that you have to still follow it, or you are in trouble. If it's impossible to follow, then that's just another bible contradiction to add to my collection.

Answer 1

I think that the piece missing from the puzzle is keyed upon this quote:
" until everything is accomplished. "

It has been accomplished. Jesus did that. He fulfilled the Law. He is the only one who has.

And yet by the standards of the Law, we all fall short, providing us a way to be shamed into the act of repentance. As Paul said:

Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.

And through repentance we may look to God, the sacrifice of Jesus's atonement, and claim the right to be citizens of a heavenly kingdom. Declared by God to be righteous through faith.

So we can, and I do, breathe a sigh of relief. Jesus provided the sacrifice for ALL my sins; past, present, and future.


EDIT: Okay. Well then that is the way you want to go? I mean, which temple will you sacrifice at? If you are under the Law, you must do all of it. Are you sure that you want to do that? If you put your faith in the rituals, by the historical account, you have failed already! That's a lot of weight. Perhaps you are a descendant of Levitical priests? Do you see how futile it would be to attempt to do the WHOLE Law? / :

Answer 2

Seventh-day Sabbath is still sacred. Jesus said in Mathew 24:20:
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day.
Also, Apostles did not changed it. Because holiness to Sabbath was attached at creation, before the sin entered the world.
But the law that commanded killing if you work on Sabbath is not anymore in force - because Jesus established a new order of composite society.
And if you can prove that Sunday is sacred by the Bible only, you will win 64.000 USD:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/02/prweb340390.htm

But you can not.

Answer 3

Paul said the Law was not understood from the beginning. It's not the parts that say don't steal and kill, that aren't in effect any more.
It's the part about spirit communication.
It was condemned for the fact it works. And spirits have better things to do than keep coming back to satisfy our doubts and fears.
Much less petty things like giving us the goods on our enemies, or "when will we get some money!"
Spirit Communication is for the bettering of our souls. And it's not Play! There are negative
beings out there can do us serious harm!

Answer 4

Because when Jesus died on the Cross, it ushered in an era of forgiveness through repentance, water baptism, sanctification, and being filled with the Holy Ghost. Jesus himself said that He didn't come to abolish the Law (OT Scripture), merely to amend it. The Books of Law are included in the Bible today to show that the Law must be fulfilled, but no longer have to be fulfilled by the same means. Law and Grace (Church era, NT Scripture) are meant to be a balance of law and a space of time in which God and man commune in an effort to have repentance. Just as Jesus said when the rulers brought a prostitute before Him saying OUR LAW (notice they didn't refer to Scripture) says that she should be stoned to death. What say ye? He replied, "Let him among you who is WITHOUT sin, cast the first stone." No one present could do so, for under GOD'S law they'd ALL be guilty of death for their individual sin. Christ's death made HIM be responsible for paying the penalty of sin for ALL mankind (refer to the Covenant made with Abram [Abraham] in the OT). If we're convicted in our hearts for the sins you mentioned in the OT, then we need space to repent and have leadership from our God-led ministry help us learn what to do to make things right.

Answer 5

the prophets in the Old Testament told of everything to happen--as in Christ's coming to Earth--which He did.

And it tells of His coming again, which I FIRMLY believe.

Answer 6

Yeah. Jesus didn't abolish the law.

Paul just said he did.

Answer 7

What ever happened to love thy neighbor as thyself? Jesus changed the laws.

Answer 8

The laws of old are called OLD for a reason.

Answer 9

i think of distinctive it has to do with the actual shown fact that we as Christians do no longer completely comprehend our own God besides so how on the earth will we clarify that to different persons? i for my area locate it comforting that he does not make experience with the aid of fact i does no longer choose for the ruler of the universe to be comprehensible to me. additionally, Christianity in the present day is very centred on the loving fringe of God considering the undeniable fact that's what our era needs to hearken to. A century in the past it replaced into all hearth and brimstone considering the undeniable fact that's what made experience to them then. i do no longer think of God has replaced, we've in simple terms desperate to concentration on diverse factors of him. We do an analogous issues to human beings in our lives over the years. Who hasn't enjoyed a chum sometime for his generosity and despised him the subsequent for being a back-stabber? 2 opposing factors to an analogous individual. yet, to formally supply up skirting the issue, i could guess that the cultural values on the time those issues replaced into written have been so diverse that regulations had to be put in place to help human beings proceed to exist. The rape verse you talked approximately ought to ought to do with that lady being socially outcast for the the remainder of her existence as a results of being raped, maximum in all possibility left to die. this isn't the case in the present day so we does no longer rigidity a woman's rapist to marry her. I guess in case you asked an authority they could logically clarify why countless the probably greater odd regulations are in place by employing supplying you with a concept of what existence replaced into like at that factor. in case you're extremely curious (and pass into it with a non-judgmental approach) you could properly be fortuitously bowled over by employing what you hit upon out.

Answer 10

I don't base my life on just one old book. They're quite outdated, even the "New" Testament.