if so, how do you rationalize defying God's law?
2007-02-16 22:58:31 · 10 answers · asked by Brendan G 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because Jesus fulfilled the Old Covenant, we don't have to follow those laws.
Do you reject atheistic communism that killed 100 million people?
2007-02-16 23:02:23 · answer #1 · answered by The Notorious Doctor Zoom Zoom 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God's law is love thy neighbor and thou shalt not kill. Jesus said that the sabbath was made for man's benefit. If a person doesn't observe the sabbath let him be. THere is no law to kill a man for non observance of the sabbath. Maybe in the Old Testament? Christians are not bound by Old laws. Jesus teachings is superior.
2007-02-16 23:04:23 · answer #2 · answered by adonisMD 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ex 31:12 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Ex 31:13 “Say to the Israelites, ‘You must observe my Sabbaths. f This will be a sign g between me and you for the generations to come, h so you may know that I am the LORD, who makes you holy.
If would notes that he is giving this commandment to the Israelites.
2007-02-19 14:31:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Punishment is for a rustic to accomplish. Christianity isn't a rustic. Christianity is a faith. Israel become a rustic. Israel become no longer a democracy. It become a theocracy. The rules of God have been additionally rules of the state. So the state punished the lawbreakers. Christians are not to punish everybody for sinning. The church isn't a rustic. The state is to be a "terror" to evildoers, no longer Christians. Rom 13:a million enable each and every soul be subject unto the better powers. For there is not any potential yet of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. :2 Whosoever consequently resisteth the potential, resisteth the ordinance of God: and that they that stand up to shall receive to themselves damnation. 3 For rulers at the instant are not an apprehension to solid works, yet to the evil. Wilt thou then no longer be worried of the potential? try this that's solid, and thou shalt have compliment of the comparable: 4 For he's the minister of God to thee for solid. yet whilst thou try this that's evil, be afraid; for he beareth no longer the sword in ineffective: for he's the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. all the ethical rules like do no longer kill, do no longer scouse borrow, do no longer lie with a guy as with a woman, ect are nonetheless in result yet Christians at the instant are not approved to accomplish punishment. in easy terms the state has the "potential of the sword" to punish evildoers.
2016-09-29 05:42:27 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What part of "new covenant" do you not understand?
"Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." (Jeremiah 31:31-33)
"And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, 'This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.' And likewise the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.'" (Luke 22:19-20)
"In speaking of a new covenant he treats the first as obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away." (Hebrews 8:13)
2007-02-16 23:17:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
2007-02-16 23:15:10 · answer #6 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all could you site the passage where it says that? And second if its in there as I have read the entire Bible and can't recall seeing exactly that, its probably in Leviticus and therefore part of the old covenant and we are under the new covenant with Christ.
2007-02-16 23:03:22 · answer #7 · answered by Jayson Kane 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I really don't know what the people that interpreted that were smoking but I don't believe that we are supposed to kill each other, that is Gods judgment not man.
2007-02-16 23:09:22 · answer #8 · answered by one10soldier 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What was good for the Israelites, so be it. The New Testament supersedes Judaic law.
2007-02-16 23:05:35 · answer #9 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Let me answer your question with a question! Isn't there enough
killing in the world?
2007-02-16 23:08:59 · answer #10 · answered by jon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋