the 10 commandments and the old covenant?

Question

Alot of people believe that the ten commandments were part of the old covenant fulfilled (taken away) BUT.
Maybe what the real meaning is that, the actual covenant was taken away, The written covenant between God and His people.
Maybe the object of the 10 commandments (tablets of stone)were never taken way.
I.e. If I sold me car to you i would write a contract. The car of course is the tablets of stone and the contract is the covenant. It could be said that the sale never goes through so the contract is destroyed. The car still remains.
So maybe infact the 10 commandments are still around today??

Answer 1

If you look at the Ten Commandments you will see they have two parts.The first four deal with our relationship with God and the last six deal with our relationship with others. Jesus repeated these in the N.T. "Love your God with all your heart and your neighbors as yourself".

Answer 2

The 10 Commandments were never taken away. In fact, you will find several NT commands to "keep the Commandments of God".
Also, the word "fulfilled" doesn't mean "taken away"; it means "to make true". Jesus said, "I have come not to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it" (make it true). Jesus' two great commandments are actually a summary of the 10 Commandments: "Love God with all your heart, soul and strength" sum up the first 4 commandments, and "Love your neighbor as yourself" sum up the last 6.
People who claim that the 10 Commandments are done away with are really arguing the validity of the 4th Commandment, to keep the (seventh day) Sabbath holy. Please tell me where in the Bible it says to worship on Sunday? It doesn't, anywhere. Yet repeatedly we find that everyone in the Bible from Adam to John the Revelator, including Christ Himself, worshipped on the seventh-day Sabbath. So did all the NT disciples and the gentiles. This is why I chose to be a Seventh-Day Adventist. I believe, if you're going to be a Christian, you are expected to keep ALL 10 Commandments, not just 9. Would those Christians who argue against the 4th Commandment also argue that the 6th Commandment, "Thou shalt not kill", has been "done away with"? Or would they say that the 7th Commandment, "Thou shalt not commit adultery", was nailed to the cross? I don't think so.

Answer 3

There are actually 613 commandments in the agreement between the jewish god and his people.
Those who are orthodox jews attempt to adhere as much as possible to that contract today.
They will tell you that there is no contract between their god and christians. If you read the bible carefully, it actually describes two very different gods, and the one in the hebrew bible said very clearly that he is god, he does not change.
So, yep the contract is still in place.