Who decides what still applies today from the Bible?

Question

Why is it that everyone says everything from the Bible (NT) will apply forever no matter what changes in our society and cultures, but on the other hand some things from there are not practiced anymore, even in the church. Such as woman staying silent during church, woman not teaching in a church and that if we didn't cover our heads at church we would be shaved bald. These things are from the NEW testement, not the old. I thought EVERYTHING was supposed to be followed forever.Then I don't think the living with each other before marriage should apply either anymore because it's old fashioned and I don't think it's really necessary anymore...
Why do some things apply and some don't?

Answer 1

The churches decide. Since people are fallible this means that your interpretation of what to keep or discard is as valid as anybody else's.

Answer 2

What ever religious authority you adhere to. If you are catholic, it would be the pope, if not your priest or maybe even you. The earliest people to do this were the members of the council of Nicea who created the Nicean Creed that is said in the Catholic church each week. Some things are said to apply while otheres are not because Jesus disagreed with parts of LEvitic law and we have to ask "What else did he disagree with?" Such as kosher eating and ritual purification etc.

Answer 3

It all depends on what the Christians want to pick and choose.
Sacirficing your first born? Back then, Yeah. Today, dosent apply. Multiple wives, back then, OK. Today, Not a chance.
Incest, back then, OH YEAH. Today. Illegal and immoral.
But the Bible is truth. How is it that some of it can be thrown out and not used. If it was the truth back then, why would it not be the truth today?

Answer 4

There's a small man in the far corner of a bar in Preoria who decides these sorts of things between pickled eggs and reruns of "This Old House" on the television.

He's a bit cranky, so don't bother him. God forbid he decides that the book of Revelations applies to modern day life, causing the world to explode.

Answer 5

Malachi 3:6 shows that when the Israelites were changing laws etc to suit them, God said He hadn't changed. So, we don't get to decide which bits of the Bible does or does not apply, God's standards do not change. How can one of God's creations tell Him that they think that his standards are outdated so they think they should change them because it now suits them to do so? Considering its our eternal future which is at stake here, isn't it in our interest to do things how God wants and not how we as imperfect humans feel like doing them?

Answer 6

Spiritual laws ALWAYS apply.

Cultural laws are guidelines to govern behavior.

When it comes to the Bible, you are not forced to obey it, but when you violate spiritual law, the "Ripple Affect" that you will reap is inevitable.

So if you want to be obedient to the Word of God, ask God to guide you and change your heart to live in harmony with His principles, so that you won't ignorantly violate His laws and suffer because of it.

Answer 7

All things applies in principle...

We are no longer under law but we are to live by principle. If you understand the context, if you understand what God was in God's heart and you really seek what He desires not what would make your life better then you would be doing everything God meant for you to obey.

"If you truly love me, then you will obey me"

Answer 8

God is the same yesterday, today and forever, His WORD never changes. Humans change the WORD to fit their agendas

Answer 9

It seems apparent that each person decides for them self. No other explanation is reasonable.

Answer 10

--THE HOLY SPIRIT, as God's active force was used to Inspire the Bible's secretaries and thus it is the enlightenment of this "dynamic energy"--that indeed helps us to understand its application at any time.--

(2 Peter 1:20-21) “20 For YOU know this first, that no prophecy of Scripture springs from any private interpretation. 21 For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit.”

--AS FAR as getting clear pictures easily, there are several things that we have to come to a realization:

--FOR INSTANCE --prophecies about Christ in the Hebr. Scriptures (ot) number close to 400! Some of them are easy to understand and some take research!

--1. The 10s of thousands of animals that were sacrificed to God and that pictured Christ ultimate sacrifice of the only lasting worth were pictured as representations or as this text states:

(Hebrews 10:1-2) “10 For since the Law has a shadow of the good things to come, but not the very substance of the things, [men] can never with the same sacrifices from year to year which they offer continually make those who approach perfect. 2 Otherwise, would the [sacrifices] not have stopped being offered, because those rendering sacred service who had been cleansed once for all time would have no consciousness of sins anymore?”....24 For Christ entered, not into a holy place made with hands, which is a copy of the reality, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the person of God for us.

--IF YOU noted the word "shadow" was use, thus the reality fell on the Christ!

--ON A LESSER nature why were the Israelites not to eat pork? ONE MAJOR reason was that of the danger of the pork disease of strickenosis along with diseases of shell foods(NO REFRIGERATION back there)

--As for the women not speaking and the headdress there is nothing in christian law that makes that a moral delimma!

--Pauls expressions at .1 Cor. 14...dealt with issues of either people trying to take over authority by arguing, politicking and other dangerous influences---NOT ONLY by women but, mostly of men. ---They were violating this important matter:

(1 Corinthians 14:36-40)
33 For God is [a God], not of disorder, but of peace."
“36 What? Was it from YOU that the word of God came forth, or was it only as far as YOU that it reached? 37 If ANYONE(my caps) thinks he is a prophet or gifted with the spirit, let him acknowledge the things I am writing to YOU, because they are the Lord’s commandment. 38 But if anyone is ignorant, he continues ignorant. 39 Consequently, my brothers, keep zealously seeking the prophesying, and yet do not forbid the speaking in tongues. 40 But let all things take place DECENTLY and by arrangement.”

--PLEASE NOTE some of the dissension;

(1 Corinthians 1:10-11) “10 Now I exhort YOU, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that YOU should all speak in agreement, and that there should not be divisions among YOU, but that YOU may be fitly united in the same mind and in the same line of thought. 11 For the disclosure was made to me about YOU, my brothers, by those of [the house of] Chlo´e, that dissensions exist among YOU. . .” NOT MINOR MATTERS!

--THERE ARE indeed many good examples that women in both the Hebr. & Grk. Scriptures --showed faith that men should have shown, Just in the NT--

--Mary, the earthly mother of Christ was outspoken and had tremendous faith--And indeed in proper Christianity is honored as a faithful human, just as much as Abraham, Moses etc.
--Mary Magdalene in her faith, put to shame one of the apostles of Christ, Thomas--who actual had to touch Christs wounds before he believed he had been resurrected back to earth.(John 20:1-18 & 26-29)
--Phillips daugthers were zealous teachers & were greatly commended

--Men who have thought they they have greater importance than women in any part of the Bible were fooling themselves in their self-importance! ITS interesting that only the men who were apostates in NT are named --MIGHT THAT mean that few women showed that ugly trait?--Could very well be!

--AS TO THE BIBLES morality, THAT has never changed & never will!

--For people who want to ignore warnings -- the Israelites in the wilderness stand as a poor example not to follow as the warnings are incubent on Christians:

(1 Corinthians 10:6-11) “6 Now these things became our examples, for us not to be persons desiring injurious things, even as they desired them. 7 Neither become idolaters, as some of them did; just as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they got up to have a good time.” 8 Neither let us practice fornication, as some of them committed fornication, only to fall, twenty-three thousand [of them] in one day. 9 Neither let us put Jehovah to the test, as some of them put [him] to the test, only to perish by the serpents. 10 Neither be murmurers, just as some of them murmured, only to perish by the destroyer. 11 Now these things went on befalling them as examples, and they were written for a warning to us upon whom the ends of the systems of things have arrived.”

--WE ARE indeed in the time of the end of a corrupt world, and those who practice God's morality will indeed survive as the faithful Israelites in the wilderness survived.