Christians, could you please explain this to me. Which laws should be followed and which can be ignored?

Question

Which of these are more importanat?
Lev.15: 19-24
19 " 'When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.
20 " 'Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. 21 Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. 22 Whoever touches anything she sits on must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. 23 Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, he will be unclean till evening.
24 " 'If a man lies with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean.

Leviticus 18:22
'Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.

Leviticus 19:27
'Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard

Leviticus 19:19
'Keep my decrees.
" 'Do not mate different kinds of animals.
" 'Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed.
" 'Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.

Leviticus 11:6-8
The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you. 7 And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. 8 You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:10
But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales—whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water—you are to detest

Exodus 35:2
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.

***I'm asking Christians, because they always quote the Old Testement. If they only quoted Jesus like they should, I wouldn't have to point out their hypocrisy

***these are similar to laws traditional Muslims follow and many Christians call them nuts.

WAIT, once you start noticing there's crazy crap around the scriptures you often quote, it is suddenly the JEWISH law? There's a common term for this, CHERRY PICKING

Answer 1

Shouldn't you be asking the Jews not the Christians? The Old Testament laid down laws for the Jews. Christ gave us a new set of laws to follow as Christians.

Answer 2

As the Israelites were about to become a people with a homeland after escaping from Eygpt and enduring the wanderings in the Sinai desert they had to have a set of laws both spiritually and morally and Moses did just that, if you look at the majority of the do`s and dont`s here it is plain that the majority are morale laws that if obeyed would help keep the people together in solidarity, they really would not be for outsiders of the time nor would they have binding significance today in the post Christian era, however the two that would still be relevant are keeping the Sabbath day holy(Exodus 35:2) and that a man should not lie with another man(Leviticus) as these would still apply today for Christians.

Answer 3

My friend these laws were for the Jewish people not the Gentiles.You I presume are a Gentile.Besides the old law of Moses was cancelled out when Jesus was crucified on the cross.Jesus made a new covenant with us,upon being saved he places his laws in our hearts and in our minds.The old law of Moses never saved anyone,it just showed them their sins kind of like a mirrow shows you what you look like.Jesus new covenant saves us so we can go to Heaven.It's by mercy and Grace which we are saved,Mercy is something your given you don't deserve and Grace is unconditional love and total forgiveness.We ourselves cannot follow Gods laws because we are sinners.But Jesus is without sin and upon being saved our old selves die with him on the cross and our new selves are resurrected in the body of Christ.Therefore because we are in Jesus he lives by the law through us,we ourselves are unable to do it alone without him for we are sinners but he can do it in us because he is not.
The Jews had certain laws to abide by to be guided by God.But now we have the Holy Spirit to guide us which they didn't have that's why they needed prophets.So we don't need the old testament laws which didn't include us anyway because now we have the Holy Spirit to be our guide.
Besides why worry about all that anyway?
I think the commandment given by Jesus before he went back into the Father is the only we all should be focusing on the most."To Love One Another".

Answer 4

Lev 15 19-24
This means shes bleeding. they didnt have tampons then so she bleed everywhere. so yea...theyre gonna be unclean!

Lev 18 22
ew anyways! men shouldnt sleep together. my opinion!

Lev 19 27
Cut your hair how you want. thats for jews. jesus was jewish.
sounds like a rabbis hair cut.

the last one...i dont think you CAN mate different species...
the fields is because the crops eat all the nutrients out of the ground and having both would ruin the soil. hence why farmers dont grow corn two years in a row. and for teh clothing...i have no idea. whats it matter. cottons better anyway! lol

Answer 5

That is the old testiment....
The bible was ment as a guide, how to live your life, back in those days there was perfectly good reason to live by those rules. take into consideration this, now days we have science, I know churches are weird about that but think a min. we have microscopes and we can see that hot water an soap kills them, they dident even have hot running water, never mind tampons, our hygne and technology has changed, take it easy...its not so hard to be a christian, if only you believe Jesus died for your sins and you except him as your personal savior. your heart will tell you what is right an what is wrong an if you have a question about something, pray about it.

Answer 6

The ceremonial jewish law has been replaced by Jesus when He founded His Church.

The moral law remains the same and Jesus even heightened the demands of it "Who ever looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery in his heart."

Answer 7

well well, you are going to upset so many with that qiuestion THANK YOU!!!

I am not a religious person - i agree with your statement.

So many of the religious fanatics, zealots and bigots, who show their ignorance, intolerance, biased opinions and their racism on this site on a daily basis - seem to have forgotten what the true meaning of the religious texts and various religious books that they so often quote actually mean and what they truly represent - so according to their own behavior and actions and words, THEY are the one's that will face the wrath of God, the final days and go to HELL instead of those of us who are or try tobe more liberal, honest, open minded and fair.

Answer 8

Commencing the laws comes first, following them comes after, dear! THE ONE who gives the laws should be able to get them obeyed.

Answer 9

ALL the old laws, ordinances, and statutes passed away at the same moment Jesus did.

None of them have any bearing or authority on Christians today.

The only laws that apply to Christians today are those that were promulgated by the new covenant church that Jesus personally founded, authorized, empowered, and guaranteed.

Here's how it works, and why:

Pius XII: Mystici Corporis, 29: "And first of all, by the death of our Redeemer, the New Testament took the place of the Old Law which had been abolished; then the Law of Christ together with its mysteries, enactments, institutions, and sacred rites was ratified for the whole world in the blood of Jesus Christ...but on the Gibbet of His death Jesus made void the Law with its decrees fastened the handwriting of the Old Testament to the Cross, establishing the New Testament in His blood shed for the whole human race. "To such an extent, then," says St. Leo the Great, speaking of the Cross of our Lord, "was there effected a transfer from the Law to the Gospel, from the Synagogue to the Church, from the many sacrifices to one Victim, that, as Our Lord expired, that mystical veil which shut off the innermost part of the temple and its sacred secret was rent violently from top to bottom."
30: "On the Cross then the Old Law died, soon to be buried and to be a bearer of death, in order to give way to the New Testament of which Christ had chosen the Apostles as qualified ministers"
Council of Trent, ch 1, 793: "but not even the Jews by the very letter of the law of Moses were able to be liberated or to rise therefrom"
Council of Trent, Session 6, ch 2: "that He might both redeem the Jews, who were under the Law"
Council of Trent, Canon 1: "If anyone shall say that man can be justified before God by his own works which are done through his own natural powers, or through the teaching of the Law...let him be anathema."
Council of Florence, DS 695: "There are seven sacraments of the new Law: namely, baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, penance, extreme unction, orders, and matrimony, which differ a great deal from the sacraments of the Old Law. For those of the Old Law did not effect grace, but only pronounced that it should be given through the passion of Christ; these sacraments of ours contain grace, and confer it upon those who receive them worthily."
Council of Florence, DS 712: "It firmly believes, professes, and teaches that the matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, of the Mosiac law, which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments, because they were established to signify something in the future, although they were suited to the divine worship at that time, after our Lord's coming had been signified by them, ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began; and that whoever, even after the passion, placed hope in these matters of the law and submitted himself to them as necessary for salvation, as if faith in Christ could not save without them, sinned mortally."
"All, therefore, who after that time observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements of the law, it declares alien to the Christian faith and not in the least fit to participate in eternal salvation, unless someday they recover from these errors. Therefore, it commands all who glory in the name of Christian, at whatever time, before or after baptism' to cease entirely from circumcision, since, whether or not one places hope in it, it cannot be observed at all without the loss of eternal salvation."
Pope Benedict XIV, Ex Quo Primum, #59: "However they are not attempting to observe the precepts of the old Law, which as everyone knows have been revoked by the coming of Christ."
Pope Benedict XIV, Ex Quo Primum, #61: "The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and they can no longer be observed without sin after the promulgation of the Gospel."
Pius VI, DS 1519-1520 (condemned the following): "Likewise, the doctrine which adds that under the Law man 'became a prevaricator, since he was powerless to observe it, not indeed by the fault of the Law, which was most sacred, but by the guilt of man, who, under the Law, without grace, became more and more a prevaricator'; and it further adds, 'that the Law, if it did not heal the heart of man, brought it about that he would recognize his evil, and, being convinced of his weakness, would desire the grace of a mediator'; in this part it generally intimates that man became a prevaricator through the nonobservance of the Law which he was powerless to observe, as if 'He who is just could command something impossible, or He who is pious would be likely to condemn man for that which he could not avoid' (from St. Caesarius Serm. 73, in append., St. Augustine, Serm. 273, edit. Maurin; from St. August., De nat, et "rat., e. 43; De "rat. et lib. arb., e. 16, Enarr. in psalm. 56, n. I),-- false scandalous, impious, condemned in Baius (see n. 1504).
1520 20. "In that part in which it is to be understood that man, while under the Law and without grace, could conceive a desire for the grace of a Mediator related to the salvation promised through Christ, as if 'grace itself does not effect that He be invoked by us' (from Conc. Araus. II, can. 3 [v.n. 176]),-- the proposition as it stands, deceitful, suspect, favorable to the Semipelagian heresy.

Answer 10

it really is a funny book.