If not, why not? How do you know what rules from the OT are to be followed still, and which are not?
2007-11-11 08:44:46 · 14 answers · asked by chem sickle 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Christians feel free to eat shellfish and wear mixed fibers also... but still cite the commandments...why?
2007-11-11 08:47:00 · update #1
when you get an answer to that, ask about how one "fulfills" a law -- I usually obey them. Can one fulfill a speed limit? Would that mean I can drive real fast? Linguistic balderdash.
2007-11-11 08:48:45 · answer #1 · answered by rosends 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In and of themselves, yes. The Old Covenant was fulfilled in Christ. However, the Ten Commandments express the edicts of the natural law very well, and so the Church took them up and enforced them under her own jurisdiction. As the body of Christ, she has this authority, and she would have the authority to replace them with another summary of the Law of Christ if a better one were to be discovered. Since the Ten Commandments come from the mouth of God, however, I find this unlikely.
So are the Ten Commandments obsolete? No, but the jurisdiction for their enforcement is no longer the Levitical Priesthood or even the Torah; the jurisdiction is the Church's.
2007-11-11 11:29:07 · answer #2 · answered by delsydebothom 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's funny 6 or so years ago I asked myself the same question. I quit eating pork and all the other stuff listed there. I tried to follow all the OT rules to a T not just the top Ten there. I failed miserably. I realized how pathetic I was. I'm one of the ones that are lucky (understatement) that Christ died for my sins. Because there would be no way for me to be saved. Heck I folded after the first Thanksgiving with the ham. Yes I failed miserably, It's only going to be through Christ I'm saved. I won't get into all the other failures but this was one that brings back memories.
2007-11-11 09:10:08 · answer #3 · answered by knotaknight b 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Remember that the Law of Moses applied only to the Israelites who made an agreement, covenant, with God. These laws don't apply to you. The rules that still apply from Moses are the ones that applied before Moses. So moving your neighbour's boundary fence, as happened to me a while back, is as wrong now as it was 10 000 years ago when agriculture began. But sacrificing bulls was never natural law, guided by the conscience, so that is no longer a law for the Jews, along with kosher. Theft, murder, violence, perjury, adultery, sodomy, incest and bestiality are still wrong, for everyone, and so are even anger, hatred, unkindness, jealousy, lust and greed; anything that is harmful to self or others, and can give a bad conscience.
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2007-11-11 09:06:13 · answer #4 · answered by miller 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus did no longer ignore the ten commandments.. yet He ignored some regulations of Moses.. Moses wrote some regulations as a results of fact the early Jews have been obdurate. Jesus ignored the regulation in stoning a woman who's caught committing adultery. Jesus ignored revenge. He presented forgiveness. furnish the different cheek.. undergo in recommendations. no longer all OT regulations are to be accompanied till immediately... God needs love. no longer all christians do no longer devour beef.. i think of they are baptist christians that don't devour beef.. i don't be responsive to why they do no longer devour beef. perhaps as a results of fact is a tapeworm service.
2016-10-16 04:00:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would you Really Want to live in the World WITH OUT the Ten Commandments, or 7 of them?
2007-11-11 08:49:10 · answer #6 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The old covenant is obsolete and gone. ( II Cor. 3)
Christians were never a party to that covenant. None of the "rules" of the old covenant apply to Christians. Any Christians who deem otherwise are just ignorant of the facts.
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2007-11-11 09:57:27 · answer #7 · answered by Hogie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ENTIRE LAW was set aside. NONE of it is in effect any longer. It is improper exegesis to say one part still applies and another does not.
Lots of people miss that Jesus himself predicted the END of the law. In Matthew 5:18 we find that not a stroke of a pen will disappear from the law "UNTIL EVERYTHING IS COMPLETED."
2007-11-11 09:07:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Matthew chapter 5 repeats and even makes some of the old commandments more strict.
2007-11-11 08:51:38 · answer #9 · answered by moonman 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Read "The Mythmaker, Paul and the Invention of Christianity" by Hyam Maccoby
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2007-11-11 09:17:27 · answer #10 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋