Is there anything that specifically says the 10 Commandments are durable after the death of Jesus, but not the shellfish prohibition?
2007-11-21 08:04:14 · 17 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Cherry pickers.
2007-11-21 08:08:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Eph 2:20 The Church is built upon the foundation of the Apostles. They discern the Holy Spirit to guide the Christian community.
Acts 15:28, Jn 16:13, Mt 28:18-20, Lk 10:16.
Mal 2:7 The Apostles that Jesus selected will lead the community in Truth and Wisdom.
2007-11-21 08:19:58 · answer #2 · answered by Lives7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dietary Laws of the Old Testament were in place to keep the Israelites healthy. "Unclean" animals were ceremonially unclean most often because of what they ate. Shellfish are scavangers, eating the garbage of the world and the sea.
There is nothing in the Ten Commandments regarding diet.
Christ's death on the cross did away with the 613 ordinances of the Levitical Law, but not the Ten Commandments.
2007-11-21 08:14:26 · answer #3 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Prime example of someone cherry picking from the bible.
Jesus never said that people should not follow the Judaic laws governing food. He was a practising Jew and he died a practising Jew when the Romans crucified him. In other words folks, yep, Jesus kept kosher!
(those of you about to give me a thumbs down, if you do that's proof that you can't cope with the truth about Christianity)
If you really want to follow Jesus, then you too should keep kosher. Or even better, stick to the same religion that he did: Judaism.
But of course many Christians want to claim that they must keep the ten commandments while ignoring the more inconvenient things that Jesus believed in, such as not eating shellfish.
Jesus did not fulfill Judaic law for a simple reason: Judaic law needs no additions nor 'completions' - it is a complete system within itself.
2007-11-21 08:16:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would Jesus abolish the food laws that His Father Yahweh wrote for Moses to learn and teach his people for all generations yet to come. These food laws, which shellfish was part of, were part of Yahweh's disease prevention plan in the laws of Moses to help keep the human body healthy and disease free. It makes absolutely no sense that knowing this Jesus would eliminate these laws to do more harm to the human body. Also as time goes by modern science will force mankind to once again follow God's diet.
2007-11-21 08:20:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, one only needs to look at it logically. Since Christ was crucified, has it suddenly become OK to kill people? To commit fornication? To dis your parents? To swear? To lie? To steal?
Obviously, the 10 Commandments are still binding. God's Law stands forever.
About the "unclean foods", I don't believe that those were "nailed to the cross", because of the fact that it is a very good scientifically accurate food-eating guide. It tells us what kinds of food are safe to eat, which has universal application. Obviously some kinds of animals are scavengers and carnivores, and would not be fit for human consumption. This includes shellfish and pigs. The mammals that ARE safe to eat all have cloven hooves and chew the cud; they also have multiple stomachs, which is probably some kind of purifying system for what they eat before it goes into their meat.
This is why I eat kosher, even though I am an evangelical Christian.
2007-11-21 08:13:00 · answer #6 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As you can see from the answers, there is sectarian division concerning this.
The 10 Commandments (the Decalogue) is held in higher esteem than the remainder of "the Law" (Torah, the 1st 5 books of the bible) by some sects because these were written by the hand of God himself, without the use of an inspired human. Thus, even though the New Testament is plain that only 4 points of the Law must be followed by Gentiles, many add the Decalogue because of its perceived special status.
In other words, they make an exception for the 10 Commandments (by requiring them).
Jim, http://www.jimpettis. com/wheel/
2007-11-21 08:22:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Paul and the writings found in Acts make it truly easy that the gentile converts to Christianity were no longer required to come back below the former covenant as a thanks to change right into a Christian. You mean that God's human beings could be protecting the former covenant. something incorrect with the hot covenant? you don't like the better covenant with better provides? you want the not so good because the further suitable? as far as who has the authority, God, who expresses His authority contained in the writings of those who were inspired by Him to position in writing the N.T. Scriptures. for this reason, who's ignoring this authority that makes it sparkling to anybody who reads issues in context that Christians weren't in any respect a celebration to that previous covenant, and the former covenant ended? .
2016-10-24 21:13:19 · answer #8 · answered by carmack 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Studying scripture would answer these questions for you. Every one of the 10 commandments was specifically reinstated in the NT with the exception of the sabbath. Thus we are still under most of them. Much of the law was removed however some was reinstated under the new covenant.
2007-11-21 08:15:20 · answer #9 · answered by Bible warrior 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have to distinguish the kinds of Laws in the Old Testament. There are:
Ceremonial Laws
Food Laws
Moral Laws (include 10 Commandments)
Jesus abrogated the first two but retained and enforced the last.
2007-11-21 08:10:18 · answer #10 · answered by Averell A 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The 10 Commandments are included in the about 613 laws that are called The Law and were abolished by Jesus' ransom sacrifice.
2007-11-21 08:12:38 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋