Featured What is the Law for Us

Is it ...?

* the ten commandments
* the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament)
* the 1,621 or so commands found in the Old Testament
* the entire Old Testament
* love the Lord your God with everything you've got and love your neighbor as yourself as Jesus said in
Matthew 22:37-39

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What Does the Bible Say About the Old Testament Law?

The teachings of Jesus, the Council of Jerusalem, and other New Testament teachings (John 1:16-17, Acts 13:39, Romans 2:25-29, 8:1-4, 1 Corinthians 9:19-21, Galatians 2:15-16, Ephesians 2:15) make it clear that Christians are not required to follow the Old Testament rules about crimes and punishments, warfare, slavery, diet, circumcision, animal sacrifices, feast days, Sabbath observance, ritual cleanness, etc.

Christians still look to the Old Testament scripture for moral and spiritual guidance (2 Timothy 3:16-17). But when there seems to be a conflict between Old Testament laws and New Testament principles, we must follow the New Testament because it represents the most recent and most perfect revelation from God (Hebrews 8:13, 2 Corinthians 3:1-18, Galatians 2:15-20).

However, freedom from the Old Testament Law is not a license for Christians to relax their moral standards. The moral and ethical teachings of Jesus and His apostles call for even greater self-discipline than those of the Old Testament (Matthew 5:21-22, 27-28, 31-32, 33-34, 38-42, 43-48, 7:1-5, 15:18-19, 25:37-40, Mark 7:21-23, 12:28-31, Luke 12:15, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, Galatians 5:19-21, James 1:27, 2:15-16, 1 John 3:17-19).

Christian Practice
Here are a few examples of Old Testament laws that Christians generally do not observe:

• Prohibited foods
  • Pork (Leviticus 11:7)
  • Certain other animals (Leviticus 11:4-6)
  • Shellfish (Leviticus 11:10)
  • Certain birds (Leviticus 11:13-19)
  • Certain insects (Leviticus 11:20-23)
  • Meat still containing blood (Leviticus 17:12)
• Circumcision required for males on eighth day (Leviticus 12:1-3)
• The death penalty for:
  • Attacking or cursing a parent (Exodus 21:15,17)
  • Disobedience to parents (Deuteronomy 21:18-21)
  • Failure to confine a dangerous animal, resulting in death (Exodus 21:28-29)
  • Witchcraft and sorcery (Exodus 22:18, Leviticus 20:27, Deuteronomy 13:5, 1 Samuel 28:9)
  • Sex with an animal (Exodus 22:19, Leviticus 20:16)
  • Doing work on the Sabbath (Exodus 31:14, 35:2, Numbers 15:32-36)
  • Incest (Leviticus 18:6-18, 20:11-12,14,17,19-21)
  • Adultery (Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22)
  • Homosexual acts (Leviticus 20:13)
  • Blasphemy (Leviticus 24:14,16, 23)
  • False prophecy (Deuteronomy 18:20)
  • False claim of a woman's virginity at time of marriage (Deuteronomy 22:13-21)
  • Sex between a woman pledged to be married and a man other than her betrothed (Deuteronomy 22:23-24)
• Feast day observances required:
  • Feast of Lots (Purim) (Esther 9:28)
  • Passover (Pesach) (Deuteronomy 16:1-8)
  • Feast of Weeks or Pentecost (Shavuot) (Leviticus 23:15-21)
  • Feast of Trumpets or New Year Festival (Rosh Hashanah) (Leviticus 23:23-25)
  • Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) (Leviticus 16:29-32)
  • Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) (Leviticus 23:39-43)
• Saturday (seventh day) Sabbath observance (Exodus 20:8-11, Exodus 35:1-3)
• Animal sacrifices
  • For sin (Leviticus 4:27-35)
  • For Passover (Exodus 12:3-11)

 

So you say the Law means the Ten Cs, nothing else are we to incorporate in our lives as Christians?

 

So you are saying Christ put an end to the Law, we are under grace, so not under the Law therefore not obligated to obey it any longer, but only love is the fulfilling of the law (Romans 13:10)?

 

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Galatians 6:2

 

What does that mean. "we establish the law"?
Uphold it?

 

OK, ongoing discussion so then it is not settled in a general sense.

Let each man be fully convinced in his own mind, then.

So safe at least to say for us today: Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind and then love each other as you would be loved.

Just that is hard enough even with the Holy Spirit's help.

 

I was referring to the Old Testament Law not the issues of today.
It is as if you did not read the OP.
The Old Testament says not to commit murder.
Do you think that I would approve of it just because I thought about it and some people now say the fetus is part of the mother and therefore hers to do with as she believes?
You cut too close.

"For example...is abortion murder?....let each person be persuaded in his own mind? ???
Does not cut it."

Does not this cover your question?
"So safe at least to say for us today: Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind and then love each other as you would be loved."

I don't need head help I need heart help.

 

How can we even do the obligatory without the Spirit of God?
Then why do so many here, including me, easily get ticked off and angry?
Hard to curb natural behavior.