New Testament ?

[Atwood]

A lot can be said on this, but the Law of Moses was only given to Israel. It was in force until the cross; Christ fulfilled it perfectly. God gave Israel laws, but to the Church He sent letters.

Of course some of the law is of universal application, as Love God with all your heart (etc.) & love neighbor as self (Leviticus). What is repeated to the Church applies to us. Animal sacrifices are not given to the Church. The default is that the Law does not apply. Exceptions come when the rule is obviously of universal importance as based on God's nature (be holy for I am holy) or by a universal statement accompanying the law (as we find BTW in Leviticus 18 -- the laws there were violated by Gentiles who never had the law, yet God punished them for those abominations).

The bottom line is that God cares that we love others & is really not concerned that we plink religious tiddlywinks or croquet moralistic doilies.

 

[4enlightment]

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. -Mathew 5:17

I'm confused, why don't we go by the Old Testament laws? And can someone explain the New Covenant?

There were certain rituals that must be done if someone had violated one of the laws; and so Jesus perform them all for us, even the one that says that," the wages of sin is death".

Exodus 32:33 The Lord replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.

Ezekiel 183 “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel. 4 For everyone belongs to me, the parent as well as the child—both alike belong to me. The one who sins is the one who will die.

But only one thing, God could not destroy all of us since we all had sinned as the way Job couldn't do. So accordingly to the covenant, the one that has violated the covenant must die, and so it has been taking care of.

Matthew 16:21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

 

[sassylady]

The old covenant was about man doing his part so God would do His, but the new covenant is God does for us because of His love and the Blood of Jesus, not because we do anything to deserve it.

Many of the things we do after salvation is due to the leading of God's Spirit, which would not cause us to break many of the laws. We aren't perfect and still do.

More often than not people do not follow many of the other laws, like the dietary ones. Doctors now know why we shouldn't eat the foods that were forbidden. Though it is not necessary for our Salvation to keep those, it would not hurt us to avoid the foods God forbid.

 

[Free-To-Be]

The old covanant is the new covanant consealed,
The New Covanant is the old covanant relevealed.

PIck the bones out of that baby.