Clear enough no I don't think so, the Ten Commandments are related to one another the outline a vision for community in concrete practical terms. They don't address every situation in detail they are, after all, just ten brief statements, but they point the way to living together in healthy community.
are you released not held accountable for cheating on a spouse, NO.
are you released to murder freely, NO
can you have more than one God, NO
can you bare false witness, NO
Can you dishonor your parents, NO
clear enough to me.
are you released not held accountable for cheating on a spouse, NO.
are you released to murder freely, NO
can you have more than one God, NO
can you bare false witness, NO
Can you dishonor your parents, NO
clear enough to me.
However the New covenant confirms that there are commandments that are a part of its ethic and they correspond to NINE of the TEN commandments with the conspicuous exception being the command to observe the Sabbath.
This distinction is not an exercise in straining gnats.
A huge amount of heretical doctrines (very evident on this forum) claim that all, or part of the Torah is still binding on New covenant believers, however this cannot be since it is impossible to separate the Torah from the Sinaitic covenant.
By definition New covenant believers are not party to the Sinaitic covenant.
Even a casual overview of the NT shows that New covenant believers are not bereft of ethical and moral imperative but the emphasis is so completely different.
Obedience to the Torah was the fundamental mark of one who was party to the Sinatic covenant!
However New covenant believers are party to the New covenant exclusively by grace through faith.
The moral and ethical imperatives found that are binding on New covenant believers do not form the entrance-way to the New covenant in the way that observance of the Torah forms the entrance-way to the Sinaitic covenant.
The highest expression of the ethic that New covenant believers are to follow is found in Gal 5:22-23, also known as the fruit of the Spirit - and it ends in this way: "Against such there is no law." Gal 5:23
The reason why?
It is impossible to legislate love!
The key point to appreciate is that any moral or ethical command to the New covenant believer is consequent on one ALREADY being a New covenant believer, not a pass/fail test for entrance, and not a pass/fail test for remaining in the covenant.
Our behaviour as New covenant believers cannot be legislated since it is based on love.
Consider 1 John 4:19 "We love Him because He first loved us."
To those who believe that they can behave in any way that want to as New covenant believers because we are not under the Torah, entirely miss the point that our adherence to the ethics and morality of the New covenant is not at all based on legislation but on relationship, a love relationship with God!
I get that I have addressed issues broader than those than those addressed in your post, but I felt that a broad foundation was the best way to give the answer...
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