I need a New Testament verse that confirms this. For surely if it is as important as you say, then the New Testament believer will have a clear verse that conveys these thoughts you have.
Then why did Jesus say to Peter, he that lives by the sword shall die by the sword if he was not a soldier?
Does building an Ark still apply for believers today?
No, God commanded Noah and his family to build an Ark. There are different commands for different people thru out time.
The story of Noah points to Jesus Christ.
Just as the OT law points to Jesus Christ. For it was a school master that brings us to Christ.
Not true. A person can die from not eating. But if you were to give them food even just one time, it would keep them alive.
No, Jesus cleanses us from all sin when we confess of our sins and sets back upright and clean again with no record of us having done wrong.
Jesus rebuke was not in reference to hunting, though. So your comparison here doesn't work, my friend.
He was warning people that those who retaliate out of anger and hatred, will always retaliate that way.
We are first to consider the consequences, and not just jump and retaliate from that anger. Think first before acting.
He was not actually saying Peter lived by the sword, and once again he was not a soldier.
He was a fisherman, then a disciple/apostle of the Lord. Nothing says he was called to be anything but a spiritual soldier.
What Jesus was saying to Peter is if you go that route, you let that life style drive how you live your life and will affect future areas in your life.
Instance those who commit a crime, and go to prison. Now their future is affected by how much harder getting a job and living a normal life again becomes to them. You live by the consequences of your actions.
I know you will die from not eating, but if I don't eat pizza but once in awhile I am not living by it. For I can still live because there is many other foods I can eat.
Noah building the ark, has nothing to do with God's moral values.
That just showed obedience to God when told to do something.
Knowing right from wrong do to God's moral teaching, and not doing wrong but living in love do apply.
So we know murder is wrong, so we know not to murder.
We know adultery is wrong, so we know not to commit adultery, and so on and so on............
The laws that do not apply from the OT is the written ordinances of the mosaic law.
Yes Jesus does cleanse us from sins, but you must repent ( turn away ) from them and asked forgiveness of those sins and then for future ones to. But this does not give you the right to sin, for it makes it clear if you live in willful sin you will not be saved.
