Christians? Did Jesus excuse Christians from the old testament rules? What to eat, # of wives, female status?

It seems as though you may have answered your own question. Jewish Fundamentalists are not Christians and Christians are not Jewish Fundamentalists.

Christ came to fulfill the Law and therefore qualify to serve as ransom for the wages of our sin = death. For those who have Christ shall have eternal life.

Jesus stated that the greatest commandment is "love the Lord with all your heart, mind, and strength." The second greatest is "love your neighbor as yourself."

Everything else hangs off those two.

Blessings.

The Old Testament laws applied to God's people, the Israelites and the enemies they battled.

When Jesus came upon the earth, He brought grace. and righteousness.

Seeing there were no Christians until Jesus had his disciples the first question is a moot point,

Jewish people by the way, don't believe that Jesus has returned yet, and many still live under law awaiting their Messiah.

In reading down the answers given so far, I see that there is an article about cannabilism.? This was during the times when God allowed their land to be overrun by their enemies

Given my understanding about God, He doesn't make idle statements and judgement will be set on those who sit in the seat of mockers and scoffers.In All the O.T statements need to be read fairly and honestly taking into account the lead up to the verses on either side, so that what you are reading is an overall conclusion.

In Revelation 2:20 Jesus has the following to say about Jezebel....an OT queen who practised witchcraft and child sacrifice..." I have given her time to repent of her immorality but she is unwilling. So I will cast her on a bed of suffering and I will make those who commit adultery with her, suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. I will strike her children dead."

So even though the OT has relevance to the NT a lot of what you have written about happened at a time in history when God was revered as the God of the Jewish people.

Leviticus is about the fact that Gods people must be Holy , as He is Holy. A book of laws, concerning consecration, holiness, detailed regulations regarding festivals,offerings, religious rituals and worship. A lot of these laws are still current today for devout jews.

Also, as matter of fact, if there were no sons to inherit a father's property, his daughters could petition the judges of Israel to become the inheritors, instead.

I find it strange that Christians 'strain at a gnat' to justify Jesus with "Jewish scripture". Why are they using altered texts of other peoples scripture to somehow prove their beliefs? Seeing Jesus in every verse they like and often taking the texts out of context and sometimes only part of a sentence (and if you read further, it may disprove their point). They must first look at the changes made to the 1st Greek text made for the Ptolemy's which then also show up in the NT. Then why did the "ebionites" come out with the Stephanus and then another greek version in the 2nd century c.e. and differs very little from the previous versions, except for most all the verses quoted in the NT? Jews said the C's changed the text, but the C's said no and accused the Masoretes of taking all references to Christ out of the bible. Until finally, the Qumran texts showed it was not the J's who changed those verses. And we must not forget Jerome who justified his changes by saying the original Greek copyists were more asleep than awake and why not change the text to make it more suitable for Christians. Shouldn't Christians be looking Jesus in writings after they believe Jesus was born? Why aren't many talking about the many letters, apocylypses, other writings, and gospels by Pilate, the Roman Senate, Mary, Mary M, Thomas, Didymous Thomas-the twin of Jesus, Judas, Naasenes, Nazareans, Marcion, Proteus Peringeus, Simon Magus, Dosithesus, Valentinus, Pseudo-Clementine, Docetists, Diognetius, Meleagar the Cynic from Gadara, Dionysus statute in the ruins of a theater in the big city of Sepporis at the edge of a little hamlet of "Nazareth".etc. They should try to find Jesus in the NT. Maybe the Jesus of gospels or the other Jesus in the 7 'authentic' or the other inauthentic Pauline letters; by either the Paul of Acts or the one of Galatians. Which gospel Jesus, the one in Matthew or the one in John, or Luke or Mark. And which of the Jesuses in each of those gospels or the one in Q? The Cynic, the Stoic, the Pharisee, the Saducee, or the Zealot Jesus or the one from Qumran?

We as Christians are still obligated to keep some Levitical laws. Some are abolished and some aren't. For example, things like the Passover, and those Feast days and the sacrifical systems were all abolished. Christ was the end of that. Then, if you were to go and read Leviticus further you would see that not all of those laws are abolished. Take Leviticus 18, for example, who would dispose of that? The bible tells us that. One user was talking about the eating of children. Deuteronomy 28 and all the other books and chapters clearly tells us that the eating of the children will occur, not because God wants it, but because of the deprivations that the enemy would inflict on Israel during the siege. God bless you.

First of all Bruno, get a life!!!! You were never truly a believer in the first place and you are taking things out of context. How did you ever teach anybody? Bad bad spirits taken over your empty vessel.

As Christians we are not under the Law of the Jews. It might be a good to follow some of those laws but they are imperfect. They wont give you salvation. We could never obey them completley. God sent Jesus to be our perfect sacrafice. With Him there is no law. He was crucified, paid the price for our sins, and cheated death, then assended back to His throne. Cool, Ha.People who followed the law and died before Jesus came are considered asleep and will be judged according to thier works. This was the best they could offer God at that time.They will one day inherit the new earth, after the old one is destroyed by Armagedon, after the rapture of the church and the tribulation period, for a thousand years or the millinium period. Christians are already forgiven by Christ.

God made a covenant with is choosen people a group of people the Jews, Jesus fullfilled the covenant and started a new covenant that included everyone not just the Jews. The New Testament is a new covenant with individuals not a group of people. This new covenant does not include the kosher laws and many of the laws of the Old Testament. The New covenant does include all laws that fit under love thy God and love thy neighbor. This covers the 10 commandments. Paul and Peter had a big discussion about this because Peter wanted gentiles to become Jews and Paul set him straight on the issue.

This is a moral question that I also find fascinating.

Clearly, in Matthew 5:17-20, Jesus tells his followers that he is not abandoning the Old Testament law (check biblegateway.com for scriptures). This would permit the mighty, polyamorous appetites of David, even in modern America.

However, the zeal with which most Christian Literalists pursue policies for "one man, one woman" comes from the letter to Titus, 1:6, in which Paul charges Titus to find elders that were blameless and the husband of only one wife.

As for the laws of Leviticus, most bad Christians just simply ignore them, and the good ones sidestep by quoting Hebrews 8:10, where it is said that God has written his law on the hearts of men.

I hope that gives you a good place to start!

The key to understanding this issue is knowing that the Old Testament law was given to the nation of Israel, not to Christians. Some of the laws were to make the Israelites know how to obey and please God (the Ten Commandments for example), some of them were to show them how to worship God (the sacrificial system), some of them were to simply make the Israelites different from other nations (the food and clothing rules). None of the Old Testament law applies to us today. When Jesus died on the cross, He put an end to the Old Testament law (Romans 10:4; Galatians 3:23-25; Ephesians 2:15).

In place of the Old Testament law, we are under the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2) which is to, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments” (Matthew 22:37-40). If we do these two things, we will be fulfilling all that Christ wants for us to do, “This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3). Technically, the Ten Commandments are not even applicable to Christians. However, 9 of the Ten Commandments are repeated in the New Testament (all except the command to observe the Sabbath day). Obviously, if we are loving God we won't be worshipping other gods or worshipping idols. If we are loving our neighbors, we won't be murdering them, lying to them, committing adultery against them, or coveting what belongs to them. So, we are not under any of the requirements of the Old Testament law. We are to love God and love our neighbors. If we do those two things faithfully, everything else will fall into place.

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Remember Jesus picked corn on Sunday. The scribes were beside themselves, Sunday ,a day of rest and worship. Jesus said that Man wasn`t made for the Sabbath but the Sabbath was made for man. The old rules were so as no one could have stayed a christian because you would end up breaking one or another. They were un necessary. What does it matter if a person puts new cloth on an old garment. and lots of other rules,none have a thing to do with a loving God and our walk with him.The more educated man became the more he realized that God didn`t need these things. It was like a person had to do things to prove his self worthy of salvation. We finally realized we won`t ever be worthy. God saves us because he loves us and that is a miracle in its self because look at what mankind does.

No he didn't. There is a scripture in which Saint Paul is shown a sheet full of creepy, crawly animals and things forbidden by Jewish law and he is told to eat. He refuses. This vision happens 3 times and then he eats. He is then called to dinner to the home of a Gentile for dinner who definitely didn't follow kosher laws. Apparently God was saying that food is not as important and changing the heart of a man.