Your post doesn't sound like you're a seeker.Christ altered NOTHING concerning 'the law' for God's chosen people. He simply fulfilled His Father's LAW.
God has NEVER offered commandments that are void now. He simply chose a certain people to be HIS CHOSEN. All are NOT His chosen.
But I will offer this: God has NEVER offered what is BEST for His children and then 'changed His mind'. That is a ridiculous concept and only able to exist among those children that are insistent upon REBELLION.
If God gave instruction that was true five thousand years ago, it is just as true today as it ever will be.
The difference between the LAW delivered to the Hebrews and the covenant that we are ALL under now is 'sacrifice'. They were required to offer physical sacrifice of the 'material' and now we have Christ as the ULTIMATE sacrifice. We have a form of forgiveness that didn't exist BEFORE Christ.
But what we NEED TO DO hasn't ever changed. What is 'righteous' will never change except in the minds and hearts of those that 'don't get it'.
Both sides that FOCUS on the opposite sides of this issue are confused. It is not 'one way or the other'. It is BOTH sides balanced equally in understanding.
There are laws that were given the Hebrews/Jews SPECIFIC to the Hebrews/Jews. But the ten commandments were NOT THAT LAW.
The ten commandments are as valid today as EVER. The ONLY difference is that we have a different FORM of forgiveness than what was necessary before.
Breaking certain commandments given to the Hebrews/Jews often required immediate DEATH. Death by STONING was the most common.
We are NOT under that form of punishment today. Christ DIED for those sins so that we do not have to. That was the MAIN reason that the 'temple' was destroyed. It was mandatory for crimes requiring the death penalty to be determined IN the temple by those that were the LEADERS in the temple.
So today we are still to FOLLOW the truth regardless of God finding a BETTER way to deal with our SINS.
It is still wrong to steal, bear false witness, create graven images, covet the property of others, take the Lord's name in vain etc,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,. The ONLY difference is the price we are to pay NOW verses then. it is as WRONG to break these commandments TODAY as it was the day they were delivered to God's PEOPLE.
Each and every person that professes to be a follower of God through Christ should DO what they have been instructed to do and NOT DO what they have been instructed not to do.
Food laws, cleanliness laws, these were given long ago to a small group of people in order to ensure their survival. Do they apply today? They certainly still have the ability to protect people from sickness and disease.
But we, as a PEOPLE, are no longer BOUND to such laws 'as sin'. They were fulfilled in Christ.
Peter struggled with the concept. It was hard for him to 'let go' of what he had spent his lifetime believing. It took a direct vision from God to convince him of the 'truth'.
But what God revealed as 'righteous' through His commandments is no LESS righteous today than it was thousands of years ago when delivered. And the punishment for sin is still DEATH. Christ fulfilled that punishment for those willing to accept it.
But that doesn't FREE us TO sin, it frees us FROM sin.
Blessings,
MEC
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