Soyeong
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Those all violate the commandments of Jesus. The Gentiles were never, ever under the Ten Commandments before or After Jesus. Those were part of a contract that was EXCLUSIVELY between Hebrews and YHWH.
Christ made a NEW contract, with all who would follow. He gave a clear set of moral laws that was altogether more embracing than the law of Sinai, because rendered very simply.
And he didn't give the judgments to the judges, or the Urim and Thummim. His law is simpler and really quite different.
If Gentiles have never been under God's law, then they have never sinned or been in need or a redeemer. While Gentiles were never under the Old Covenant, that does not mean that they are free to do what God has said in His law is sin. Messiah certainly made a New Covenant, but the covenant involves God writing His law on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33), so we are still to obey the same law. Morality is in regard to what we ought to do, and we ought to obey God, so all of God's laws are inherently moral laws and God's moral character did not change between any of His covenants. Messiah did not add any brand new laws or subtract any old laws, otherwise he would have sinned (Deuteronomy 4:2) and would have been disqualified from being our savior. In 1 John 2:4-6, instructing us to obey Messiah's commands was associated with instructing us to walking in the same way that he walked, and he walked in perfect obedience to the law. He didn't command one thing and live out something different, but rather he taught to obey the law both by word and by example, and we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22). He also was not in disagreement with the Father or the Spirit about what conduct we should have, but rather that his teachers were not his own, but that of the Father (John 7:16) and that he only did the Father's will (John 6:38). Saying that the law is different is like saying that God changed because the law is based off of His character.
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