Moabite Ban and Slaves

[rossum]

First and foremost, the food laws. This is shown in Acts, Chapter 10 (the baptism of Cornelius - the first Gentile Christian). Peter sees a vision in which all the animals of the world are presented to him, and is told, “Slaughter and eat”. Peter protests, saying “I have never eaten anything unclean.” The voice responds, each time, replying, “What I have deemed clean, you shall not deem unclean.” This comes up again at the “Council of Jerusalem”, mentioned later in Acts.

Secondly, required circumcision (mentioned many times in Paul’s letters, but also in the aforementioned “Council of Jerusalem”).

Thirdly, daily sacrificial offerings by the OT priesthood (and the entire OT priesthood, for that matter) - not only is it currently impossible due to the destruction of the Temple, but it’s mentioned in the Letter to the Hebrews as being replaced by Jesus’s One Holy Sacrifice of the cross.

There are, of course, others, but these are the three that come first to my mind.

Thank you. I would add the abolition of stoning to death for adultery as another obvious one. That still leaves a great many other OT laws: men not shaving, the forbidding of cotton-polyester mix clothes, the penalties for working on the Sabbath and many others.

Some are still followed by Christians while others are not. It appears that parts of the Old Law are ignored, without Biblical justification. There is an obvious inconsistency here in the different treatment of different parts of the Old Law.

rossum

 

[openmind77]

It doesn’t matter what different people think, it matters what God says. God’s laws executed through human agency were only for the OT Jews, and that’s it. Nowhere else are God’s laws executed through human agency, and I challenge you to show me one place in Scripture where it says otherwise. The only place you may be able to find would be Rev. 11 with the two witnesses, so we’ll make one exception there and that’s it. Therefore, other than the two witnesses and the OT Jews there is no room for human agency in the execution of God’s law.

You haven’t read the New Testament very carefully then.

All this is quite interesting! So everything that Israelis did before Christ is OK, because it was actually God using them to do it - like slavery, executing homosexuals, ethnic cleansing, murdering babies etc. When did all this stuff become bad - after Jesus was born or after the time of his crucifixion (or maybe only after he was resurrected?).

So all those who committed these atrocities before that day when God changed all the rules, are in heaven now and those who did them after that date are damned?

BTW, how about today’s Israelis - which rules are they supposed to follow?

 

[StrawberryJam]

Thank you. I would add the abolition of stoning to death for adultery as another obvious one. That still leaves a great many other OT laws: men not shaving, the forbidding of cotton-polyester mix clothes, the penalties for working on the Sabbath and many others.

Some are still followed by Christians while others are not. It appears that parts of the Old Law are ignored, without Biblical justification. There is an obvious inconsistency here in the different treatment of different parts of the Old Law.

rossum

Inconsistency with the bible?
You must be joshing or something.